Differential games with open-loop saddle point conditions

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Schmitendorf
Author(s):  
João P. Hespanha

This chapter focuses on one-player continuous time dynamic games, that is, the optimal control of a continuous time dynamical system. It begins by considering a one-player continuous time differential game in which the (only) player wants to minimize either using an open-loop policy or a state-feedback policy. It then discusses continuous time cost-to-go, with the following conclusion: regardless of the information structure considered (open loop, state feedback, or other), it is not possible to obtain a cost lower than cost-to-go. It also explores continuous time dynamic programming, linear quadratic dynamic games, and differential games with variable termination time before concluding with a practice exercise and the corresponding solution.


Author(s):  
Goong Chen ◽  
Quan Zheng ◽  
Jian-Xin Zhou

SynopsisIn [13], Nikaido and Isoda generalised von Neumann's symmetrisation method for matrix games. They showed that N-person noncooperative games can be treated by a minimax method.We apply this method to N-person differential games. Lukes and Russell [11] first studied N-person nonzero sum linear quadratic games in 1971. Here we have reproduced and strengthened their results. The existence and uniqueness of equilibria are completely determined by the invertibility of the decision operator, and the nonuniqueness of equilibrium strategies is only up to a finite dimensional subspace of the space of all admissible strategies.In the constrained case, we have established an existence result for games with a much weaker convexity assumption subject to compact convex constraints. We have also derived certain results for games with noncompact constraints. Several examples of quadratic and non-quadratic games are given to illustrate the theorem.Numerical computations are also possible and are given in the sequel [3].


1999 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngo Van Long ◽  
Koji Shimomura ◽  
Harutaka Takahashi

1973 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Stern

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