Utility Based Scheduling for Multi-UAV Search System in Disaster Scenarios

This paper proposes a scheduling method for unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) search systems in disaster scenarios, which considers processing time and transmission time of image data acquired by UAVs. We present the utility-based problem formulation that ensures the freshness of individual obtained piece of information while obtaining as many pieces of information as possible for a certain period. Simulation results validate the proposed method.