Modeling and Performance Assessment of Drone-based Food Delivery Logistics Using Colored Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets

This paper proposes a new modeling to a meal delivery system (MDS) with smart interconnected drones. The use of such Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in MDS is very much needed or even necessary in cases of delivering meals to customers located in tough-to-reach places. We use Colored Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets (CGSPN) to model and then simulate the MDS dynamic activities. The conducted simulation shows the proposed CGSPN ability to analyse the behaviour of the MDS before its actual installation.