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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

This paper presents an algorithm to deploy a team of {\it free} guards equipped with omni-directional cameras for tracking a bounded speed intruder inside a simply-connected polygonal environment. The proposed algorithm partitions the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hamid Emadi , Tianshuang Gao , Sourabh Bhattacharya

In this paper, we address a pursuit-evasion game involving multiple players by utilizing tools and techniques from reinforcement learning and matrix game theory. In particular, we consider the problem of steering an evader to a goal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Jhanani Selvakumar , Efstathios Bakolas

We present a numerical approach to finding optimal trajectories for players in a multi-body, asset-guarding game with nonlinear dynamics and non-convex constraints. Using the Iterative Best Response (IBR) scheme, we solve for each player's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Emmanuel Sin , Murat Arcak , Douglas Philbrick , Peter Seiler

In a multi-robot system, a number of autonomous robots would sense, communicate, and decide to move within a given domain to achieve a common goal. In this paper, we consider a new variant of the pursuit-evasion problem in which the robots…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Mohammad Ghodsi , Salma Sadat Mahdavi , Ali Narenji Sheshkalani

We study a variant of pursuit-evasion game in the context of perimeter defense. In this problem, the intruder aims to reach the base plane of a hemisphere without being captured by the defender, while the defender tries to capture the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Elijah S. Lee , Daigo Shishika , Vijay Kumar

The value of cooperation in pursuit-evasion games is investigated. The considered setting is that of three pursuers chasing one evader in a planar environment. The optimal evader trajectory for a well-known decentralized pursuer strategy is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Marco Casini , Andrea Garulli

We consider a scenario where a team of two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) pursue an evader UAV within an urban environment. Each agent has a limited view of their environment where buildings can occlude their field-of-view. Additionally,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Addison Kalanther , Daniel Bostwick , Chinmay Maheshwari , Shankar Sastry

Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily fast evader. The best known complete algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Anne M. Tumlin , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

In this paper, we present a dual-layer online optimization strategy for defender robots operating in multiplayer reach-avoid games within general convex environments. Our goal is to intercept as many attacker robots as possible without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Junwei Liu , Zikai Ouyang , Jiahui Yang , Hua Chen , Haibo Lu , Wei Zhang

In this paper we investigate a differential game in which countably many dynamical objects pursue a single one. All the players perform simple motions. The duration of the game is fixed. The controls of a group of pursuers are subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Mehdi Salimi , Gafurjan Ibragimov , Stefan Siegmund , Somayeh Sharifi

This paper explores a multi-agent containment problem, where a fast evader, modeled having constant speed and using constant heading, attempts to escape a circular containment region that is orbited by a slower pursuer with a nonzero…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Braulio Mora , Alexander Von Moll , Isaac Weintraub , David Casbeer , Animesh Chakravarthy

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

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

This paper addresses a critical aerial defense challenge in contested airspace, involving three autonomous aerial vehicles -- a hostile drone (the pursuer), a high-value drone (the evader), and a protective drone (the defender). We present…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Shivam Bajpai , Abhinav Sinha , Shashi Ranjan Kumar

We study a pursuit-evasion differential game with finite number of pursuers and one evader in Hilbert space with geometric constraints on the control functions of players. We solve the game by presenting explicit strategies for pursuers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Mehdi Salimi , Massimiliano Ferrara

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

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

We study versions of cop and robber pursuit-evasion games on the visibility graphs of polygons, and inside polygons with straight and curved sides. Each player has full information about the other player's location, players take turns, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Anna Lubiw , Jack Snoeyink , Hamideh Vosoughpour

Pursuit-evasion games (PEGs) model interactions between a team of pursuers and an evader in graph-based environments such as urban street networks. Recent advancements have demonstrated the effectiveness of the pre-training and fine-tuning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Pengdeng Li , Shuxin Li , Xinrun Wang , Jakub Cerny , Youzhi Zhang , Stephen McAleer , Hau Chan , Bo An