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This paper studies open-loop and feedback solutions to leader-follower mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian games with multiplicative noise by the direct approach. The leader-follower game involves a leader and many followers, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

We consider the problem of learning discriminative representations for data in a high-dimensional space with distribution supported on or around multiple low-dimensional linear subspaces. That is, we wish to compute a linear injective map…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Druv Pai , Michael Psenka , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Manxi Wu , Edgar Dobriban , Yi Ma

We consider a class of pursuit-evasion differential games in which the evader has continuous access to the pursuer's location, but not vice-versa. There is an immobile sensor (e.g., a ground radar station) that can sense the evader's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Dipankar Maity

A variety of practical problems can be modeled by the decision-making process in multi-player games where a group of self-interested players aim at optimizing their own local objectives, while the objectives depend on the actions taken by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Yuanhanqing Huang , Jianghai Hu

In multi-agent dynamic games, the Nash equilibrium state trajectory of each agent is determined by its cost function and the information pattern of the game. However, the cost and trajectory of each agent may be unavailable to the other…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Jingqi Li , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Lasse Peters , Somayeh Sojoudi , Claire Tomlin , David Fridovich-Keil

Desensitization addresses safe optimal planning under parametric uncertainties by providing sensitivity function-based risk estimates. This paper expands upon the existing work on desensitization in optimal control to address safe planning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Vinodhini Comandur , Tulasi Ram Vechalapu , Venkata Ramana Makkapati , Panagiotis Tsiotras , Seth Hutchinson

Pursuit-evasion differential games using the Disturbance Attenuation approach are revisited. Under this approach, the pursuer actions are considered to be control actions, whereas all external actions, such as target maneuvers, measurement…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Barak Or , Joseph Z. Ben-Asher , Isaac Yaesh

We present a robust framework with computational algorithms to support decision makers in sequential games. Our framework includes methods to solve games with complete information, assess the robustness of such solutions and, finally,…

Computation · Statistics 2024-02-22 Tahir Ekin , Roi Naveiro , Alberto Torres-Barrán , David Ríos-Insua

Indirect trajectory optimization methods such as Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) have found considerable success when only planning under dynamic feasibility constraints. Meanwhile, nonlinear programming (NLP) has been the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Sumeet Singh , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Vikas Sindhwani

In this paper, a time-optimal feedback solution to the game of two cars, for the case where the pursuer is faster and more agile than the evader, is presented. The concept of continuous subsets of the reachable set is introduced to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Aditya Chaudhari , Debraj Chakraborty

The interdiction of escaping adversaries in urban networks is a critical security challenge. State-of-the-art game-theoretic models, such as the Escape Interdiction Game (EIG), provide comprehensive frameworks but assume a highly dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sukanya Samanta , Manohar Reddy

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

Traditional game-theoretic research for security applications primarily focuses on the allocation of external protection resources to defend targets. This work puts forward the study of a new class of games centered around strategically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Niclas Boehmer , Minbiao Han , Haifeng Xu , Milind Tambe

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

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

In this paper, we explore the discrete time sparse feedback control for a linear invariant system, where the proposed optimal feedback controller enjoys input sparsity by using a dynamic linear compensator, i.e., the components of feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Zhicheng Zhang , Yasumasa Fujisaki

We study mean field games and corresponding $N$-player games in continuous time over a finite time horizon where the position of each agent belongs to a finite state space. As opposed to previous works on finite state mean field games, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Alekos Cecchin , Markus Fischer

In this paper, we investigate a pursuit-evasion game in which a mobile observer tries to track a target in an environment containing obstacles. We formulate the game as an optimal control problem with state inequality constraint in a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Rui Zou , Hamid Emadi , Sourabh Bhattacharya

We study a pursuit-evasion game between two players with car-like dynamics and sensing limitations by formalizing it as a partially observable stochastic zero-sum game. The partial observability caused by the sensing constraints is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Burak M. Gonultas , Volkan Isler

We study deterministic optimal control problems for differential games with finite horizon. We propose new approximations of the strategies in feedback form, and show error estimates and a convergence result of the value in some weak sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Olivier Bokanowski , Xavier Warin