arXiv:2511.06471cs.AIcs.RO2025-11AAAI被引 3

提出GHOST框架,高效求解凸集图上的旅行商问题。

GHOST: Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem on Graphs of Convex Sets

  • 分层架构结合组合路径搜索与凸优化
  • 比统一混合整数凸规划快多个数量级
  • 适合高阶连续性约束的复杂轨迹规划

我们研究了定义在凸集图(GCS)上的新版本旅行商问题(GCS-TSP),该模型将配置空间分解为凸区域,并通过稀疏图连接,适用于轨迹规划。在此设定中,边成本不固定,取决于每个凸区域内的具体路径选择,导致经典TSP方法失效。本文提出GHOST,一种分层框架,通过组合组合路径搜索与凸轨迹优化,实现对GCS-TSP的最优求解。该方法系统地探索由GCS诱导的完全图上的路径,采用新型抽象路径展开算法计算可接受的下界,指导高层(路径)与低层(可行GCS路径)的最优优先搜索。这些下界提供强大剪枝能力,提升搜索效率并减少不必要的凸优化调用。我们证明了GHOST能保证最优性,并提出了适用于时间敏感场景的有界次优变体。实验表明,对于简单情形,GHOST比统一混合整数凸规划基线快多个数量级;在涉及高阶连续性约束和不完整GCS的复杂轨迹规划问题上,其具有唯一处理能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study GCS-TSP, a new variant of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) defined over a Graph of Convex Sets (GCS) -- a powerful representation for trajectory planning that decomposes the configuration space into convex regions connected by a sparse graph. In this setting, edge costs are not fixed but depend on the specific trajectory selected through each convex region, making classical TSP methods inapplicable. We introduce GHOST, a hierarchical framework that optimally solves the GCS-TSP by combining combinatorial tour search with convex trajectory optimization. GHOST systematically explores tours on a complete graph induced by the GCS, using a novel abstract-path-unfolding algorithm to compute admissible lower bounds that guide best-first search at both the high level (over tours) and the low level (over feasible GCS paths realizing the tour). These bounds provide strong pruning power, enabling efficient search while avoiding unnecessary convex optimization calls. We prove that GHOST guarantees optimality and present a bounded-suboptimal variant for time-critical scenarios. Experiments show that GHOST is orders-of-magnitude faster than unified mixed-integer convex programming baselines for simple cases and uniquely handles complex trajectory planning problems involving high-order continuity constraints and an incomplete GCS.

路径规划凸优化旅行商问题机器人

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