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This paper studies a planar multiplayer Homicidal Chauffeur reach-avoid differential game, where each pursuer is a Dubins car and each evader has simple motion. The pursuers aim to protect a goal region cooperatively from the evaders. Due…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Rui Yan , Ruiliang Deng , Haowen Lai , Weixian Zhang , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

We study a pursuit-evasion problem which can be viewed as an extension of the keep-away game. In the game, pursuer(s) will attempt to intersect or catch the evader, while the evader can visit a fixed set of locations, which we denote as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Weifu Wang , Ping Li

We develop a game-theoretic framework for adversarially robust optimal safe predefined-time stabilization of parameter-dependent nonlinear dynamical systems with nonquadratic cost functionals. Our approach ensures that all system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Nick-Marios T. Kokolakis , Shanqing Liu , Jerome Darbon , Rahul Mangharam , George Em Karniadakis

This paper investigates a reach-avoid game between two players with damped double integrator dynamics. An optimal state-feedback strategy is derived using a differential game framework combined with geometric analysis. To facilitate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Mengxin Lyu , Ruiliang Deng , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

This paper develops an algorithm for upper- and lower-bounding the value function for a class of linear time-varying games subject to convex control sets. In particular, a two-player zero-sum differential game is considered where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Vincent Liu , Chris Manzie , Peter M. Dower

This paper studies a class of approach-evasion differential games, in which one player aims to steer the state of a dynamic system to the given target set in minimum time, while avoiding some set of disallowed states, and the other player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Erich Mueller , Minghui Zhu , Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli

This study focuses on reachability problems in differential games. An improved level set method for computing reachable tubes is proposed in this paper. The reachable tube is described as a sublevel set of a value function, which is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Wei Liao , Taotao Liang , Pengwen Xiong , Chen Wang , Aiguo Song , Peter X. Liu

We consider the problem of planning trajectories for a group of $N$ vehicles, each aiming to reach its own target set while avoiding danger zones of other vehicles. The analysis of problems like this is extremely important practically,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Jaime F. Fisac , Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper we propose a novel semi-definite programming approach that solves reach-avoid problems over open (i.e., not bounded a priori) time horizons for dynamical systems modeled by polynomial stochastic differential equations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Martin Fränzle

In this paper, we consider state and control path-dependent stochastic zero-sum differential games, where the dynamics and the running cost include both state and control paths of the players. Using the notion of nonanticipative strategies,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Jun Moon

Reachability analysis is important for studying optimal control problems and differential games, which are powerful theoretical tools for analyzing and modeling many practical problems in robotics, aircraft control, among other application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

A classic reachability problem for safety of dynamic systems is to compute the set of initial states from which the state trajectory is guaranteed to stay inside a given constraint set over a given time horizon. In this paper, we leverage…

This paper studies a 3D multiplayer reach-avoid differential game with a goal region and a play region. Multiple pursuers defend the goal region by consecutively capturing multiple evaders in the play region. The players have heterogeneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Rui Yan , Xiaoming Duan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong , Francesco Bullo

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) analysis has been successfully used in many robotics and control tasks, and is especially effective in computing reach-avoid sets and control laws that enable an agent to reach a goal while satisfying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zheng Gong , Boyang Li , Sylvia Herbert

This paper presents Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) formulations for two classes of two-player zero-sum games: one with a maximum cost value over time, and one with a minimum cost value over time. In the zero-sum game setting, player A minimizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

This work considers designing an unmanned target hunting system for a swarm of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to hunt a target with high maneuverability. Differential game theory is used to analyze combat policies of UUVs and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Wei Wei , JingJing Wang , Jun Du , Zhengru Fang , Chunxiao Jiang , Yong Ren

We revisit the two-player planar target-defense game initially posed by Isaacs where a pursuer (or defender) attempts to guard a target set from an attack by an evader (or attacker). This paper builds on existing analytical solutions to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for jump diffusion systems with state constraints. In general, the value function of such problems is a discontinuous viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Jun Moon

Considering uncertainties and disturbances is an important, yet challenging, step in successful decision making. The problem becomes more challenging in safety-constrained environments. In this paper, we propose a robust and safe trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Hassan Almubarak , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Nader Sadegh

In this paper we propose sufficient conditions to synthesizing reach-avoid controllers for deterministic systems modelled by ordinary differential equations and stochastic systems modeled by stochastic differential equations based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Bai Xue