• DocumentCode
    1207789
  • Title

    Traveling Salesperson Problems for a Double Integrator

  • Author

    Savla, Ketan ; Bullo, Francesco ; Frazzoli, Emilio

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. for Inf. & Decision Syst., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
  • Volume
    54
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    788
  • Lastpage
    793
  • Abstract
    This technical note studies the following version of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) for a double integrator with bounded velocity and bounded control inputs: given a set of points in Ropfd, find the fastest tour over the point set. We first give asymptotic bounds on the time taken to complete such a tour in the worst case. Then, we study a stochastic version of the TSP for a double integrator in Ropf2 and Ropf3, where we propose novel algorithms that asymptotically perform within a constant factor of the optimal strategy with probability one. Lastly, we study a dynamic TSP in Ropf2 and Ropf3 , where we propose novel stabilizing algorithms whose performances are within a constant factor from the optimum.
  • Keywords
    stability; stochastic processes; travelling salesman problems; constant factor; double integrator; probability; traveling salesperson problems; Approximation algorithms; Computer science; Helium; Mathematics; Operations research; Robots; Stochastic processes; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics; Velocity control; Dynamic traveling repairperson problem (DTRP); traveling salesperson problem (TSP);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2008.2007856
  • Filename
    4806150