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This paper considers multi-goal motion planning in unstructured, obstacle-rich environments where a robot is required to reach multiple regions while avoiding collisions. The planned motions must also satisfy the differential constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yuanjie Lu , Erion Plaku

We introduce a new bounding approach called Continuity* C*, which provides optimality guarantees for the Moving-Target Traveling Salesman Problem (MT-TSP). Our approach relaxes the continuity constraints on the agent's tour by partitioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Allen George Philip , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

We present an exact formulation of the symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) that replaces the classical edge-selection view with a surface-building approach. Instead of selecting edges to form a cycle, the model selects a set of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Yılmaz Arslanoğlu

This work presents a tensor-network formulation of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and several of its variants. The approach represents candidate tours with tensor-network layers, weights them by Boltzmann factors, and enforces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Alejandro Mata Ali , Iñigo Perez Delgado , Aitor Moreno Fdez. de Leceta

For the traveling salesman problem (TSP), the existing supervised learning based algorithms suffer seriously from the lack of generalization ability. To overcome this drawback, this paper tries to train (in supervised manner) a small-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Zhang-Hua Fu , Kai-Bin Qiu , Hongyuan Zha

In this paper we address the optimal planning of autonomous teams for general purpose tasks including a wide spectrum of situations: from project management of human teams to the coordination of an automated assembly lines, focusing in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Antonio Sojo , Iván Maza , Aníbal Ollero

The Travelling Salesman Problem - TSP is one of the most explored problems in the scientific literature to solve real problems regarding the economy, transportation, and logistics, to cite a few cases. Adapting TSP to solve different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Carlos Alberto da Silva Junior , Roberto Yuji Tanaka , Luiz Carlos Farias da Silva , Angelo Passaro

The ``Heatmap + Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)'' paradigm has recently emerged as a prominent framework for solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). While considerable effort has been devoted to enhancing heatmap sophistication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xuanhao Pan , Chenguang Wang , Chaolong Ying , Ye Xue , Tianshu Yu

Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires identification of conflict free paths for agents which could be point-sized or with dimensions. In this paper, we propose an approach for MAPF for spatially-extended agents. These find application in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shyni Thomas , M. Narasimha Murty

Traveling salesman problems (TSP) are one of the well-known combinatorial optimization problems that many groups tackle to solve. This problem appears in many types of combinational optimization, such as scheduling, route optimization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Hikaru Wakaura

Robotic systems often require a team of robots to collectively visit multiple targets while optimizing competing objectives, such as total travel cost and makespan. This setting can be formulated as the Multi-Objective Multiple Traveling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Fengxiaoxiao Li , Xiao Mao , Mingfeng Fan , Yifeng Zhang , Yi Li , Tanishq Duhan , Guillaume Sartoretti

The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP) is one of the NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. A variant of GTSP is E-GTSP where E, meaning equality, has the constraint: exactly one node from a cluster of a graph partition is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Camelia-M. Pintea

This paper presents a multiagent approach as a paradigm for scheduling parallel jobs in a parallel system. Scheduling parallel jobs is performed as a means to balance the load of a system in order to improve the performance of a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Jaderick P. Pabico

In this paper discussed procedure of separation of the original problem with several vehicles to a number of simpler problems with one vehicle which based on the matrix approach.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Sergey Ishkov , Elena Ishkova

The cost due to delay in services may be intrinsically different for various applications of vehicle routing such as medical emergencies, logistical operations, and ride-sharing. We study a fundamental generalization of the Traveling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Majid Farhadi , Jai Moondra , Prasad Tetali , Alejandro Toriello

In the Bounded Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (BMTSP), a tour for each salesman, that starts and ends at the depot and that respects the bounds on the number of cities that a feasible salesman tour should satisfy, is to be constructed.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Víctor Pacheco-Valencia , Nodari Vakhania

The generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem. In GTSP, we are given a partition of cities into groups and we are required to find a minimum length tour that includes exactly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Gregory Gutin , Daniel Karapetyan

The Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is a fundamental NP-hard optimisation challenge with widespread applications in logistics, operations research, and network design. While classical algorithms effectively solve small to medium-sized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Christos Lytrosyngounis , Ioannis Lytrosyngounis

The Double Travelling Salesman Problem with Multiple Stacks, DTSPMS, deals with the collect and delivery of n commodities in two distinct cities, where the pickup and the delivery tours are related by LIFO constraints. During the pickup…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Laurent Alfandari , Sophie Toulouse

The Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP) extends the Traveling Salesman Problem to m tours that start and end at a common depot and jointly visit all customers exactly once. In the min-max variant, the objective is to minimize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Guillem Rodríguez-Corominas , Maria J. Blesa , Christian Blum