{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-team-orienteering-problem-for-fixed-wing","title":"A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for a Team Orienteering Problem with Fixed-Wing Drones","arxiv_id":"1912.04353","date":"2019-12-09","proceeding":null,"authors":["Kaarthik Sundar","Sujeevraja Sanjeevi","Christopher Montez"],"abstract":"This paper formulates a team orienteering problem with multiple fixed-wing drones and develops a branch-and-price algorithm to solve the problem to optimality. Fixed-wing drones, unlike rotary drones, have kinematic constraints associated with them, thereby preventing them to make on-the-spot turns and restricting them to a minimum turn radius. This paper presents the implications of these constraints on the drone routing problem formulation and proposes a systematic technique to address them in the context of the team orienteering problem. Furthermore, a novel branch-and-price algorithm with branching techniques specific to the constraints imposed due to fixed-wing drones are proposed. Extensive computational experiments on benchmark instances corroborating the effectiveness of the algorithms are also presented.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04353v7","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.04353v7.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-team-orienteering-problem-for-fixed-wing","repo_url":"https://github.com/sujeevraja/fixed-wing-drone-orienteering","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"a-team-orienteering-problem-for-fixed-wing","repo_url":"https://github.com/kaarthiksundar/fairmtsp","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}