Constraint-Based Scheduling with Complex Setup Operations: An Iterative Two-Layer Approach

Constraint-Based Scheduling with Complex Setup Operations: An Iterative Two-Layer Approach

Adriana Pacheco, Cédric Pralet, Stéphanie Roussel

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 1155-1161. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/161

In this paper, we consider scheduling problems involving resources that must perform complex setup operations between the tasks they realize. To deal with such problems, we introduce a simple yet efficient iterative two-layer decision process that alternates between the fast synthesis of high-level schedules based on a coarse-grain model of setup operations, and the production of detailed schedules based on a fine-grain model. Experiments realized on representative benchmarks of a multi-robot application show the efficiency of the approach.
Keywords:
Constraints and SAT: Constraint Satisfaction
Planning and Scheduling: Scheduling