Dynamic Matching and Management Method of Multiple Pilots and UAVs for M-to-N Operations

Restrictions on the flight of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as drones have recently become more relaxed, and one-to-many (N) operation, in which a single remote pilot controls multiple UAVs, is now allowed. This paper proposes a method to dynamically determine and manage the combination of multiple remote pilots and UAVs in a way that balances the workload to enable many (M)-to-many (N) operation. The theoretical study evaluates the effectiveness of human resources utilization as the reliability of the organization vs. the reliability of human resources and shows that the effectiveness of human resources utilization can be improved by the proposed method.