Communication Robot Network
Choose relay stations and links to connect robots with low communication cost.
Communication Robot Network
Ported from Frontier-CS algorithmic/problems/211.
Agentics Interface
Each run executes the submitted zip_project solution once. The run command receives the case input on standard input and must write the candidate answer to standard output. The solution must not use the network during setup, build, or run.
The trusted separated evaluator compiles and runs the source-derived Frontier-CS checker against stdout.txt. Public validation contains one tiny deterministic case. Official cases, reference answers, and scoring metadata are supplied only through the required private asset official-runs.
Scoring
The primary metric is score, the average normalized Frontier-CS checker score on a 0-100 scale. Outputs rejected by the checker receive zero for that case. Official result details are score-only; public validation includes per-case feedback from the checker.
Original Statement
Communication Robots
Problem Description
In a task area, there are several robots distributed that must maintain a connected network through wireless communication to complete tasks collaboratively.
Wireless communication has the following characteristics:
(1) Establishing communication links consumes energy.
(2) There are high-power robots with more advanced communication modules, and links connected to them have lower energy consumption.
(3) There are also several optional relay stations distributed in the task area that can serve as intermediate nodes for signals, helping to reduce overall energy consumption.
Your task is to:
Design communication links, reasonably choose whether to enable relay stations, ensure all robots are connected, and minimize the overall energy consumption cost.
Communication Energy Consumption Rules
The square of the Euclidean distance between two nodes is the base value (D) of the communication energy consumption between the two nodes.
- The energy consumption cost between an ordinary robot (R) and an ordinary robot (R) is 1 × D.
- The energy consumption cost between an ordinary robot (R) and a high-power robot (S) is 0.8 × D.
- The energy consumption cost between a high-power robot (S) and a high-power robot (S) is 0.8 × D.
- The energy consumption cost between a relay station (C) and any robot (R or S) is 1 × D.
- Relay stations (C) cannot communicate directly with each other.
Goal
All robots (R and S) must form a connected network. Any two robots must have a communication path between them, which can be a direct connection or pass through other robots or relay stations.
You can choose to use or not use any relay stations.
Minimize the overall energy consumption cost.
Input Format
The first line contains two integers: N (number of robots) and K (number of optional relay stations).
The next N + K lines each contain: device ID, x-coordinate, y-coordinate, and type.
Constraints:
- N ≤ 1500, K ≤ 1500
- Type R represents an ordinary robot, S represents a high-power robot, C represents an optional relay station
- x-coordinates and y-coordinates are integers in the range [-10000, 10000]
Output Format
The first line: IDs of selected relay stations (if multiple, separated by "#"; if none, output "#").
The second line: Set of communication links (each link is represented as "device_id-device_id", multiple links are separated by "#").
Example
Input
3 1
1 0 0 R
2 100 0 R
3 50 40 S
4 50 0 C
Output
4
1-3#2-3#3-4
Scoring
Your solution will be evaluated based on the total energy consumption cost of the network you construct. The score is calculated as:
- Base score: The minimum spanning tree (MST) cost of all non-relay nodes (without using any relay stations).
- Your score: The actual total cost of your network.
- Final score ratio: min(1.0, base_cost / actual_cost)
If your network cost is less than or equal to the base MST cost, you receive full score (1.0). Otherwise, your score decreases proportionally.
Constraints
- 1 ≤ N ≤ 1500
- 0 ≤ K ≤ 1500
- Device coordinates: -10000 ≤ x, y ≤ 10000
- All robots (R and S) must be connected in the final network
- Relay stations cannot be directly connected to each other
Time Limit
10 seconds per test case
Memory Limit
512 MB
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