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We study a pursuit-evasion game between a double integrator-driven pursuer with bounded velocity and bounded acceleration and a single integrator-driven evader with bounded velocity in a two-dimensional plane. The pursuer's goal is to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Zehua Zhao , Rui Yan , Jianping He , Xinping Guan , Xiaoming Duan

Understanding the dynamical structure of cislunar space beyond geosynchronous orbit is critical for both lunar exploration and for high-Earth-orbiting trajectories. In this study, we investigate the role of mean-motion resonances and their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Bhanu Kumar , Anjali Rawat , Aaron J. Rosengren , Shane D. Ross

We study a pursuit-evasion problem which can be viewed as an extension of the keep-away game. In the game, pursuer(s) will attempt to intersect or catch the evader, while the evader can visit a fixed set of locations, which we denote as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Weifu Wang , Ping Li

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

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

This article investigates the practical scenarios of chasing an adversarial evader in an unbounded environment with cluttered obstacles. We propose a Voronoi-based decentralized algorithm for multiple pursuers to encircle and capture the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xinyi Wang , Yulong Ding , Yizhou Chen , Ruihua Han , Lele Xi , Ben M. Chen

Many studies on one-on-one pursuit-evasion problems have shown that formulas about the pursuer's trajectory can be solved by supposing three conditions. First, the evader follows specific figures. Second, the pursuer's velocity vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Sota Yoshihara

This paper studies a 3D multiplayer reach-avoid differential game with a goal region and a play region. Multiple pursuers defend the goal region by consecutively capturing multiple evaders in the play region. The players have heterogeneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Rui Yan , Xiaoming Duan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong , Francesco Bullo

In classical works on a planar differential pursuit-evasion game with a faster pursuer, the intercept point resulting from the equilibrium strategies lies on the Apollonius circle. This property was exploited for the construction of the…

Given a mapped environment, we formulate the problem of visually tracking and following an evader using a probabilistic framework. In this work, we consider a non-holonomic robot with a limited visibility depth sensor in an indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Varun Chandra Jammula , Anshul Rai , Yezhou Yang

This paper proposes a nonlinear guidance algorithm for fuel-optimal impulsive trajectories for rendezvous operations close to a reference orbit. The approach involves overparameterized monomial coordinates and a high-order approximation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Omar Regantini , Ethan R. Burnett , Antonio Rizza , Alessandro Morselli , Francesco Topputo

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 consider a surveillance-evasion game in an environment with obstacles. In such an environment, a mobile pursuer seeks to maintain the visibility with a mobile evader, who tries to get occluded from the pursuer in the shortest time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

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

The rapid growth of cislunar activities, including lunar landings, the Lunar Gateway, and in-space refueling stations, requires advances in cost-efficient trajectory design and reliable integration of navigation and remote sensing.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Arsalan Muhammad , Wasiu Akande Ahmed , Omada Friday Ojonugwa , Paul Puspendu Biswas

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

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

Cislunar space is the volume between Earth's geosynchronous orbit and beyond the Moon, including the lunar Lagrange points. Understanding the stability of orbits within this space is crucial for the successful planning and execution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Denvir Higgins , Travis Yeager , Peter McGill , James Buchanan , Tara Grice , Alexx Perloff , Michael Schneider

Ransomware has yet to reach orbit, but the conditions for such an attack already exist. This paper presents the first game-theoretic framework for modeling ransomware against satellites: the orbital escalation game. In this model, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Efrén López-Morales

An analytical formulation for collision avoidance maneuvers involving a spacecraft and a space debris is presented, including solutions for the maximum deviation and minimum collision probability cases. Gauss' planetary equations and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-23 Juan Luis Gonzalo , Camilla Colombo , Pierluigi Di Lizia