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The game of Cops and Robber is traditionally played on a finite graph. The purpose of this note is to introduce and analyze the game that is played on an arbitrary geodesic space. The game is defined in such a way that it preserves the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Bojan Mohar

We study a pursuit-evasion game between two players with car-like dynamics and sensing limitations by formalizing it as a partially observable stochastic zero-sum game. The partial observability caused by the sensing constraints is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Burak M. Gonultas , Volkan Isler

In this paper we investigate a differential game in which countably many dynamical objects pursue a single one. All the players perform simple motions. The duration of the game is fixed. The controls of a group of pursuers are subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Mehdi Salimi , Gafurjan Ibragimov , Stefan Siegmund , Somayeh Sharifi

This paper explores a multi-agent containment problem, where a fast evader, modeled having constant speed and using constant heading, attempts to escape a circular containment region that is orbited by a slower pursuer with a nonzero…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Braulio Mora , Alexander Von Moll , Isaac Weintraub , David Casbeer , Animesh Chakravarthy

The convex grabbing game is a game where two players, Alice and Bob, alternate taking extremal points from the convex hull of a point set on the plane. Rational weights are given to the points. The goal of each player is to maximize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Martin Dvorak , Sara Nicholson

This work considers a multiplayer reach-avoid game between two adversarial teams in a general convex domain which consists of a target region and a play region. The evasion team, initially lying in the play region, aims to send as many its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

We study a pursuit-evasion differential game with finite number of pursuers and one evader in Hilbert space with geometric constraints on the control functions of players. We solve the game by presenting explicit strategies for pursuers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Mehdi Salimi , Massimiliano Ferrara

Pursuit-evasion games are ubiquitous in nature and in an artificial world. In nature, pursuer(s) and evader(s) are intelligent agents that can learn from experience, and dynamics (i.e., Newtonian or Lagrangian) is vital for the pursuer and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Hao Xiong , Huanhui Cao , Lin Zhang , Wenjie Lu

A cat and mouse play a pursuit and evasion game on a connected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. The mouse moves to vertices $m_1,m_2,\dots$ of $G$ where $m_i$ is in the closed neighbourhood of $m_{i-1}$ for $i\geq2$. The cat tests vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Hannah Guggiari , Alexander Roberts , Alex Scott

This paper investigates the difference between the circular and elliptical cases in one-on-one pursuit and evasion problems. Using the simultaneous differential equation derived by Barton and Eliezer, we derive a dynamical system based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Sota Yoshihara

We consider a class of pursuit-evasion differential games in which the evader has continuous access to the pursuer's location, but not vice-versa. There is an immobile sensor (e.g., a ground radar station) that can sense the evader's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Dipankar Maity

In this paper we study a linear pursuit differential game described by an infinite system of first-order differential equations in Hilbert space. The control functions of players are subject to geometric constraints. The pursuer attempts to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Gafurjan Ibragimov , Massimiliano Ferrara , Idham Arif Alias , Mehdi Salimi

We propose a definition of generalized Cops and Robbers games where there are two players, the Pursuer and the Evader, who each move via prescribed rules. If the Pursuer can ensure that the game enters into a fixed set of final positions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Anthony Bonato , Gary MacGillivray

We propose the Hit-and-Run algorithm for planning and sampling problems in non-convex spaces. For sampling, we show the first analysis of the Hit-and-Run algorithm in non-convex spaces and show that it mixes fast as long as certain…

Computation · Statistics 2016-10-28 Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori , Peter L. Bartlett , Victor Gabillon , Alan Malek

This paper addresses a two-player target defense game in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space where an attacker attempts to enter a closed convex target set while a defender strives to capture the attacker beforehand. We provide a complete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

A qualitative account is given of a differential pursuit/evasion game. A criterion for the existence of an intercept solution is obtained using future cones that contain all attainable trajectories of target or interceptor originating from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 John A. Morgan

Holding on to one's strategy is natural and common if the later warrants success and satisfaction. This goes against widespread simulation practices of evolutionary games, where players frequently consider changing their strategy even…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-05-04 Yongkui Liu , Xiaojie Chen , Lin Zhang , Long Wang , Matjaz Perc

We consider a model of two competing microswimming agents engaged in a pursue-evasion task within a low-Reynolds-number environment. Agents can only perform simple maneuvers and sense hydrodynamic disturbances, which provide ambiguous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-04 Francesco Borra , Luca Biferale , Massimo Cencini , Antonio Celani

We study a finite-horizon differential game of pursuit-evasion like, between a single player and a mass of agents. The player and the mass directly control their own evolution, which for the mass is given by a first order PDE of transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rossana Capuani , Luciano Marzufero

We study the capture of a diffusing "lamb" by diffusing "lions" in one dimension. The capture dynamics is exactly soluble by probabilistic techniques when the number of lions is very small, and is tractable by extreme statistics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Redner , P. L. Krapivsky