Cloud-native optimisation of UAV logistics for rural emergency healthcare under data scarcity
摘要
A cloud-native distributed pipeline integrating statistical synthetic data generation with adaptive routing and infrastructure optimisation is proposed for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based emergency medical logistics in data-sparse rural environments. The synthetic data generation component employs a kernel density estimation (KDE)-based statistical model that learns mission attribute distributions from real operational data without requiring neural generative architectures, making it well-suited for data-sparse deployment contexts. The framework combines a three-layer edge-cloud architecture with stochastic demand augmentation, enabling scalable mission orchestration and real-time reconfiguration across distributed UAV networks. A dataset of 611 real-world missions was expanded to 3,055 simulated events through synthetic generation achieving a distributional deviation of 0.0093. Evaluated in simulation across 3,000 routing instances, the framework achieves a mission success rate of 98.47%, a mean reroute delay of 0.91 minutes (an 88% reduction relative to the best published real-world benchmark), and near-optimal routing within 1.2% of the shortest-path optimum. Shortest-path solvers (Dijkstra, A