The complete differential game of active target defense

DOI10.1007/S10957-021-01816-ZzbMATH Open1482.91028arXiv2002.04054OpenAlexW3126195429MaRDI QIDQ2055352FDOQ2055352

Meir Pachter, David W. Casbeer, Eloy Garcia

Publication date: 1 December 2021

Published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) differential game, an Attacker missile strives to capture a Target aircraft. The Target tries to escape the Attacker and is aided by a Defender missile which aims at intercepting the Attacker before the latter manages to close in on the Target. The conflict between these intelligent adversaries has been suitably modeled as a zero-sum differential game. Optimal strategies have been synthesized covering the region of the state space where the Target/Defender team is able to win the game. However, the Game of Degree in the Attacker's region of win has not been fully addressed. Preliminary attempts at designing the players' strategies have not been proven to be optimal in the differential game sense. The main results of the paper present the optimal strategies of the Game of Degree in the Attacker's winning region of the state space. It is proven that the obtained strategies provide the saddle-point solution of the game; the Value function is obtained and it is shown to be continuous and continuously differentiable. It is also demonstrated that it is the solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) equation. Finally, the obtained strategies are compared to recent results addressing the TAD differential game in [22]. It is shown by counterexample that the strategies proposed in [22] are not optimal. The unique regular solution of this differential game that actually provides a semipermeable Barrier surface is synthesized and verified in this paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04054

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential games (aspects of game theory) (91A23)

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