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This paper develops a hierarchical games-in-games control architecture for hybrid stochastic systems governed by regime-switching jump-diffusions. We model the interplay between continuous state dynamics and discrete mode transitions as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Yunian Pan , Quanyan Zhu

This paper studies a two-person linear-quadratic-Gaussian pursuit-evasion differential game with costly but controlled information. One player can decide when to observe the other player's state. However, one observation of another player's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yunhan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

Recent advances in robotics have enabled the widespread deployment of autonomous robotic systems in complex operational environments, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and significant security problems. Traditional shepherding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wenqing Wang , Ye Zhang , Haoyu Li , Jingyu Wang

Contraction theory for dynamical systems on Euclidean spaces is well-established. For contractive (resp. semi-contractive) systems, the distance (resp. semi-distance) between any two trajectories decreases exponentially fast. For partially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

Hybrid dynamical systems are systems which posses both continuous and discrete transitions. Assuming that the discrete transitions (resets) occur a finite number of times, the optimal control problem can be solved by gluing together the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 William Clark , Maria Oprea , Aden Shaw

This paper proposes a dynamic game formulation for cooperative human-robot navigation in shared workspaces with obstacles, where the human and robot jointly satisfy shared safety constraints while pursuing a common task. A key contribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mark Pustilnik , Francesco Borrelli

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomous racing with multiple agents where agents must interact closely and influence each other to compete. We model interactions among agents through a game-theoretical framework and propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Yixuan Jia , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

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

Ecology and evolution are inherently linked, and studying a mathematical model that considers both holds promise of insightful discoveries related to the dynamics of cooperation. In the present article, we use the prisoner's dilemma (PD)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-10 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Srilena Kundu , Jeet Banerjee , Matjaž Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Image-conditioned Video diffusion models achieve impressive visual realism but often suffer from weakened motion fidelity, e.g., reduced motion dynamics or degraded long-term temporal coherence, especially after fine-tuning. We study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xi Ye , Wenjia Yang , Yangyang Xu , Xiaoyang Liu , Duo Su , Mengfei Xia , Jun Zhu

This paper is concerned with a three-level multi-leader-follower incentive Stackelberg game with $H_\infty$ constraint. Based on $H_2/H_\infty$ control theory, we firstly obtain the worst-case disturbance and the team-optimal strategy by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Na Xiang , Jingtao Shi

Predicting the outcomes of cyber-physical systems with multiple human interactions is a challenging problem. This article reviews a game theoretical approach to address this issue, where reinforcement learning is employed to predict the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Mert Albaba , Yildiray Yildiz

Differential game logic (dGL) is a logic for specifying and verifying properties of hybrid games, i.e. games that combine discrete, continuous, and adversarial dynamics. Unlike hybrid systems, hybrid games allow choices in the system…

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A fundamental task in mobile robotics is to keep an agent under surveillance using an autonomous robotic platform equipped with a sensing device. Using differential game theory, we study a particular setup of the previous problem. A…

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The dynamics by iteration of a function on a compact metric space, sometimes called a cascade, can be extended to the dynamics of a closed relation on such a space. Here we apply this relation dynamics to study semiflows (and their relation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Ethan Akin

We consider a dynamic version of sender-receiver games, where the sequence of states follows an irreducible Markov chain observed by the sender. Under mild assumptions, we provide a simple characterization of the limit set of equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Jerome Renault , Eilon Solan , Nicolas Vieille

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

Learning from a partner who collects higher payoff is a frequently used working hypothesis in evolutionary game theory. One of the alternative dynamical rules is when the focal player prefers to follow the strategy choice of the majority in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-14 Attila Szolnoki , Xiaojie Chen

This paper studies a pursuit-evasion problem involving a single pursuer and a single evader, where we are interested in developing a pursuit strategy that doesn't require continuous, or even periodic, information about the position of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Saad A. Aleem , Cameron Nowzari , George J. Pappas

Reach-avoid differential games play an important role in collision avoidance, motion planning and control of aircrafts, and related applications. The central problem is the computation of the set of initial states from which the ego player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Bai Xue , Qiuye Wang , Naijun Zhan , Martin Fränzle , Shenghua Feng