Beta
365584

Reinforcement Learning-Driven Enhancement of Medical Waste Collection within Capacity-Homogeneous Vehicle Routing

Article

Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in various fields, including the management of hazardous medical waste. Medical waste poses an economic burden and a risk to public health, and it should be disposed of with care, preferably in areas far from residential areas. Data was collected on waste generated by 15 government hospitals in Menoufia Governorate and a single disposal site in Kafr Dawood, along with a central collection point for waste transport vehicles. This study addresses the issue of limited-capacity vehicle routing, which is considered a complex problem (NP-hard). Specific vehicles are designated to collect waste from hospitals and transport it to the disposal center, with the goal of finding the shortest route while maximizing the vehicle's capacity, which is limited to three tons. Reinforcement learning techniques were developed, treating the vehicle as an agent trained to choose the shortest, least costly route between hospitals. The SARSA algorithm was implemented and improved. Solutions include SARSA, Dijkstra, knapsack dynamic programming, and hybrid approaches that combine SARSA with Dijkstra and SARSA with knapsack dynamic programming. The result shows that the hybrid approach between SARSA and knapsack dynamic programming is the most effective, as it reduces the number of vehicles used for waste transport and maximizes the vehicle's capacity, determining the shortest routes between all hospitals. Finally, transportation costs were calculated to complete the mathematical model for medical waste management.

DOI

10.21608/ijci.2024.288957.1163

Keywords

Reinforcement Learning, Closed Capacity Vehicle Routing Problem, Dijkstra, knapsack problem

Authors

First Name

Norhan

Last Name

Khallaf

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Faculty of artificial intelligence, Menofia University

Email

nourhan.khalaf@ci.menofia.edu.eg

City

Shebin El-Kom

Orcid

-

First Name

Osama

Last Name

Abdel-Raouf

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Operations Research and Decision Support Department, Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

osamaabd@ci.menofia.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohy

Last Name

Hadhoud

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of information technology, Faculty of computers and Information, Menofia University

Email

mmhadhoud@ci.menofia.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

ِِAhmed

Last Name

Kafafy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Operations Research & DSS Dept., Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

ahmedkafafy80@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

11

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

48570

Issue Date

2024-07-01

Receive Date

2024-05-12

Publish Date

2024-06-01

Page Start

79

Page End

94

Print ISSN

1687-7853

Online ISSN

2735-3257

Link

https://ijci.journals.ekb.eg/article_365584.html

Detail API

https://ijci.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=365584

Order

7

Type

Original Article

Type Code

877

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

IJCI. International Journal of Computers and Information

Publication Link

https://ijci.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Reinforcement Learning-Driven Enhancement of Medical Waste Collection within Capacity-Homogeneous Vehicle Routing

Details

Type

Article

Created At

24 Dec 2024