Swarm of drones are increasingly being asked to carry out missions that can't be completed by one drone. Particularly, in delivery, issues arise due to the swarm's limited flight endurance. Hence, we propose a novel formation-guided framework for selecting Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS) for delivery. A detailed study is carried out to highlight the effect of swarm formations on energy consumption. Two SDaaS selection approaches, i.e. Fixed and Adaptive, are designed considering the different formation decisions a swarm can take. The proposed framework considers extrinsic constraints including wind speed and direction. We propose SDaaS selection algorithms for each approach. Experimental results prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.
@article{arxiv.2011.06766,
title = {Formation-based Selection of Drone Swarm Services},
author = {Balsam Alkouz and Athman Bouguettaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06766},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
9 pages, 10 figures. This is an accepted paper and it is going to appear in the Proceedings of the 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (EAI MobiQuitous 2020)