新算法让上百机器人在大网格高效无冲突覆盖,适合真实场景部署。
Large-Scale Multirobot Coverage Path Planning on Grids With Path Deconfliction
- 直接在原始网格上规划路径,避开粗粒度建模缺陷。
- 支持部分阻塞的2×2区域,100个机器人可在256×256网格中分钟级完成任务。
- 首次融合多智能体路径规划,自动解决碰撞并考虑转向成本。
本文研究在4邻接2D网格G上的多机器人覆盖路径规划(MCPP),目标是为多个机器人生成路径以完全覆盖G的所有单元格。传统方法先在四分之一粗化网格H上计算覆盖树,再通过生成树覆盖(STC)在G上生成路径,但无法处理包含部分阻塞2×2块的网格。为此,本文直接在G上重新建模问题,提出扩展生成树覆盖(ESTC)新范式,即使在含部分阻塞块的H上也能保证完整覆盖且子最优性有界。进一步提出LS-MCPP算法框架,将ESTC与三种新型邻域算子结合,在局部搜索策略下直接优化G上的路径。不同于以往工作,本方法首次引入多智能体路径规划(MAPF)技术作为后处理步骤,通过求解一种变体MAPF有效消除机器人间冲突,并支持转向成本,使解决方案更贴近实际应用。大量实验表明,该方法显著提升解的质量与效率,在256×256网格上可处理最多100个机器人,运行时间在分钟级;物理机器人验证证实其在真实环境中的可行性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We study Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) on a 4-neighbor 2D grid G, which aims to compute paths for multiple robots to cover all cells of G. Traditional approaches are limited as they first compute coverage trees on a quadrant coarsened grid H and then employ the Spanning Tree Coverage (STC) paradigm to generate paths on G, making them inapplicable to grids with partially obstructed 2x2 blocks. To address this limitation, we reformulate the problem directly on G, revolutionizing grid-based MCPP solving and establishing new NP-hardness results. We introduce Extended-STC (ESTC), a novel paradigm that extends STC to ensure complete coverage with bounded suboptimality, even when H includes partially obstructed blocks. Furthermore, we present LS-MCPP, a new algorithmic framework that integrates ESTC with three novel types of neighborhood operators within a local search strategy to optimize coverage paths directly on G. Unlike prior grid-based MCPP work, our approach also incorporates a versatile post-processing procedure that applies Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) techniques to MCPP for the first time, enabling a fusion of these two important fields in multi-robot coordination. This procedure effectively resolves inter-robot conflicts and accommodates turning costs by solving a MAPF variant, making our MCPP solutions more practical for real-world applications. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly improves solution quality and efficiency, managing up to 100 robots on grids as large as 256x256 within minutes of runtime. Validation with physical robots confirms the feasibility of our solutions under real-world conditions.
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