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Qualifying Exam

Cyber-Physical Systems for Logistics Delivery

 

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Monday, May 15, 2023, 11:00am - 01:00pm

 

The popularity of the e-commerce has promoted the rapid development of the logistics industry in recent years. As an important step in logistics, last-mile delivery from delivery stations to customers’ addresses is now mainly finished by couriers. How to measure the courier’s workload for last-mile delivery and design efficient delivery schemes are crucial for logistics platforms. As a result, we first design, implement, and deploy a nationwide homogeneous order grouping system called FHOG for improving the accuracy of homogeneous order grouping in last-mile delivery for fair courier’s workload assessment. FHOG is deployed in one of the largest logistics companies and the evaluation results show FHOG performs better than the state-of-the-practice. The last-mile delivery process may repeat several times a day if orders arrive at delivery stations in batches, leading to low delivery efficiency. We then design a data-driven relay courier scheduling system, RCS, to reduce the courier idle time and improve the efficiency, which includes: 1) a delivery courier’s mobility prediction model; and 2) an attention-based sequence-to-sequence route generation model. Evaluation results with real-world data show that RCS reduces average relay order delivery time effectively compared with state-of-the-art methods.

 

Speaker: Wenjun Lyu

Location : CoRE 305

Committee

Professor Desheng Zhang (Advisor)

Professor Hao Wang

Professor Dong Deng

Professor Xiong Fan

 

Event Type: Qualifying Exam

Abstract: See above

Organization

Rutgers University

School of Arts & Sciences

Department of Computer Science

 

Contact  Professor Desheng Zhang