Distributed route planning and scheduling via hybrid conflict resolution

• Main Authors: THANGARAJOO, Ramesh, LAU, Hoong Chuin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: conflict resolution; coalition formation; distributed problem solving; logistics; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1015; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2014/viewcontent/DistributedRoutePlanningHybrid_2010_WI_IAT.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we discuss the problem of route planning and scheduling by a group of agents. Each agent is responsible for designing a route plan and schedule over a geographical network, and the goal is to obtain a conflict-free plan/schedule that optimizes a global objective. We present a hybrid c...