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Solving the Non-Crossing MAPF with CP

Abstract

We introduce a new Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem which is motivated by an industrial application. Given a fleet of robots that move on a workspace that may contain static obstacles, we must find paths from their current positions to a set of destinations, and the goal is to minimise the length of the longest path. The originality of our problem comes from the fact that each robot is attached with a cable to an anchor point, and that robots are not able to cross these cables. We formally define the Non-Crossing MAPF (NC-MAPF) problem and show how to compute lower and upper bounds by solving well known assignment problems. We introduce a Variable Neighbourhood Search (VNS) approach for improving the upper bound, and a Constraint Programming (CP) model for solving the problem to optimality. We experimentally evaluate these approaches on randomly generated instances.
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hal-03320987 , version 1 (16-08-2021)

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Xiao Peng, Christine Solnon, Olivier Simonin. Solving the Non-Crossing MAPF with CP. CP 2021 - 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Oct 2021, Montpellier (on line), France. pp.1-17, ⟨10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.20⟩. ⟨hal-03320987⟩
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