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We study a pursuit-evasion game between a double integrator-driven pursuer with bounded velocity and bounded acceleration and a single integrator-driven evader with bounded velocity in a two-dimensional plane. The pursuer's goal is to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Zehua Zhao , Rui Yan , Jianping He , Xinping Guan , Xiaoming Duan

In this paper, a time-optimal feedback solution to the game of two cars, for the case where the pursuer is faster and more agile than the evader, is presented. The concept of continuous subsets of the reachable set is introduced to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Aditya Chaudhari , Debraj Chakraborty

We propose a decentralized solution for a pursuit-evasion game involving a heterogeneous group of rational (selfish) pursuers and a single evader based on the framework of potential games. In the proposed game, the evader aims to delay (or,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

This paper studies a multiplayer reach-avoid differential game in the presence of general polygonal obstacles that block the players' motions. The pursuers cooperate to protect a convex region from the evaders who try to reach the region.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Rui Yan , Shuai Mi , Xiaoming Duan , Jintao Chen , Xiangyang Ji

In this paper, we investigate a pursuit-evasion game in which a mobile observer tries to track a target in an environment containing obstacles. We formulate the game as an optimal control problem with state inequality constraint in a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Rui Zou , Hamid Emadi , Sourabh Bhattacharya

Multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where pursuers aim to capture evaders, poses a key challenge for UAV swarm intelligence. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has demonstrated potential in modeling cooperative behaviors, but most RL-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jiayu Chen , Chao Yu , Guosheng Li , Wenhao Tang , Shilong Ji , Xinyi Yang , Botian Xu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimization and learning for constrained and multi-objective Markov decision processes, for both discounted rewards and expected average rewards. We formulate the problems as zero-sum games where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Ather Gattami , Qinbo Bai , Vaneet Agarwal

In the case of the two-person zero-sum stochastic game with a central controller, this paper proposes a best collaborative behavior search and selection algorithm based on reinforcement learning, in response to how to choose the best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yunkai Wang , Shenhan Jia , Zexi Chen , Zheyuan Huang , Rong Xiong

We consider a class of two-player zero-sum stochastic games with finite state and compact control spaces, which we call stochastic shortest path (SSP) games. They are undiscounted total cost stochastic dynamic games that have a cost-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Huizhen Yu

The objective of this paper is to investigate the finite-time analysis of a Q-learning algorithm applied to two-player zero-sum Markov games. Specifically, we establish a finite-time analysis of both the minimax Q-learning algorithm and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Donghwan Lee

This paper considers a reach-avoid differential game in three-dimensional space with four equal-speed players. A plane divides the game space into a play subspace and a goal subspace. The evader aims at entering the goal subspace while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

In this paper, we propose a provably convergent and practical framework for multi-objective reinforcement learning with max-min criterion. From a game-theoretic perspective, we reformulate max-min multi-objective reinforcement learning as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Woohyeon Byeon , Giseung Park , Jongseong Chae , Amir Leshem , Youngchul Sung

This paper studies a multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem in which a group of pursuer robots are tasked with detecting an evader within a two dimensional polygonal environment. The primary contribution is a novel formulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Trevor Olsen , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

We consider a pursuit-evasion differential game with a Hybrid system of dynamics in Hilbert space with integral constraints on the control functions of players. We show that the pursuer has a winning strategy.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Mehdi Salimi

Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily fast evader. The best known complete algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Anne M. Tumlin , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

This paper investigates a partial-information pursuit evasion game in which the Pursuer has a limited-range sensor to detect the Evader. Given a fixed final time, we derive the optimal evasion strategy for the Evader to maximize its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Dipankar Maity , Alexander Von Moll , Daigo Shishika , Michael Dorothy

We present a framework that incorporates the idea of bounded rationality into dynamic stochastic pursuit-evasion games. The solution of a stochastic game is characterized, in general, by its (Nash) equilibria in feedback form. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Yue Guan , Dipankar Maity , Christopher M. Kroninger , Panagiotis Tsiotras

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

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning has recently shown the potential to outperform traditional approaches from autonomous navigation to robot manipulation. In this work, we focus on a motion planning task for an evasive target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zixuan Wu , Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Matthew C. Gombolay

Only limited studies and superficial evaluations are available on agents' behaviors and roles within a Multi-Agent System (MAS). We simulate a MAS using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in a pursuit-evasion (a.k.a predator-prey pursuit) game,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Piyush K. Sharma , Erin Zaroukian , Derrik E. Asher , Bryson Howell