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Risk-Aware Input-Constrained Safe Intercept Guidance Against Multiple Moving Defenders
Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan Cao +2
This paper develops a risk-aware guidance law for an attacker to intercept a stationary target in the presence of multiple moving defenders while respecting the control input limit…
Interception-Driven Inverse Reachability for Engagement Zone Construction
Grant Stagg, Cameron K. Peterson, Alexander Von Moll +1
In contested environments, autonomous vehicles may need to plan around adversarial pursuers whose launch locations are unknown. This paper presents an interception-driven inverse-r…
Combining Reinforcement Learning with Arc-search Interior-Point Method for Path Planning
Yaguang Yang, Qiang Le, Isaac E. Weintraub
Path planning in environments containing obstacles has numerous practical applications. The problem is challenging because it is inherently nonlinear and nonconvex. Consequently, a…
Path Planning Using Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Qiang Le, Yaguang Yang, Isaac E. Weintraub
Path-planning for autonomous vehicles in threat-laden environments is a fundamental challenge because the problem is nonlinear and nonconvex even in simplest scenarios. While tradi…
Collaborative Threat-Aware Autonomy (CTAA)
Rajnikant Sharma, Abhinav Sinha, Isaac Weintraub
Navigating teams of unmanned vehicles through environments containing dynamic, adversarial Weapon Engagement Zones~(WEZs) poses a fundamental challenge to mission success: a single…
A Comparison of Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control Methods for Path Planning
Qiang Le, Yaguang Yang, Isaac E. Weintraub
Path-planning for autonomous vehicles in threat-laden environments is a fundamental challenge. While traditional optimal control methods can find ideal paths, the computational tim…
Reactive Vehicle Guidance using Dynamic Maneuvering Cue
Alexander Von Moll, Isaac Weintraub
Recent approaches for navigating among dynamic threat regions (i.e., weapon engagement zones) have focused on planning entire trajectories. Moreover, the allowance for penetration…
Probabilistic Weapon Engagement Zones for a Turn Constrained Pursuer
Grant Stagg, Isaac E. Weintraub, Cameron K. Peterson
Curve-straight probabilistic engagement zones (CSPEZ) quantify the spatial regions an evader should avoid to reduce capture risk from a turn-rate-limited pursuer following a curve-…
Mutual Support by Sensor-Attacker Team for a Passive Target
Prajakta Surve, Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Alexander Von Moll +2
We introduce a pursuit game played between a team of a sensor and an attacker and a mobile target in the unbounded Euclidean plane. The target is faster than the sensor, but slower…
Safe Navigation in the Presence of Range-Limited Pursuers
Thomas Chapman, Alexander Von Moll, Isaac E. Weintraub
This paper examines the degree to which an evader seeking a safe and efficient path to a target location can benefit from increasing levels of knowledge regarding one or more range…
One-vs-one Threat-Aware Weaponeering with Basic Engagement Zones
Alexander Von Moll, Dejan Milutinović, Isaac Weintraub +1
In this paper we address the problem of 'weaponeering', i.e., placing the weapon engagement zone (WEZ) of a vehicle on a moving target, while simultaneously avoiding the target's W…
Engagement Zones for a Turn Constrained Pursuer
Thomas Chapman, Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander Von Moll +1
This work derives two basic engagement zone models, describing regions of potential risk or capture for a mobile vehicle by a pursuer. The pursuer is modeled as having turn-constra…
Min-Time Escape of a Dubins Car from a Polygon
Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander Von Moll, David Casbeer +3
A turn constrained vehicle is initially located inside a polygon region and desires to escape in minimum time. First, the method of characteristics is used to describe the time-opt…
Minimum Time Escape from a Circular Region of a Dubins Car
Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander Von Moll, Meir Pachter
A turn-constrained evader strives to escape a circular region in minimum time.
Multi Agent Pathfinding for Noise Restricted Hybrid Fuel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Drew Scott, Satyanarayana G. Manyam, David W. Casbeer +2
Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks the optimal set of paths for multiple agents from respective start to goal locations such that no paths conflict. We address the MAPF problem…
Pursuit-Evasion on a Sphere and When It Can Be Considered Flat
Dejan Milutinovic, Alexander Von Moll, Satyanarayana G. Manyam +3
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.…
Sampling-Based Risk-Aware Path Planning Around Dynamic Engagement Zones
Artur Wolek, Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander Von Moll +2
Existing methods for avoiding dynamic engagement zones (EZs) and minimizing risk leverage the calculus of variations to obtain optimal paths. While such methods are deterministic,…
Noise Aware Path Planning and Power Management of Hybrid Fuel UAVs
Drew Scott, Satyanarayana G. Manyam, Isaac E. Weintraub +2
Hybrid fuel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), through their combination of multiple energy sources, offer several advantages over the standard single fuel source configuration, the p…
Basic Engagement Zones
Alexander Von Moll, Isaac E. Weintraub
This paper establishes a more formal definition for an Engagement Zone (EZ) and derives some basic EZs associated with fundamental engagement models associated with pursuit-evasion…
Escape from an Orbiting Pursuer with a Nonzero Capture Radius
Braulio Mora, Alexander Von Moll, Isaac Weintraub +2
This paper explores a multi-agent containment problem, where a fast evader, modeled having constant speed and using constant heading, attempts to escape a circular containment regi…
Virtual Target Selection for a Multiple-Pursuer Multiple-Evader Scenario
Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander Von Moll, David W. Casbeer +1
This paper considers an M-pursuer N-evader scenario involving virtual targets. The virtual targets serve as an intermediary target for the pursuers, allowing the pursuers to delay…
Optimal Trajectories for Multiple-UAS Simultaneous Target Acquisition with Obstacle Avoidance
Michael D. Zollars, David J. Grymin, Isaac E. Weintraub
This work develops feasible path trajectories for a coordinated strike with multiple aircraft in a constrained environment. Using direct orthogonal collocation methods, the two-poi…
Development of Linear Battery Model for Path Planning with Mixed Integer Linear Programming: Simulated and Experimental Validation
Drew Scott, Satyanarayana G. Manyam, David W. Casbeer +3
Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are often used in the path planning of both ground and aerial vehicles. Such a formulation of the path planning problem requires a linear obje…
Determining Follower Aircraft's Optimal Trajectory in Relation to a Dynamic Formation Ring
Carl A. Gotwald, Michael D. Zollars, Isaac E. Weintraub
The specific objective of this paper is to develop a tool that calculates the optimal trajectory of the follower aircraft as it completes a formation rejoin, and then maintains the…