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We propose a hybrid approach that combines Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability and mixed-integer optimization for solving a reach-avoid game with multiple attackers and defenders. The reach-avoid game is an important problem with potential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Hanyang Hu , Minh Bui , Mo Chen

Autonomous navigation is a fundamental task for robot vacuum cleaners in indoor environments. Since their core function is to clean entire areas, robots inevitably encounter dead zones in cluttered and narrow scenarios. Existing planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Han Zheng , Jiale Zhang , Mingyang Jiang , Peiyuan Liu , Danni Liu , Tong Qin , Ming Yang

This paper investigates the encirclement control problem involving two groups using a non-cooperative differential game approach. The active group seeks to chase and encircle the passive group, while the passive group responds by fleeing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Panpan Zhou , Yueyue Xu , Yibei Li , Bo Wahlberg , Xiaoming Hu

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

With the increasing use of robots in daily life, there is a growing need to provide robust collaboration protocols for robots to tackle more complicated and dynamic problems effectively. This paper presents a novel, factor graph-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Messiah Abolfazli Esfahani , Ayşe Başar , Sajad Saeedi

This paper addresses multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where a group of drones cooperates to capture a fast evader in a confined environment with obstacles. Existing heuristic algorithms, which simplify the pursuit-evasion problem, often lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jiayu Chen , Guosheng Li , Chao Yu , Xinyi Yang , Botian Xu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Reach-avoid (RA) games have significant applications in security and defense, particularly for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These problems are inherently challenging due to the need to consider obstacles, consider the adversarial nature…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Minh Bui , Simon Monckton , Mo Chen

This letter presents a density function based safe control synthesis framework for the pursuit-evasion problem. We extend safety analysis to dynamic unsafe sets by formulating a reach-avoid type pursuit-evasion differential game as a robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Mustafa Bozdag , Arya Honarpisheh , Mario Sznaier

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

This paper introduces the concept of trajectory encryption in cooperative simultaneous target interception, wherein heterogeneity in guidance principles across a team of unmanned autonomous systems is leveraged as a strategic design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Lohitvel Gopikannan , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

In this paper, we address pursuit-evasion problems involving multiple pursuers and multiple evaders. The pursuer and the evader teams are assumed to be heterogeneous, in the sense that each team has agents with different speed capabilities.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Venkata Ramana Makkapati , Panagiotis Tsiotras

As mobile service robots increasingly coexist with pedestrians, ensuring passively safe behaviour during confined emergency evacuations is critical. Existing multi-robot yielding strategies often focus solely on collision avoidance and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ning Zhou , Edmund R. Hunt , Nikolai W. F. Bode

In this paper, we present a game-theoretic feedback terminal guidance law for an autonomous, unpowered hypersonic pursuit vehicle that seeks to intercept an evading ground target whose motion is constrained in a one-dimensional space. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas , Maruthi R. Akella

In this study, we consider a multi-pursuer single-evader quantitative pursuit-evasion game with payoff function that includes only the terminal cost. The terminal cost is a function related only to the terminal position of the evader. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Weiwen Huang , Li Liang , Ningsheng Xu , Fang Deng

A Differential Drive Robot (DDR) located inside a circular detection region in the plane wants to escape from it in minimum time. Various robotics applications can be modeled like the previous problem, such as a DDR escaping as soon as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ubaldo Ruiz

We investigate a variation of the art gallery problem in which a team of mobile guards tries to track an unpredictable intruder in a simply-connected polygonal environment. In this work, we use the deployment strategy for diagonal guards…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Guillermo J. Laguna , Rui Zou , Sourabh Bhattacharya

Guidance commands of flight vehicles are a series of data sets with fixed time intervals, thus guidance design constitutes a sequential decision problem and satisfies the basic conditions for using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xiao Hu , Tianshu Wang , Min Gong , Shaoshi Yang

Pursuit-evasion is the problem of capturing mobile targets with one or more pursuers. We use deep reinforcement learning for pursuing an omni-directional target with multiple, homogeneous agents that are subject to unicycle kinematic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cristino de Souza , Rhys Newbury , Akansel Cosgun , Pedro Castillo , Boris Vidolov , Dana Kulic

Computing worst-case robust strategies in pursuit-evasion games (PEGs) is time-consuming, especially when real-world factors like partial observability are considered. While important for general security purposes, real-time applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Runyu Lu , Ruochuan Shi , Yuanheng Zhu , Dongbin Zhao

This paper presents a novel planning and control strategy for competing with multiple vehicles in a car racing scenario. The proposed racing strategy switches between two modes. When there are no surrounding vehicles, a learning-based model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Suiyi He , Jun Zeng , Koushil Sreenath