A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach to the Electric Mobility Problem

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Autores principales: Veshchezerova, Margarita, Somov, Mikhail, Bertsche, David, Limmer, Steffen, Schmitt, Sebastian, Perelshtein, Michael, Tripathi, Ayush Joshi
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Publicado: 2023
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author Veshchezerova, Margarita
Somov, Mikhail
Bertsche, David
Limmer, Steffen
Schmitt, Sebastian
Perelshtein, Michael
Tripathi, Ayush Joshi
author_facet Veshchezerova, Margarita
Somov, Mikhail
Bertsche, David
Limmer, Steffen
Schmitt, Sebastian
Perelshtein, Michael
Tripathi, Ayush Joshi
contents We suggest a hybrid quantum-classical routine for the NP-hard Electric Vehicle Fleet Charging and Allocation Problem. The original formulation is a Mixed Integer Linear Program with continuous variables and inequality constraints. To separate inequality constraints that are difficult for quantum routines we use a decomposition in master and pricing problems: the former targets the assignment of vehicles to reservations and the latter suggests vehicle exploitation plans that respect the battery state-of-charge constraints. The master problem is equivalent to the search for an optimal set partition. In our hybrid scheme, the master problem is reformulated in a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem which can be solved with quantum annealing on the DWave Advantage system. On large instances, we benchmark the performance of the decomposition technique with classical and quantum-inspired metaheuristics: simulated annealing, tabu search, and vector annealing by NEC. The numerical results with purely classical solvers are comparable to the solutions from the traditional mixed integer linear programming approaches in terms of solution quality while being faster. In addition, it scales better to larger instances. The major advantage of the proposed approach is that it enables quantum-based methods for this realistic problem with many inequality constraints. We show this by initial studies on DWave hardware where optimal solutions can be found for small instances.
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spellingShingle A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach to the Electric Mobility Problem
Veshchezerova, Margarita
Somov, Mikhail
Bertsche, David
Limmer, Steffen
Schmitt, Sebastian
Perelshtein, Michael
Tripathi, Ayush Joshi
Quantum Physics
We suggest a hybrid quantum-classical routine for the NP-hard Electric Vehicle Fleet Charging and Allocation Problem. The original formulation is a Mixed Integer Linear Program with continuous variables and inequality constraints. To separate inequality constraints that are difficult for quantum routines we use a decomposition in master and pricing problems: the former targets the assignment of vehicles to reservations and the latter suggests vehicle exploitation plans that respect the battery state-of-charge constraints. The master problem is equivalent to the search for an optimal set partition. In our hybrid scheme, the master problem is reformulated in a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem which can be solved with quantum annealing on the DWave Advantage system. On large instances, we benchmark the performance of the decomposition technique with classical and quantum-inspired metaheuristics: simulated annealing, tabu search, and vector annealing by NEC. The numerical results with purely classical solvers are comparable to the solutions from the traditional mixed integer linear programming approaches in terms of solution quality while being faster. In addition, it scales better to larger instances. The major advantage of the proposed approach is that it enables quantum-based methods for this realistic problem with many inequality constraints. We show this by initial studies on DWave hardware where optimal solutions can be found for small instances.
title A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach to the Electric Mobility Problem
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02760