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Collaborative delivery on a fixed path with homogeneous energy-constrained agents

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We consider the problem of collectively delivering a package from a specified source to a designated target location in a graph, using multiple mobile agents. Each agent starts from some vertex of the graph; it can move along the edges of the graph and can can pick up the package from a vertex and drop it in another vertex during the course of its movement. However, each agent has limited energy budget allowing it to traverse a path of bounded length B; thus, multiple agents need to collaborate to move the package to its destination. Given the positions of the agents in the graph and their energy budgets, the problem of finding a feasible movement schedule is called the Collaborative Delivery problem and has been studied before. One of the open questions from previous results is what happens when the delivery must follow a fixed path given in advance. Although this special constraint reduces the search space for feasible solutions, we show that the problem of finding a feasible schedule remains NP hard (as the original problem). We consider the optimization version of the problem that asks for the optimal energy budget B per agent which allows for a feasible delivery schedule, given the initial positions of the agents. We show the existence of better approximations for the fixed-path version of the problem (at least for the restricted case of a single pickup per agent), compared to the known results for the general version of the problem. We provide polynomial time approximation algorithms for both directed and $ This work was partially supported by the ANR project ANCOR (anr-14-CE36-0002-01).
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hal-03287588 , version 1 (15-07-2021)

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Jérémie Chalopin, Shantanu Das, Yann Disser, Arnaud Labourel, Matúš Mihalák. Collaborative delivery on a fixed path with homogeneous energy-constrained agents. Theoretical Computer Science, 2021, 868, pp.87-96. ⟨10.1016/j.tcs.2021.04.004⟩. ⟨hal-03287588⟩
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