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Generalized Conflict Learning For Hybrid Discrete Linear Optimization

dc.date.accessioned2010-04-15T17:30:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-26T22:26:15Z
dc.date.available2010-04-15T17:30:04Z
dc.date.available2018-11-26T22:26:15Z
dc.date.issued2005-05-20
dc.identifier.citationLi, H., Generalized Conflict Learning For Hybrid Discrete Linear Optimization, Master's Thesis, MIT, 2005en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53718
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.aust.edu.ng/xmlui/handle/1721.1/53718
dc.descriptionSM thesisen_US
dc.description.abstractConflict-directed search algorithms have formed the core of practical, model-based reasoning systems for the last three decades. In many of these applications there is a series of discrete constraint optimization problems and a conflict-directed search algorithm, which uses conflicts in the forward search step to focus search away from known infeasibilities and towards the optimal solution. In the arena of model-based autonomy, discrete systems, like deep space probes, have given way to more agile systems, such as coordinated vehicle control, which must robustly control their continuous dynamics. Controlling these systems requires optimizing over continuous, as well as discrete variables, using linear and non-linear as well as logical constraints. This thesis explores the development of algorithms for solving ybrid discrete/linear optimization problems that use conflicts in the forward search direction, generalizing from the conflict-directed search algorithms of based reasoning. We introduce a novel algorithm called Generalized Conflict-directed Branch and Bound (GCD-BB). GCD-BB extends traditional Branch and Bound (B&B), by first constructing conflicts from nodes of the search tree that are found to be infeasible or sub-optimal, and then by using these conflicts to guide the forward search away from known infeasible and sub-optimal states. We evaluate GCD-BB empirically on a range of test problems of coordinated air vehicle control. GCD-BB demonstrates a substantial improvement in performance compared to a traditional B&B algorithm, applied to either disjunctive linear programs or an equivalent binary integer program encoding.en_US
dc.format.extent76 p.en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32466
dc.subjectConstraint satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectOptimizationen_US
dc.subjectHybrid systemsen_US
dc.titleGeneralized Conflict Learning For Hybrid Discrete Linear Optimizationen_US


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