arXiv:2604.00428cs.RO2026-04被引 1

提出证书驱动的闭环多智能体路径规划,提升密集场景下的解质量与可扩展性。

Certificate-Driven Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Path Finding with Inheritable Factorization

  • 引入证书轨迹与舰队预算,只接受能改进证书的更新,确保求解完备性。
  • 在基准地图上,密集场景下解质量显著优于ACCBS,且有效降低群体规模。
  • 适合高密度仓储、物流等需要全局保障的多智能体协同系统。

自动化仓库和物流中的多智能体协调常被建模为多智能体路径寻找(MAPF)问题。闭环MAPF算法通过仅规划下一步并在线重规划来提升可扩展性,但有限视野视角可能短视,难以保持全局保证并利用组合结构。此问题在即时闭环冲突搜索(ACCBS)中尤为明显:其在动态扩展的有限时域上应用冲突搜索(CBS),但在有限计算预算下,密集实例可能以短活跃前缀终止。本文引入证书轨迹及其关联的舰队预算作为通用机制,用于过滤闭环更新。证书提供无冲突回退计划及剩余成本的单调上界;仅接受证书改进的更新可保证完备性。相同预算信息还诱导出一种预算受限的分解方式,实现跨时间步的全局可继承分解。将该框架应用于ACCBS,得到证书驱动的冲突搜索(CDCBS)。在基准地图上的实验表明,相比ACCBS,CDCBS在密集场景下解质量更稳定,且所提分解有效减小了有效群体规模。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-agent coordination in automated warehouses and logistics is commonly modeled as the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem. Closed-loop MAPF algorithms improve scalability by planning only the next movement and replanning online, but this finite-horizon viewpoint can be shortsighted and makes it difficult to preserve global guarantees and exploit compositional structure. This issue is especially visible in Anytime Closed-Loop Conflict-Based Search (ACCBS), which applies Conflict-Based Search (CBS) over dynamically extended finite horizons but, under finite computational budgets, may terminate with short active prefixes in dense instances. We introduce certificate trajectories and their associated fleet budget as a general mechanism for filtering closed-loop updates. A certificate provides a conflict-free fallback plan and a monotone upper bound on the remaining cost; accepting only certificate-improving updates yields completeness. The same budget information induces a budget-limited factorization that enables global, inheritable decomposition across timesteps. Instantiating the framework on ACCBS yields Certificate-Driven Conflict-Based Search (CDCBS). Experiments on benchmark maps show that CDCBS achieves more consistent solution quality than ACCBS, particularly in dense settings, while the proposed factorization reduces effective group size.

多智能体路径规划闭环控制证书机制

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