改进机器人密集场景下的运动规划分离条件,实现高效求解。
Unlabeled Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Improved Separation Trade-offs
- 提出新算法,在更紧凑环境下仍保证多项式时间求解
- 在机器人间距2.67、障碍物间距1.67时可近似最优
- 适用于高密度机器人部署场景,对实际应用更友好
本文研究单位圆机器人在多边形环境中的无标签多机器人运动规划问题。尽管该问题通常为难解,但在合理的起始与目标位置分离条件下存在多项式时间解法。现有工作要求起始点间、目标点间距离至少为4,起始-目标距离至少3,或要求机器人与障碍物距离至少约2.236,但均未提供最优性保障。本文提出一种通用算法,可在更紧密的分离条件下取得更好权衡:当机器人间距为2.67、障碍物间距为1.67时,可实现总路径长度的多项式时间常数近似;或当机器人间距约3.291、障碍物间距约1.354时亦然。此外,还提出另一策略,在机器人间距仅需2、障碍物间距为3时即可求解。最后证明:若不假设机器人间分离,则障碍物间距至少1.5才可能存在解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We study unlabeled multi-robot motion planning for unit-disk robots in a polygonal environment. Although the problem is hard in general, polynomial-time solutions exist under appropriate separation assumptions on start and target positions. Banyassady et al. (SoCG'22) guarantee feasibility in simple polygons under start--start and target--target distances of at least $4$, and start--target distances of at least $3$, but without optimality guarantees. Solovey et al. (RSS'15) provide a near-optimal solution in general polygonal domains, under stricter conditions: start/target positions must have pairwise distance at least $4$, and at least $\sqrt{5}\approx2.236$ from obstacles. This raises the question of whether polynomial-time algorithms can be obtained in even more densely packed environments. In this paper we present a generalized algorithm that achieve different trade-offs on the robots-separation and obstacles-separation bounds, all significantly improving upon the state of the art. Specifically, we obtain polynomial-time constant-approximation algorithms to minimize the total path length when (i) the robots-separation is $2\tfrac{2}{3}$ and the obstacles-separation is $1\tfrac{2}{3}$, or (ii) the robots-separation is $\approx3.291$ and the obstacles-separation $\approx1.354$. Additionally, we introduce a different strategy yielding a polynomial-time solution when the robots-separation is only $2$, and the obstacles-separation is $3$. Finally, we show that without any robots-separation assumption, obstacles-separation of at least $1.5$ may be necessary for a solution to exist.
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