Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Uncertain Logistics Transportation Scheduling

Abstract

Nowadays, finding the optimal route for vehicles through online vehicle path planning is one of the main problems that the logistics industry needs to solve. Due to the uncertainty of the transportation system, especially the last-mile delivery problem of small packages in uncertain logistics transportation, the calculation of logistics vehicle routing planning becomes more complex than before. Most of the existing solutions are less applied to new technologies such as machine learning, and most of them use a heuristic algorithm. This kind of solution not only needs to set a lot of constraints but also requires much calculation time in the logistics network with high demand density. To design the uncertain logistics transportation path with minimum time, this paper proposes a new optimization strategy based on deep reinforcement learning that converts the uncertain online logistics routing problems into vehicle path planning problems and designs an embedded pointer network for obtaining the optimal solution. Considering the long time to solve the neural network, it is unrealistic to train parameters through supervised data. This article uses an unsupervised method to train the parameters. Because the process of parameter training is offline, this strategy can avoid the high delay. Through the simulation part, it is not difficult to see that the strategy proposed in this paper will effectively solve the uncertain logistics scheduling problem under the limited computing time, and it is significantly better than other strategies. Compared with traditional mathematical procedures, the algorithm proposed in this paper can reduce the driving distance by 60.71. In addition, this paper also studies the impact of some key parameters on the effect of the program.