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We created a new repo: magat_pathplanning that integrated this repo and MAGAT (RAL2021) with several major updates that provide training speed-up, improvements to simulator, rework of code structure, and clearer comments.

We highly recommend to use the new repository for replicating and experimenting the GNN path-planner in this page.

PyTorch Project for Graph Neural Network based MAPF

Code accompanying the paper

Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Robot Path Planning

from Qingbiao Li (1), Fernando Gama (2), Alejandro Ribeiro (2), Amanda Prorok (1) at University of Cambridge (1) and at University of Pennsylvania (2).

Table of Contents:

• Graph MAPF project
  • Project Diagram
  • Framework Structure
  • How to use this repo
  • Requirements
  • License
  • Citation

Project Diagram:

Framework Structure:

The repo has the following structure:

├── agents (overall framework for training and testing)
|  └── base.py
|  └── decentralplannerlocal.py
|  └──      (DCP) 
|  └── decentralplannerlocal_OnlineExpert.py
|  └──      (DCP with onlin expert mechanism) 
|
├── configs (set up key parameters for training and inference stage,)
|  └── dcp_ECBS.json
|  └── dcp_onlineExpert.json
|
├── dataloader (load data for training)
|  └── Dataloader_dcplocal_notTF_onlineExpert.py
|
├── graphs 
|  └── models (model including CNN -> GNN -> MLP)
|  |  |
|  |  └── decentralplanner.py 
|  |
|  └── losses
|     └── cross_entropy.py
|
├── utils
|  |
|  └── assets
|  |  └── dataTools.py
|  |  └── graphML.py
|  |  └── graphTools.py
|  |
|  └── multirobotsim_dcenlocal.py 
|  └──      (simulator for dencentral agents)
|  └── multirobotsim_dcenlocal_onlineExpert.py 
|  └──      (simulator for dencentral agents with online expert mechanism, where failure is saved.)
|  └── visualize.py 
|  └──      (visualize the predicted path with communcation link.)
|  └── visualize_expertAlg.py
|  └──      (visualize the ground truth path.)
|  └── metrics.py 
|  └──      (Record stastics during inference stage.)
|  └── config.py 
|
├── offlineExpert
|  |
|  └── CasesSolver.py
|  └──       1, (# generate map) Randomly generate map with customized obstacle density and obstacle, 
|  └──       2. (# case under a map)
|  └──           At each specific map, generate random pairs of start and goal position for each agents.
|  └──       3. (for given case) Apply expert algorithm to compute solution.
|  |
|  └── DataGen_Transformer.py
|  └──      (Transform the solution into specific data format that ready to be loaded by dataloader.
|  └──          including: map, input tensor wiith each agents paths, GSO.)
|
├── onlineExpert
|  |
|  └── ECBS_onlineExpert.py
|  └──      (Apply expert algorithm to compute solution for failture cases recorded during training process.)
|  |
|  └── DataTransformer_local_onlineExpert.py
|  └──      (Transform the solution into specific data format, and then merged into offline dataset.)
|
├── experiments
|
├── data
|
├── statistic_analysis 
|  └── (Fig.3.) result_analysis_errorbar.py 
|  └── (Fig.4.) result_analysis_generalization_colormap.py
|  └── (Fig.5.) result_analysis_hist_impact_3K.py
|
└──  main.py

Requirements:

easydict>=1.7
matplotlib>=3.1.2
numpy>=1.14.5
Pillow>=5.2.0
scikit-image>=0.14.0
scikit-learn>=0.19.1
scipy>=1.1.0
tensorboardX>=1.2
torch>=1.1.0
torchvision>=0.3.0

How to use this repo:

Test trained network, for exmaple DCP OE - K=3

1. Download the dataset and trained network.
2. changes the 'data_root' and 'save_data' in ./configs/dcp_onlineExpert.json and then run

python main.py configs/dcp_onlineExpert.json --mode test --log_anime  --best_epoch --test_general --log_time_trained 1582034757   --nGraphFilterTaps 3 --map_w 20  --num_agents 10  --trained_num_agents 10 --trained_map_w 20

Train a new network, with DCP OE - K=3

python main.py configs/dcp_onlineExpert.json --mode train  --map_w 20 --nGraphFilterTaps 3  --num_agents 10  --trained_num_agents 10

More setting can be found in scrips

Visualization

python ./utils/visualize.py --map [Path_to_Cases]/successCases_ID00000.yaml --schedule  [Path_to_Cases]/predict_success/successCases_ID00000.yaml --GSO  [Path_to_Cases]/GSO/successCases_ID00000.mat --speed 2 --video [predict_success]/video.mp4 --nGraphFilterTaps 2 --id_chosenAgent 0

where [Path_to_Cases] is defined by where the 'Results/AnimeDemo'.

License:

This work based on a Scalable template by Hager Rady and Mo'men AbdelRazek

The graph neural network module of this work based on the GNN library from Alelab at University of Pennsylvania.

The project of graph mapf is licensed under MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Citation:

If you use this paper in an academic work, please cite:

@article{li2019graph,
  title={Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Robot Path Planning},
  author={Li, Qingbiao and Gama, Fernando and Ribeiro, Alejandro and Prorok, Amanda},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06095},
  year={2019}
}