Addressing adjacency constraints in rectangular floor plans using Monte-Carlo Tree Search
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Author(s)
Shi, Feng
K Soman, Ranjith
Han, Ji
Whyte, Jennifer
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Manually laying out the floor plan for buildings with highly-dense adjacency constraints at the early design stage is a labour-intensive problem. In recent decades, computer-based conventional search algorithms and evolutionary methods have been successfully developed to automatically generate various types of floor plans. However, there is relatively limited work focusing on problems with highly-dense adjacency constraints common in large scale floor plans such as hospitals and schools. This paper proposes an algorithm to generate the early-stage design of floor plans with highly-dense adjacency and non-adjacency constraints using reinforcement learning based on off-policy Monte-Carlo Tree Search. The results show the advantages of the proposed algorithm for the targeted problem of highly-dense adjacency constrained floor plan generation, which is more time-efficient, more lightweight to implement, and having a larger capacity than other approaches such as Evolution strategy and traditional on-policy search.
Date Issued
2020-07-01
Date Acceptance
2020-03-18
Citation
Automation in Construction, 2020, 115
ISSN
0926-5805
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Automation in Construction
Volume
115
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Bentley Systems UK
The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute
Grant Number
ATIPO000003394
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Construction & Building Technology
Engineering, Civil
Engineering
Floor plan generation
Highly-dense adjacency and non-adjacency constraint
Algorithm
Off-policy Monte-Carlo tree search
Reinforcement learning
Generative design
SPACE ALLOCATION PROBLEM
LAYOUT
ARCHITECTURE
GENERATION
CUSTOMIZATION
ALGORITHM
GAME
GO
09 Engineering
12 Built Environment and Design
Building & Construction
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 103187
Date Publish Online
2020-04-13