Escaping heuristic depressions in real-time heuristic search

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Hernández;Jorge A. Baier

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Católica de la Ssma. Concepción Concepción, Chile;Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile

  • Venue:
  • The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Heuristic depressions are local minima of heuristic functions. While visiting one them, real-time (RT) search algorithms like LRTA* will update the heuristic value for most of their states several times before escaping, resulting in costly solutions. Existing RT search algorithm tackle this problem by doing more search and/or lookahead but do not guide search towards leaving depressions. We present eLSS-LRTA* a new RT search algorithm based on LSS-LRTA* that actively guides search towards exiting regions with heuristic depressions. We show that our algorithm produces better-quality solutions than LSS-LRTA* for equal values of lookahead in standard RT benchmarks.