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This paper studies a variant of multi-player reach-avoid game played between intruders and defenders. The intruder team tries to score by sending as many intruders as possible to the target area, while the defender team tries to minimize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Daigo Shishika , Vijay Kumar

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

This paper studies a variant of the multi-player reach-avoid game played between intruders and defenders with applications to perimeter defense. The intruder team tries to score by sending as many intruders as possible to the target area,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Daigo Shishika , James Paulos , Vijay Kumar

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

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 considers an online multi-player resource-sharing game with bandit feedback. Multiple players choose from a finite collection of resources in a time slotted system. In each time slot, each resource brings a random reward that is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mevan Wijewardena , Michael. J Neely

This paper studies a target-defense game played between a slow defender and a fast attacker. The attacker wins the game if it reaches the target while avoiding the defender's capture disk. The defender wins the game by preventing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Goutam Das , Michael Dorothy , Zachary I. Bell , Daigo Shishika

We consider a search and rescue game introduced recently by the first author. An immobile target or targets (for example, injured hikers) are hidden on a graph. The terrain is assumed to dangerous, so that when any given vertex of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Thomas Lidbetter , Yifan Xie

A defender dispatches patrollers to circumambulate a perimeter to guard against potential attacks. The defender decides on the time points to dispatch patrollers and each patroller's direction and speed, as long as the long-run rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Kyle Y Lin

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

This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to address the problem of optimal sensor placement against an adversary in uncertain networked control systems. The problem is formulated as a zero-sum game with two players, namely a malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Patrolling is one of the central problems in operational security. Formally, a patrolling problem is specified by a set $U$ of nodes (admissible defender's positions), a set $T \subseteq U$ of vulnerable targets, an admissible defender's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Tomáš Brázdil , Petr Hliněný , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Řehák , Matúš Abaffy

We introduce a pursuit game played between a team of a sensor and an attacker and a mobile target in the unbounded Euclidean plane. The target is faster than the sensor, but slower than the attacker. The sensor's objective is to keep the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Prajakta Surve , Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Alexander Von Moll , Isaac Weintraub , David W. Casbeer

We propose a decentralized solution for a pursuit-evasion game involving a heterogeneous group of rational (selfish) pursuers and a single evader based on the framework of potential games. In the proposed game, the evader aims to delay (or,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

This letter employs differential game theory to address the defense problem of a circular target area with perception constraints, involving a single defender and a single attacker. The defender is restricted to moving along the perimeter,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Xinyi Zhu , Jiali Wang , Yang Tang , Fangfei Li , Yan Zhu

Interdicting a criminal with limited police resources is a challenging task as the criminal changes location over time. The size of the large transportation network further adds to the difficulty of this scenario. To tackle this issue, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sukanya Samanta , Kei Kimura , Makoto Yokoo , Palash Dey

This work considers a multiplayer reach-avoid game between two adversarial teams in a general convex domain which consists of a target region and a play region. The evasion team, initially lying in the play region, aims to send as many its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

This work studies a dynamic, adversarial resource allocation problem in environments modeled as graphs. A blue team of defender robots are deployed in the environment to protect the nodes from a red team of attacker robots. We formulate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Daigo Shishika , Yue Guan , Michael Dorothy , Vijay Kumar

We study a class of games, in which the adversary (attacker) is to satisfy a complex mission specified in linear temporal logic, and the defender is to prevent the adversary from achieving its goal. A deceptive defender can allocate decoys,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Huan Luo , Charles A. Kamhoua , Nandi O. Leslie

In this paper, we analyse a misere tree searching game, where players take turns to guess vertices in a tree with a secret `poisoned' vertex. After each turn, the guessed vertex is removed from the tree and the game continues on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ben Andrews