A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Re-allocating Drone Swarm Services

We propose a novel framework for the re-allocation of drone swarms for delivery services known as Swarm-based Drone-as-a-Service (SDaaS). The re-allocation framework ensures 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 utilize reinforcement learning (RL) to select the best allocation and scheduling of drone swarms given a set of requests from multiple consumers. We conduct a set of experiments to evaluate and compare the efficiency of the proposed approach considering the provider's profit and run-time efficiency.
Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, accepted and to be published in the proceedings of 19th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021)