Guarding a Target Area from a Heterogeneous Group of Cooperative Attackers

Autor: Lee, Yoonjae, Das, Goutam, Shishika, Daigo, Bakolas, Efstathios
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: In this paper, we investigate a multi-agent target guarding problem in which a single defender seeks to capture multiple attackers aiming to reach a high-value target area. In contrast to previous studies, the attackers herein are assumed to be heterogeneous in the sense that they have not only different speeds but also different weights representing their respective degrees of importance (e.g., the amount of allocated resources). The objective of the attacker team is to jointly minimize the weighted sum of their final levels of proximity to the target area, whereas the defender aims to maximize the same value. Using geometric arguments, we construct candidate equilibrium control policies that require the solution of a (possibly nonconvex) optimization problem. Subsequently, we validate the optimality of the candidate control policies using parametric optimization techniques. Lastly, we provide numerical examples to illustrate how cooperative behaviors emerge within the attacker team due to their heterogeneity.
Comment: This is the revised version of the paper, with the same title, to be presented at American Control Conference (ACC) 2024
Databáze: arXiv