[ARTICLE] This paper talks about a tailored benders decomposition approach for last-mile delivery with autonomous robots.
by Laurent Alfandari & Ivana Ljubic (ESSEC Business School)
The authors design a decision model and a Benders decomposition approach for solving a last-mile delivery problem where a truck visits a subset of robot stations (to select) and deliveries to customers are performed from these robot stations, while minimizing a latency performance criterion (Quality of Service). The Benders algorithm outperforms all other solving methods tested on their datasets.