Review of Reliability Assessment Methods of Drone Swarm (Fleet) and a New Importance Evaluation Based Method of Drone Swarm Structure Analysis

Drones, or UAVs, are developed very intensively. There many effective applications of drones for problems monitoring, searching, detection, communication, delivery, and transportation cargo in various sectors the economy. The reliability resolution these should play a principal role. Therefore, studies encompassing analysis swarms (fleets) important. As shown this paper, drone its components is considered often. Reliability investigated less often, despite fact that cannot be performed by single require involvement several drones. In systematic review proposed. Based on review, new method quantification topological aspects considered. particular, allows computing swarm availability importance measures. Importance measures used system maintenance to indicate (drones) whose fault has most impact failure. Structural Birnbaum introduced swarms’ components. These indices defined following topologies: homogenous irredundant fleet, hot stable redundant heterogeneous fleet.