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ArticleBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Two-Echelon Unmanned Ground Vehicle Routing Problem: Extreme-Weather Goods Distribution as a Case Study.

Chuncheng Fang, Yanguang Cai, Yanlin Wu

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Article in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chuncheng FangSchool of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, No. 100, West Ring Road, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Xiaoguwei Street, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7206-6998
Yanguang CaiSchool of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, No. 100, West Ring Road, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Xiaoguwei Street, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7327-5182
Yanlin WuSchool of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, No. 100, West Ring Road, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Xiaoguwei Street, Panyu District, Guangzhou 510006, China.

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The Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province;The Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou;the Guangdong Provincial 400 Department of Education Special Innovation Research Program No. 2016A050502060 and No.2020B1010010005;No. 202206010011 and No. 2023B03J1339;No. 2022KTSCX358
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Abstract

In extreme weather conditions, the use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for material distribution enhances safety. We introduce a two-echelon unmanned ground vehicle routing problem (2E-UGVRP) and proposes a hybrid Artificial Bee Colony-Wild Horse Optimizer (HABC-WHO) algorithm to solve it. In this approach, the optimal solution obtained from the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm replaces the worst solution of the Wild Horse Optimizer. To further improve the algorithm's performance, strategies such as large neighborhood search, two-optimization (2-Opt) operation, and satellite subpath crossover are incorporated. The algorithm's effectiveness is demonstrated through the solution of 43 benchmark instances, with performance comparisons against a Genetic Algorithm (GA), Discrete Wild Horse Optimizer (DWHO), and Discrete Artificial Bee Colony-Fixed Neighborhood Search (DABC-FNS). The results clearly show the significant superiority of the proposed algorithm. Additionally, the algorithm is applied to material distribution by two-echelon UGVs under extreme weather conditions, yielding promising results. Experimental findings indicate that the algorithm exhibits strong solving capability and high precision.

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extreme weathergoods distributionhybrid artificial bee colony–wild horse optimizertwo-echelon unmanned ground vehicle routing problem

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PMID40422086
PMCPMC12109208

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