I am completely new to OR Tools, but what I have tried so far seems very powerful. I have, however, run into a problem that I cannot seem to figure out how to solve. I am trying to model a TSP problem, which also includes constraints on the demand of connected nodes. It is not the capacity on the entire tour, but rather on rolling subsets of the tour.
E.g. the demand of 3 connected nodes has to be at least ($\ge$) 6. Or it could also be that the demand of 3 connected nodes at most ($\le$) could be 16.
Which would translate into for the min constraint:
demand[tour_index[0]] + demand[tour_index[1]] + demand[tour_index[0]] >= 6
demand[tour_index[1]] + demand[tour_index[2]] + demand[tour_index[3]] >= 6
demand[tour_index[2]] + demand[tour_index[3]] + demand[tour_index[4]] >= 6
and so on.
Say I have the following data, how could I model these kinds of constraints.
Thanks!
data['distance_matrix'] = [
[
0, 548, 776, 696, 582, 274, 502, 194, 308, 194, 536, 502, 388, 354,
468, 776, 662
],
[
548, 0, 684, 308, 194, 502, 730, 354, 696, 742, 1084, 594, 480, 674,
1016, 868, 1210
],
[
776, 684, 0, 992, 878, 502, 274, 810, 468, 742, 400, 1278, 1164,
1130, 788, 1552, 754
],
[
696, 308, 992, 0, 114, 650, 878, 502, 844, 890, 1232, 514, 628, 822,
1164, 560, 1358
],
[
582, 194, 878, 114, 0, 536, 764, 388, 730, 776, 1118, 400, 514, 708,
1050, 674, 1244
],
[
274, 502, 502, 650, 536, 0, 228, 308, 194, 240, 582, 776, 662, 628,
514, 1050, 708
],
[
502, 730, 274, 878, 764, 228, 0, 536, 194, 468, 354, 1004, 890, 856,
514, 1278, 480
],
[
194, 354, 810, 502, 388, 308, 536, 0, 342, 388, 730, 468, 354, 320,
662, 742, 856
],
[
308, 696, 468, 844, 730, 194, 194, 342, 0, 274, 388, 810, 696, 662,
320, 1084, 514
],
[
194, 742, 742, 890, 776, 240, 468, 388, 274, 0, 342, 536, 422, 388,
274, 810, 468
],
[
536, 1084, 400, 1232, 1118, 582, 354, 730, 388, 342, 0, 878, 764,
730, 388, 1152, 354
],
[
502, 594, 1278, 514, 400, 776, 1004, 468, 810, 536, 878, 0, 114,
308, 650, 274, 844
],
[
388, 480, 1164, 628, 514, 662, 890, 354, 696, 422, 764, 114, 0, 194,
536, 388, 730
],
[
354, 674, 1130, 822, 708, 628, 856, 320, 662, 388, 730, 308, 194, 0,
342, 422, 536
],
[
468, 1016, 788, 1164, 1050, 514, 514, 662, 320, 274, 388, 650, 536,
342, 0, 764, 194
],
[
776, 868, 1552, 560, 674, 1050, 1278, 742, 1084, 810, 1152, 274,
388, 422, 764, 0, 798
],
[
662, 1210, 754, 1358, 1244, 708, 480, 856, 514, 468, 354, 844, 730,
536, 194, 798, 0
],
]
data['demands'] = [0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 2, 4, 8, 8, 1, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 8, 8]
data['num_vehicles'] = 1
data['depot'] = 0
circuit
and nestedelement
constraints.There are circuit and element constraints in ortools, but i'm too lazy to check their power (esp. because we don't know which solver is targeted). As someone who recently discovered this combination (for some ATSP-TW like prob) in a non-nested setting, i will warn you about some headaches induced $\endgroup$circuit
andelement
:"Alternative filtering for the weighted circuit constraint: comparing lower bounds for the TSP and solving TSPTW."
(Ducomman et al.; 2016) $\endgroup$