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Author(s):  
Prince Nathan S

Abstract: Travelling Salesmen problem is a very popular problem in the world of computer programming. It deals with the optimization of algorithms and an ever changing scenario as it gets more and more complex as the number of variables goes on increasing. The solutions which exist for this problem are optimal for a small and definite number of cases. One cannot take into consideration of the various factors which are included when this specific problem is tried to be solved for the real world where things change continuously. There is a need to adapt to these changes and find optimized solutions as the application goes on. The ability to adapt to any kind of data, whether static or ever-changing, understand and solve it is a quality that is shown by Machine Learning algorithms. As advances in Machine Learning take place, there has been quite a good amount of research for how to solve NP-hard problems using Machine Learning. This reportis a survey to understand what types of machine algorithms can be used to solve with TSP. Different types of approaches like Ant Colony Optimization and Q-learning are explored and compared. Ant Colony Optimization uses the concept of ants following pheromone levels which lets them know where the most amount of food is. This is widely used for TSP problems where the path is with the most pheromone is chosen. Q-Learning is supposed to use the concept of awarding an agent when taking the right action for a state it is in and compounding those specific rewards. This is very much based on the exploiting concept where the agent keeps on learning onits own to maximize its own reward. This can be used for TSP where an agentwill be rewarded for having a short path and will be rewarded more if the path chosen is the shortest. Keywords: LINEAR REGRESSION, LASSO REGRESSION, RIDGE REGRESSION, DECISION TREE REGRESSOR, MACHINE LEARNING, HYPERPARAMETER TUNING, DATA ANALYSIS


Robotics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Matteo Bottin ◽  
Giovanni Boschetti ◽  
Giulio Rosati

Industrial robot applications should be designed to allow the robot to provide the best performance for increasing throughput. In this regard, both trajectory and task order optimization are crucial, since they can heavily impact cycle time. Moreover, it is very common for a robotic application to be kinematically or functionally redundant so that multiple arm configurations may fulfill the same task at the working points. In this context, even if the working cycle is composed of a small number of points, the number of possible sequences can be very high, so that the robot programmer usually cannot evaluate them all to obtain the shortest possible cycle time. One of the most well-known problems used to define the optimal task order is the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), but in its original formulation, it does not allow to consider different robot configurations at the same working point. This paper aims at overcoming TSP limitations by adding some mathematical and conceptual constraints to the problem. With such improvements, TSP can be used successfully to optimize the cycle time of industrial robotic tasks where multiple configurations are allowed at the working points. Simulation and experimental results are presented to assess how cost (cycle time) and computational time are influenced by the proposed implementation.


Author(s):  
Ms. Amita P. Thakare ◽  
Dr. Sunil Kumar

System getting to know algorithms are complicated to version on hardware. that is due to the truth that those algorithms require quite a few complicated design systems, which are not effort lessly synthesizable. Therefore, through the years, multiple researchers have developed diverse kingdom-of-the artwork techniques, every of them has sure distinct advantages over the others. In this newsletter, we compare the specific strategies for hardware modelling of the various device gaining knowledge of machine learning algorithms, and their hardware-stage overall performance. this newsletter could be useful for any researcher or gadget dressmaker that needs to first evaluate the superior techniques for ML layout, and then inspired with the aid of this, they are able to similarly enlarge it and optimize the device’s performance. Our assessment is based on the 3 number one parameters of hardware layout; that is; place, power and postpone. Any layout approach that can find a stability among those three parameters may be termed as greatest. This work additionally recommends sure enhancements for some of the techniques, which can be taken up for similarly studies. Machine Learning is a concept to find out from examples and skill, while not being expressly programmed. Rather than writing code, you feed knowledge to the generic formula, and it builds logic supported the info given. for instance, one reasonably formula could be a classification formula. It will place knowledge into totally different teams. The classification formula accustomed notice written alphabets may even be accustomed classifies emails into spam and not-spam. Machine learning has resolve many errors ranging from simple arithmetic problems like TSP (Travelling Salesman Problem) to complex issues like predicting the variations in stock market price, Machine learning algorithms like genetic algorithm, particles swarm optimization, deep nets and Q-learning are currently being developed on software platforms due to the ease of implementation. But the full utilization of core algorithms can only be possible. If they are designed & integrated inside the silicon chip. Companies like Apple, Google and Snapdragon etc. are continuously updating their ICs to incorporate these algorithms. But there is no standard architecture defined to implement these algorithms at chip level, due to these inefficiencies of every alternative multiply when these devices connected together. In this research work, we plan to develop a standard architecture for implementation of machine learning algorithms on integrated circuits so that these circuits. connected together work seamlessly with each other & improve the overall system performance. Finally, we planned to implement at least two algorithms on the proposed architecture & verify its optimization capability for practical systems. Our assessment is based on the 3 number one parameters of hardware layout; i.e.; place, power and postpone. Any layout approach that can find a stability among those three parameters may be termed as greatest. This work additionally recommends sure enhancements for some of the techniques, which can be taken up for similarly studies. Machine learning has solved many problems ranging from simple arithmetic problems like TSP (Travelling Salesman Problem) to complex issues like predicting the variations in stock market price, Machine learning algorithms like genetic algorithm.


2022 ◽  
pp. 490-508
Author(s):  
Ayan Chatterjee ◽  
Susmita Sarkar ◽  
Mahendra Rong ◽  
Debmallya Chatterjee

Communication issue in operation management is important concern in the age of 21st century. In operation, communication can be described based on major three wings- Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and Transportation Problem (TP). Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an important tool to handle these systems. In this chapter, different ANN based models are discussed in a comprehensive way. This chapter deals with how various approaches of ANN help to design the optimal communication network. This comprehensive study is important to the decision makers for the analytical consideration. Although there is a lot of development in this particular domain from a long time ago; but only the revolutionary contributed models are taken into account. Another motivation of this chapter is understanding the importance of ANN in the operation management area.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Veri Julianto ◽  
Hendrik Setyo Utomo ◽  
Muhammad Rusyadi Arrahimi

This optimization is an optimization case that organizes all possible and feasible solutions in discrete form. One form of combinatorial optimization that can be used as material in testing a method is the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). In this study, the bat algorithm will be used to find the optimum value in TSP. Utilization of the Metaheuristic Algorithm through the concept of the Bat Algorithm is able to provide optimal results in searching for the shortest distance in the case of TSP. Based on trials conducted using data on the location of student street vendors, the Bat Algortima is able to obtain the global minimum or the shortest distance when compared to the nearest neighbor method, Hungarian method, branch and bound method.


Author(s):  
Priya Dharshini. A

Abstract: The travelling salesman problem is one of the famous combinatorial optimization problem and has been intensively studied in the last decades. We present a new extension of the basics problem, where travel times are specified as a range of possible values. Keywords: Fuzzy sets, Arithmetic operation on interval, least common method, travelling salesman problem.


2021 ◽  
pp. 543-550
Author(s):  
Nataliya Boyko ◽  
Andriy Pytel

Lately, artificial intelligence has become increasingly popular. Still, at the same time, a stereotype has been formed that AI is based solely on neural networks, even though a neural network is only one of the numerous directions of artificial intelligence. This paper aims to bring attention to other directions of AI, such as genetic algorithms. In this paper, we study the process of solving the travelling salesman problem (TSP) via genetic algorithms (GA) and consider the issues of this method. The genetic algorithm is a method for solving both constrained and unconstrained optimization problems that are based on natural selection, the process that drives biological evolution. One of the common problems in programming is the travelling salesman problem. Many methods can be used to solve it, but we are going consider genetic algorithms. This study aims at developing the most efficient application of genetic algorithms in the travelling salesman problem.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Aldhiqo Yusron Mubarok ◽  
Umi Chotijah

Dalam pengiriman suatu paket, barang, dan dalam melakukan sebuah bisnis, lokasi merupakan hal yang sangat penting untuk dikendalikan. Banyaknya kasus yang sering ditemukan adalah kedatangan paket yang terlambat dikarenakan kurir barang tidak dapat menemukan jalur yang tercepat atau yang paling efisien. Menentukan jarak yang paling efektif dalam sebuah pengiriman barang atau paket menjadi hal yang dapat menentukan kepuasan pelanggan. Dalam kasus ini penulis membuat sebuah alternatif mencari optimasi jalur terpendek  dalam kasus TSP dengan menggunakan metode algoritma genetika. Dengan metode tersebut penulis ingin menganalisa dan menghitung rute optimal atau terpendek dengan data set yang telah digunakan. Dengan prinsip algoritma genetika yang menyerupai seleksi makhluk hidup dengan pupulasi sebagai bagian dari tiap individu dan tiap individu akan dilambangkan dengan sebuah nilai fitness. Aplikasi yang digunakan untuk membuat aplikasi ini adalah Matlab 2020a.  Hasil dari penelitian yang ditemukan ukuran generasi pada penelitian kali ini yang menunjukkan hasil optimal adalah 200 generasi dengan nilai optimal untuk Probabilitas crossover sebesar 0,8 serta  0,005 untuk probabilitas terbaik mutasi. Nilai tersebut dapat dikatakan baik karena fitness yang didapat dari hasil tersebut adalah 0,036 menunjukkan nilai yang paling optimal.


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