S$^*$: A Heuristic Information-Based Approximation Framework for Multi-Goal Path Finding

Autor: Chour, Kenny, Rathinam, Sivakumar, Ravi, Ramamoorthi
Rok vydání: 2021
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: We combine ideas from uni-directional and bi-directional heuristic search, and approximation algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem, to develop a novel framework for a Multi-Goal Path Finding (MGPF) problem that provides a 2-approximation guarantee. MGPF aims to find a least-cost path from an origin to a destination such that each node in a given set of goals is visited at least once along the path. We present numerical results to illustrate the advantages of our framework over conventional alternates in terms of the number of expanded nodes and run time.
Comment: In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)
Databáze: arXiv