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Pursuit-evasion scenarios appear widely in robotics, security domains, and many other real-world situations. We focus on two-player pursuit-evasion games with concurrent moves, infinite horizon, and discounted rewards. We assume that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Karel Horák , Branislav Bošanský

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

We study the class of reach-avoid dynamic games in which multiple agents interact noncooperatively, and each wishes to satisfy a distinct target criterion while avoiding a failure criterion. Reach-avoid games are commonly used to express…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Dennis R. Anthony , Duy P. Nguyen , David Fridovich-Keil , Jaime F. Fisac

This work studies Stackelberg network interdiction games -- an important class of games in which a defender first allocates (randomized) defense resources to a set of critical nodes on a graph while an adversary chooses its path to attack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Tien Mai , Avinandan Bose , Arunesh Sinha , Thanh H. Nguyen

This extended abstracts presents a method to generate energy-optimal trajectories for multi-agent systems as a strategic-form game. Using recent results in optimal control, we demonstrate that an energy-optimal trajectory can be generated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Logan Beaver

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimum-time optimal control for a dynamical system with initial state uncertainties and propose a sequential convex programming (SCP) solution framework. We seek to minimize the expected terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Kazuya Echigo , Abhishek Cauligi , Behçet Açıkmeşe

Autonomous driving planning systems perform nearly perfectly in routine scenarios using lightweight, rule-based methods but still struggle in dense urban traffic, where lane changes and merges require anticipating and influencing other…

In this work, we extend the convex bodies chasing problem (CBC) to an adversarial setting, where an agent (the Player) is tasked with chasing a sequence of convex bodies generated adversarially by another agent (the Opponent). The Player…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Yue Guan , Longxu Pan , Daigo Shishika , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, a novel decentralized intelligent adaptive optimal strategy has been developed to solve the pursuit-evasion game for massive Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) under uncertain environment. Existing strategies for pursuit-evasion games…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Zejian Zhou , Hao Xu

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

Best response (BR) dynamics is a natural method by which players proceed toward a pure Nash equilibrium via a local search method. The quality of the equilibrium reached may depend heavily on the order by which players are chosen to perform…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Michal Feldman , Yuval Snappir , Tami Tamir

We consider a class of restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problems with unknown arm dynamics. At each time, a player chooses an arm out of N arms to play, referred to as an active arm, and receives a random reward from a finite set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Tomer Gafni , Kobi Cohen

Spacecraft equipped with multiple propulsion modes or systems can offer enhanced performance and mission flexibility compared with traditional configurations. Despite these benefits, the trajectory optimization of spacecraft utilizing such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jack Yarndley

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 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

Robotic systems must be able to quickly and robustly make decisions when operating in uncertain and dynamic environments. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) can be used to compute optimal policies with little prior knowledge about the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yunpeng Pan , Xinyan Yan , Evangelos Theodorou , Byron Boots

Best Response Dynamics (BRD) is a class of strategy updating rules to find Pure Nash Equilibria (PNE) in a game. At each step, a player is randomly picked, and the player switches to a "best response" strategy based on the strategies chosen…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Andrea Collevecchio , Tuan-Minh Nguyen , Ziwen Zhong

Surveillance-Evasion (SE) games form an important class of adversarial trajectory-planning problems. We consider time-dependent SE games, in which an Evader is trying to reach its target while minimizing the cumulative exposure to a moving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Elliot Cartee , Lexiao Lai , Qianli Song , Alexander Vladimirsky

Nonlinear trajectory optimization algorithms have been developed to handle optimal control problems with nonlinear dynamics and nonconvex constraints in trajectory planning. The performance and computational efficiency of many trajectory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Taewan Kim , Purnanand Elango , Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

The optimal design of multi-target rendezvous and flyby missions is challenging due to the combination of traditional spacecraft trajectory optimization and high-dimensional combinatorial problems. This often requires large-scale global…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jack Yarndley , Harry Holt , Roberto Armellin