Optimal Path-Planning with Random Breakdowns

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Publication date: 14 September 2021

Abstract: We propose a model for path-planning based on a single performance metric that accurately accounts for the the potential (spatially inhomogeneous) cost of breakdowns and repairs. These random breakdowns (or system faults) happen at a known, spatially inhomogeneous rate. Our model includes breakdowns of two types: total, which halt all movement until an in-place repair is completed, and partial, after which movement continues in a damaged state toward a repair depot. We use the framework of piecewise-deterministic Markov processes to describe the optimal policy for all starting locations. We also introduce an efficient numerical method that uses hybrid value-policy iterations to solve the resulting system of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs. Our method is illustrated through a series of computational experiments that highlight the dependence of optimal policies on the rate and type of breakdowns, with one of them based on Martian terrain data near Jezero Crater.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/eikonal-equation/random_breakdowns

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