Adaptive and Compact Discretization for Weighted Region Optimal Path Finding

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  • Zheng Sun
  • John H. Reif
چکیده

This paper presents several results on the weighted region optimal path problem. An often-used approach to approximately solve this problem is to apply a discrete search algorithm to a graph G2 generated by a discretization of the problem; this graph guarantees to contain an 2-approximation of an optimal path between given source and destination points. We first provide a discretization scheme such that the size of G2 does not depend on the ratio between the maximum and minimum unit weights. This leads to the first 2-approximation algorithm whose complexity is not dependent on the unit weight ratio. We also introduce an empirical method, called adaptive discretization method, that improves the performance of the approximation algorithms by placing discretization points densely only in areas that may contain optimal paths. BUSHWHACK is a discrete search algorithm used for finding optimal paths in G2. We added two heuristics to BUSHWHACK to improve its performance

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تاریخ انتشار 2003