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How will the wolf catch the sheep in minimum time?

In $\mathbb{R}^2$, a wolf is trying to catch two sheep. At time $0$ the wolf's at $(0,0)$ and the sheep are at $(1,0)$. The animals are moving continuously and react instantaneously according to each ...
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How can I solve following cooperative differential game?

Consider a game-theoretic model of pollution control. There are 2 players join in the game, N = {1, 2}. Each player has an industrial production site. It is assumed that the production is proportional ...
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ODE equivalent to a system of Difference Equations (Discrete to Continuous time)

Consider the following gradient-descent ascent system of equations: $$\begin{cases} x_{k+1} = x_{k} - \eta \nabla_{x} g(x_{k}, y_{k}) \\ y_{k+1} = y_{k} + \eta \nabla_{y} g(x_{k+1}, y_{k}) \end{...
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Lion and Rabbit in a Cage — references

I am looking for references to a problem with the following approximate statement: There is a lion and a rabbit in cage $C$. At the initial time they are at locations $I_l$ and $I_r$, they have ...
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Zero-sum differential game

We consider a zero sum differnetial game. Let $x \in (0, M] \subset \mathbb R_{++}$ denote the state and $(u,v) \in [0,x]$ the control of player 1 and 2 respectively with $u + v \leq x$. Denote the ...
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Which way should you run from the lions?

This is a fun problem that I saw somewhere on the internet a long time ago: Suppose you are at the center of an equilateral triangle with side length $s$. At each of its vertices, there is a lion ...
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Run away from lions in a cage

I came across an interesting problem: There is a round cage and you are in it. Also two lions are in this cage too. The start position is that the distance between you and both lions is the ...
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