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In the Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) differential game, an Attacker missile strives to capture a Target aircraft. The Target tries to escape the Attacker and is aided by a Defender missile which aims at intercepting the Attacker before the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Meir Pachter

In this paper an N-pursuer vs. M-evader team conflict is studied. The differential game of border defense is addressed and we focus on the game of degree in the region of the state space where the pursuers are able to win. This work extends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Alexander Von Moll , Meir Pachter

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

This paper considers a subspace guarding game in high-dimensional space which consists of a play subspace and a target subspace. Two faster defenders cooperate to protect the target subspace by capturing an attacker which strives to enter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

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

An operational relevant conflict between teams of autonomous vehicles in the Beyond Visual Range domain is addressed in this paper. Optimal strategies are designed in order for a team of air interceptors to protect a high value asset and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Dzung Tran , Meir Pachter

This work in progress considers reachability-based safety analysis in the domain of autonomous driving in multi-agent systems. We formulate the safety problem for a car following scenario as a differential game and study how different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Gilbert Bahati , Marsalis Gibson , Alexandre Bayen

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

Corrigibility of autonomous agents is an under explored part of system design, with previous work focusing on single agent systems. It has been suggested that uncertainty over the human preferences acts to keep the agents corrigible, even…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Edmund Dable-Heath , Boyko Vodenicharski , James Bishop

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

We study pursuit-evasion differential games between a faster pursuer moving in 3D space and an evader moving in a plane. We first extend the well-known Apollonius circle to 3D space, by which we construct the isochron for the considered two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Shuai Li , Chen Wang , Guangming Xie

Ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems is challenging when agents have distinct, possibly conflicting objectives and lack full knowledge of each other's strategies. This is apparent in safety-critical applications such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Francesco Bianchin , Robert Lefringhausen , Elisa Gaetan , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche

Achieving mission objectives in a realistic simulation of aerial combat is highly challenging due to imperfect situational awareness and nonlinear flight dynamics. In this work, we introduce a novel 3D multi-agent air combat environment and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ardian Selmonaj , Giacomo Del Rio , Adrian Schneider , Alessandro Antonucci

In this article an $n$-pursuer versus $m$-evader reach-avoid differential game in 3D space is studied. A team of evaders aim to reach a stationary target while avoiding capture by a team of pursuers. The multiplayer scenario is formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Abinash Agasti , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy , Bharath Bhikkaji

Many robotic applications involve interactions between multiple agents where an agent's decisions affect the behavior of other agents. Such behaviors can be captured by the equilibria of differential games which provide an expressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Talha Kavuncu , Ayberk Yaraneri , Negar Mehr

The active target defense differential game is addressed in this paper. In this differential game an Attacker missile pursues a Target aircraft. The aircraft is however aided by a Defender missile launched by, say, the wingman, to intercept…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Meir Pachter

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 work, we investigate a security game between an attacker and a defender, originally proposed in \cite{emadi2019security}. As is well known, the combinatorial nature of security games leads to a large cost matrix. Therefore,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 HAmid Emadi , Sourabh Bhattacharya

Generating competitive strategies and performing continuous motion planning simultaneously in an adversarial setting is a challenging problem. In addition, understanding the intent of other agents is crucial to deploying autonomous systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hongrui Zheng , Zhijun Zhuang , Stephanie Wu , Shuo Yang , Rahul Mangharam

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
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