We propose a novel framework for the allocation of drone swarms for delivery services known as Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS). The allocation framework ensures minimum cost (aka maximum profit) to drone swarm providers while meeting the time requirement of service consumers. The constraints in the delivery environment (e.g., limited recharging pads) are taken into consideration. We propose three algorithms to select the best allocation of drone swarms given a set of requests from multiple consumers. We conduct a set of experiments to evaluate and compare the efficiency of these algorithms considering the provider's profit, feasibility, requests fulfilment, and drones utilization level.

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以提供商为中心的无人机群服务分配

我们提出了一种新的框架，用于为交付服务分配无人机群，称为基于群的无人机即服务 (SDaaS)。分配框架确保无人机群提供者的最低成本（也就是最大利润），同时满足服务消费者的时间要求。考虑了交付环境中的限制（例如，有限的充电垫）。我们提出了三种算法，以根据来自多个消费者的一组请求来选择无人机群的最佳分配。我们进行了一组实验，以评估和比较这些算法的效率，考虑提供商的利润、可行性、请求满足和无人机使用水平。