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We present a new heuristic point-to-point routing algorithm based on contraction hierarchies (CH). Given an epsilon >= 0, we can prove that the length of the path computed by our algorithm is at most (1+epsilon) times the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-05 Robert Geisberger

Off-road environments present unique challenges for autonomous navigation due to their complex and unstructured nature. Traditional global path-planning methods, which typically aim to minimize path length and travel time, perform poorly on…

Searching for a path between two nodes in a graph is one of the most well-studied and fundamental problems in computer science. In numerous domains such as robotics, AI, or biology, practitioners develop search heuristics to accelerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Michal Pándy , Weikang Qiu , Gabriele Corso , Petar Veličković , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec , Pietro Liò

Traveling to different destinations is a big part of our lives. We visit a variety of locations both during our daily lives and when we're on vacation. How can we find the best way to navigate from one place to another? Perhaps we can test…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Teresa Rexin , Mason A. Porter

Path planners based on basic rapidly-exploring random trees (RRTs) are quick and efficient, and thus favourable for real-time robot path planning, but are almost-surely suboptimal. In contrast, the optimal RRT (RRT*) converges to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Bongani B. Maseko , Corné E. van Daalen , Johann Treurnicht

Contour trees offer an abstract representation of the level set topology in scalar fields and are widely used in topological data analysis and visualization. However, applying contour trees to large-scale scientific datasets remains…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mingzhe Li , Hamish Carr , Oliver Rübel , Bei Wang , Gunther H. Weber

Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao

Global Route-Planning Algorithms (GRPA) are required to compute paths between several points located on Earth's surface. A geodesic algorithm is employed as an auxiliary tool, increasing the precision of distance calculations. This work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-17 William C. da Rosa , Iury V. de Bessa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

This paper introduces Bidirectional Guidance Informed Trees (BIGIT*),~a new asymptotically optimal sampling-based motion planning algorithm. Capitalizing on the strengths of \emph{meet-in-the-middle} property in bidirectional heuristic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yi Wang , Bingxian Mu

We present several modifications to the previously proposed MSPP algorithm that can speed-up its execution considerably. The MSPP algorithm leverages a multiscale representation of the environment in $n$ dimensions. The information of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Florian Hauer , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper we present a fast scalable heuristic for bin packing that partitions the given problem into identical sub-problems of constant size and solves these constant size sub-problems by considering only a constant number of bin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We propose a new exact method for shortest-path distance queries on large-scale networks. Our method precomputes distance labels for vertices by performing a breadth-first search from every vertex. Seemingly too obvious and too inefficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Takuya Akiba , Yoichi Iwata , Yuichi Yoshida

Optimal path planning requires finding a series of feasible states from the starting point to the goal to optimize objectives. Popular path planning algorithms, such as Effort Informed Trees (EIT*), employ effort heuristics to guide the…

We present a novel heuristic algorithm for routing optimization on complex networks. Previously proposed routing optimization algorithms aim at avoiding or reducing link overload. Our algorithm balances traffic on a network by minimizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-12 Bogdan Danila , Yong Yu , John A. Marsh , Kevin E. Bassler

An optimal heuristic logic is an effective method for finding the sum of all prime numbers up to a given number. This paper presents different approaches, namely, general method and optimal method which facilitate to compare the results and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-27 P. Vasanth Sena

Finding solutions to the classical transportation problem is of great importance, since this optimization problem arises in many engineering and computer science applications. Especially the Earth Mover's Distance is used in a plethora of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Carsten Gottschlich , Dominic Schuhmacher

We propose a novel distance to calculate distance between high dimensional vector pairs, utilizing vector quantization generated encodings. Vector quantization based methods are successful in handling large scale high dimensional data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Shicong Liu , Junru Shao , Hongtao Lu

Computing cost optimal paths in network data is a very important task in many application areas like transportation networks, computer networks or social graphs. In many cases, the cost of an edge can be described by various cost criteria.…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Michael Shekelyan , Gregor Jossé , Matthias Schubert

We study the problem of computing all Pareto-optimal journeys in a public transit network regarding the two criteria of arrival time and number of transfers taken. In recent years, great advances have been made in making public transit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sascha Witt

Rapid urbanization places increasing stress on already burdened transportation systems, resulting in delays and poor levels of service. Billions of spatiotemporal call detail records (CDRs) collected from mobile devices create new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Jameson L. Toole , Serdar Colak , Fahad Alhasoun , Alexandre Evsukoff , Marta C. Gonzalez