Summary of Edge-direct: a Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Method For Solving Heterogeneous Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window Constraints, by Arash Mozhdehi et al.
Edge-DIRECT: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Method for Solving Heterogeneous Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window Constraints
by Arash Mozhdehi, Mahdi Mohammadizadeh, Xin Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach is proposed to solve the heterogeneous electric vehicle routing problem with time-window constraints (HEVRPTW). The Edge-enhanced Dual attentIon encoderR and feature-EnhanCed dual aTtention decoder (Edge-DIRECT) integrates an extra graph representation based on customer time-windows, exploiting energy consumption and travel time between locations. A dual attention decoder is introduced to account for the heterogeneity of the EVs’ fleet. Experimental results demonstrate Edge-DIRECT outperforms state-of-the-art DRL-based methods in solution quality and execution time. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to plan routes for electric vehicles is being developed. This method uses artificial intelligence to make sure that delivery times are met, which is important for companies that want to be customer-focused. The approach is tested on real-world data and shows that it’s better than other methods at solving this problem. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Decoder * Reinforcement learning
