用蒙特卡洛树搜索优化机器人装箱,提前看货提升效率
Effective Online 3D Bin Packing with Lookahead Parcels Using Monte Carlo Tree Search
- 结合前瞻货物信息,用MCTS动态平衡智能策略与随机策略
- 在分布偏移下性能提升超10%,实际部署平均增4%以上
- 适合物流自动化、机器人装箱场景,尤其应对突发货品变化
带机械臂的在线3D装箱对降低物流运输和人力成本至关重要。尽管深度强化学习表现优异,但在不同批次货物陆续到达导致的短期分布偏移下常失效。本文认为现代物流系统中可获取的短期前瞻信息是解决此问题的关键。我们将含前瞻货物的在线3D装箱建模为模型预测控制(MPC)问题,并将蒙特卡洛树搜索(MCTS)框架适配于此。提出动态探索先验,根据前瞻特征自动平衡学习到的强化学习策略与鲁棒随机策略;并设计辅助奖励,惩罚单次放置带来的长期空间浪费。在真实数据集上的大量实验表明,该方法持续优于现有先进基线,在分布偏移下性能提升超10%,在线部署平均提高4%,最佳情况超过8%,验证了框架的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Online 3D Bin Packing (3D-BP) with robotic arms is crucial for reducing transportation and labor costs in modern logistics. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown strong performance, it often fails to adapt to real-world short-term distribution shifts, which arise as different batches of goods arrive sequentially, causing performance drops. We argue that the short-term lookahead information available in modern logistics systems is key to mitigating this issue, especially during distribution shifts. We formulate online 3D-BP with lookahead parcels as a Model Predictive Control (MPC) problem and adapt the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) framework to solve it. Our framework employs a dynamic exploration prior that automatically balances a learned RL policy and a robust random policy based on the lookahead characteristics. Additionally, we design an auxiliary reward to penalize long-term spatial waste from individual placements. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving over 10\% gains under distributional shifts, 4\% average improvement in online deployment, and up to more than 8\% in the best case--demonstrating the effectiveness of our framework.
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