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We introduce a model for multi-agent interaction problems to understand how a heterogeneous team of agents should organize its resources to tackle a heterogeneous team of attackers. This model is inspired by how the human immune system…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Christopher D. Hsu , Mulugeta A. Haile , Pratik Chaudhari

Provably safe and scalable multi-vehicle path planning is an important and urgent problem due to the expected increase of automation in civilian airspace in the near future. Although this problem has been studied in the past, there has not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Mo Chen , Somil Bansal , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

Finding optimal adversarial attack strategies is an important topic in reinforcement learning and the Markov decision process. Previous studies usually assume one all-knowing coordinator (attacker) for whom attacking different recipient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ziqing Lu , Guanlin Liu , Lifeng Lai , Weiyu Xu

With the continuous advancement in autonomous systems, it becomes crucial to provide robust safety guarantees for safety-critical systems. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis is a formal verification method that guarantees performance and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Qian Wang , Tianhao Wu

We consider a variant of the target defense problem in a planar conical environment where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming attackers. The attackers' objective is to breach the target boundary without being…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Arman Pourghorban , Dipankar Maity

This paper is concerned with the reconnaissance game that involves two mobile agents: the Intruder and the Defender. The Intruder is tasked to reconnoiter a territory of interest (target region) and then return to a safe zone (retreat…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

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

Provably safe and scalable multi-vehicle trajectory planning is an important and urgent problem. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is an ideal tool for analyzing such safety-critical systems and has been successfully applied to several…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Somil Bansal , Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

We consider a variant of the target defense problem where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming intruders. Both the defender and the intruders have non-holonomic dynamics. The intruders' objective is to breach the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Arman Pourghorban , Dipankar Maity

Training agents in multi-agent competitive games presents significant challenges due to their intricate nature. These challenges are exacerbated by dynamics influenced not only by the environment but also by opponents' strategies. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 The Viet Bui , Tien Mai , Thanh Hong Nguyen

We study two-player multi-weighted reachability games played on a finite directed graph, where an agent, called P1, has several quantitative reachability objectives that he wants to optimize against an antagonistic environment, called P2.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Thomas Brihaye , Aline Goeminne

We address a problem of area protection in graph-based scenarios with multiple mobile agents where connectivity is maintained among agents to ensure they can communicate. The problem consists of two adversarial teams of agents that move in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Marika Ivanová , Pavel Surynek , Diep Thi Ngoc Nguyen

This paper considers a pursuit-evasion scenario among three agents -- an evader, a pursuer, and a defender. We design cooperative guidance laws for the evader and the defender team to safeguard the evader from an attacking pursuer. Unlike…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Abhinav Sinha , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Dwaipayan Mukherjee

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis is a powerful framework for ensuring safety and performance in autonomous systems. However, existing methods typically rely on a white-box dynamics model of the system, limiting their applicability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Vamsi Krishna Chilakamarri , Zeyuan Feng , Somil Bansal

Multi-agent navigation in unknown and cluttered environments has broad applications, yet remains fundamentally challenging. In particular, dense agent-agent and agent-obstacle reactive interactions can exacerbate the inherent competition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Fenglan Wang , Xinguo Shu , Lei He , Lin Zhao

We consider a variant of the target defense problem where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming intruders. The intruders' objective is to breach the target boundary without being captured by the defender. As soon as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Arman Pourghorban , Michael Dorothy , Daigo Shishika , Alexander Von Moll , Dipankar Maity

Safety is an important topic in autonomous driving since any collision may cause serious injury to people and damage to property. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is a formal method that verifies safety in multi-agent interaction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Anjian Li , Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mo Chen

Recently, there has been immense interest in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civilian operations. As a result, unmanned aerial systems traffic management is needed to ensure the safety and goal satisfaction of potentially…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Mo Chen , Qie Hu , Jaime Fisac , Kene Akametalu , Casey Mackin , Claire Tomlin

We consider a variant of pursuit-evasion games where a single defender is tasked to defend a static target from a sequence of periodically arriving intruders. The intruders' objective is to breach the boundary of a circular target without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Arman Pourghorban , Dipankar Maity

In this article, we consider the infinite-horizon reach-avoid (RA) and stabilize-avoid (SA) zero-sum game problems for general nonlinear continuous-time systems, where the goal is to find the set of states that can be controlled to reach or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Boyang Li , Zheng Gong , Sylvia Herbert