Conflict-controlled processes. Updated translation from the Russian by G. Ts. Chikrii and revised by the author

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The book is devoted to the theory of differential pursuit games. For the original see ``Conflict controlled processes, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 1992 (in Russian). The first chapter provides the theoretical background: some concepts and results of convex analysis and theory of set-valued maps, as well as some facts about linear control systems are presented there. The author formulates some known theorems in simplified weaker versions, apparently because their general formulations are not required in the sequel. The second chapter introduces the method of resolving functions, which is the main technical tool developed in the book. The idea is based on the first Pontryagin method of pursuit. The original Pontryagin method is formulated in terms of multi-valued functions and was created for studies of linear differential games. The method of resolving functions enables one to formulate similar sufficient conditions in terms of support and Minkowski gauge functions. The method is applicable to differential games whose dynamics are linear with respect to the state variables and nonlinear with respect to the control functions of the evader and pursuer. Several sufficient conditions for successful pursuit are obtained. The guaranteed time of the capture is compared to Pontryagin's time of capture. In the third chapter, the developed techniques are extended to several problems where a group of pursuers chase one evader. In the next chapter sufficient conditions for catching the evader by one pursuer for an arbitrary initial phase state are studied. In the fifth chapter the method of resolving functions is applied to the problem of successive capture of several evaders by one pursuer. Finally, in the last chapter the developed techniques are applied to the problem of capture of a group of evaders by a group of pursuers.




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