Path planning in the multi-robot system refers to calculating a set of actions for each robot, which will move each robot to its goal without conflicting with other robots. Lately, the research topic has received significant attention for its extensive applications, such as airport ground, drone swarms, and automatic warehouses. Despite these available research results, most of the existing investigations are concerned with the cases of robots with a fixed movement speed without considering uncertainty. Therefore, in this work, we study the problem of path-planning in the multi-robot automatic warehouse context, which considers the time-varying and uncertain robots' movement speed. Specifically, the path-planning module searches a path with as few conflicts as possible for a single agent by calculating traffic cost based on customarily distributed conflict probability and combining it with the classic A* algorithm. However, this probability-based method cannot eliminate all conflicts, and speed's uncertainty will constantly cause new conflicts. As a supplement, we propose the other two modules. The conflict detection and re-planning module chooses objects requiring re-planning paths from the agents involved in different types of conflicts periodically by our designed rules. Also, at each step, the scheduling module fills up the agent's preserved queue and decides who has a higher priority when the same element is assigned to two agents simultaneously. Finally, we compare the proposed algorithm with other algorithms from academia and industry, and the results show that the proposed method is validated as the best performance.
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量子计算预计会对许多领域产生变革性的影响,但是其对行业问题的实际部署却没有得到充实的解放。我们专注于将量子计算应用于行业的运营管理问题,尤其是供应链管理。供应链管理中的许多问题都涉及大型州和行动空间,并在经典计算机上构成计算挑战。我们开发了一种量化的政策迭代算法来解决库存控制问题并证明其有效性。我们还深入讨论了在短期内实施该量子算法的硬件要求和潜在挑战。我们的模拟和实验由IBM Qiskit和Qbraid系统提供动力。
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许多实际优化问题涉及不确定的参数,这些参数具有概率分布,可以使用上下文特征信息来估算。与首先估计不确定参数的分布然后基于估计优化目标的标准方法相反,我们提出了一个\ textIt {集成条件估计 - 优化}(ICEO)框架,该框架估计了随机参数的潜在条件分布同时考虑优化问题的结构。我们将随机参数的条件分布与上下文特征之间的关系直接建模,然后以与下游优化问题对齐的目标估算概率模型。我们表明,我们的ICEO方法在适度的规律性条件下渐近一致,并以概括范围的形式提供有限的性能保证。在计算上,使用ICEO方法执行估计是一种非凸面且通常是非差异的优化问题。我们提出了一种通用方法,用于近似从估计的条件分布到通过可区分函数的最佳决策的潜在非差异映射,这极大地改善了应用于非凸问题的基于梯度的算法的性能。我们还提供了半代理案例中的多项式优化解决方案方法。还进行了数值实验,以显示我们在不同情况下的方法的经验成功,包括数据样本和模型不匹配。
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