• DocumentCode
    1309599
  • Title

    On the Dubins Traveling Salesman Problem

  • Author

    Le Ny, Jerome ; Feron, Eric ; Frazzoli, Emilio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Syst. Eng., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Volume
    57
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    265
  • Lastpage
    270
  • Abstract
    We study the traveling salesman problem for a Dubins vehicle. We prove that this problem is NP-hard, and provide lower bounds on the approximation ratio achievable by some recently proposed heuristics. We also describe new algorithms for this problem based on heading discretization, and evaluate their performance numerically.
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; autonomous aerial vehicles; optimisation; path planning; travelling salesman problems; Dubins traveling salesman problem; Dubins vehicle; NP-hard problem; approximation ratio; heading discretization; lower bounds; motion planning; performance evaluation; Approximation algorithms; Approximation methods; Planning; Robots; Traveling salesman problems; Turning; Vehicles; Algorithms; motion planning; traveling salesman problem (TSP); unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2011.2166311
  • Filename
    6004813