提出统一分支定界法求解凸集图上的斯坦纳旅行商问题,支持连续轨迹与动态规划。
Unified Branch-and-Bound Search for the Steiner Traveling Salesman Problem on Graphs of Convex Sets

- 基于根路径前缀的统一分支定界框架,处理无限解空间
- 30秒内完成所有基准测试,平均最优性间隙28.1%~29.7%
- 适用于移动机器人巡检任务中的动作顺序与轨迹联合优化
我们形式化了图上凸集(GCS)的斯坦纳旅行商问题(Steiner-TSP),旨在寻找一条通过必经凸集的最小成本闭合轨迹,允许可选经过顶点和重复访问。为探索由此产生的无限解空间,提出一种基于根路径前缀的统一分支定界搜索。加性下界图代价约束已承诺前缀,而切割分离的连通流松弛用于估计剩余目标访问及返回根节点的最低成本。在统一正成本假设下,最佳优先遍历在无初始解的情况下有限步终止,深度优先遍历在存在有限初始解时亦可终止。对于用户指定的因子 $ε/geq1$,全局下界可证明任一策略的当前解成本不超过全局最优的 $ε$ 倍。我们进一步展示了联合感知模式、访问顺序与连续轨迹选择在移动操作器巡检任务中的应用,包括在线性时序逻辑有限迹(LTL$_f$)中表达的动作先后关系。两种遍历策略在所有基准实例上均于30秒内找到可行解,平均认证最优性间隙分别为28.1%和29.7%,而两个近期基线仅在约一半实例上成功。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We formalize the Steiner Traveling Salesman Problem (Steiner-TSP) on Graphs of Convex Sets (GCS), which seeks a minimum-cost closed trajectory through required convex sets while allowing optional transit vertices and revisits. To explore the resulting infinite solution space, we propose a unified branch-and-bound search over rooted walk prefixes. Additive lower-bound-graph costs bound committed prefixes, while a cut-separated connected-flow relaxation lower-bounds the residual cost of visiting every remaining target and returning to the root. Under a uniform positive-cost assumption, best-first traversal terminates after finitely many expansions on every feasible instance without an initial incumbent, whereas depth-first traversal does so once a finite incumbent is available. For a user-specified factor $ε\geq1$, a global lower bound certifies that either strategy's incumbent cost is at most $ε$ times the global optimum. We further demonstrate joint sensing-mode, visitation-order, and continuous-trajectory selection for a mobile-manipulator inspection task, including action precedences expressed in linear temporal logic over finite traces (LTL$_f$). Both traversal strategies find feasible solutions on all benchmark instances within 30s with mean certified optimality gaps of 28.1% and 29.7%, respectively, whereas two recent baselines succeed on only about half of the instances
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