eess.SYJun 2, 2025

Captivity-Escape Games as a Means for Safety in Online Motion Generation

Authors: Christopher BohnManuel HessSören Hohmann

Organizations: Institute of Control Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Abstract

This paper addresses conservatism, limited numerical accuracy, and high computational effort in existing methods ensuring safety by design in online model-based motion generation. The presented method employs a novel captivity-escape zero-sum differential game to adapt the planning model's performance so that resulting reference trajectories are trackable within a prescribed safety margin by a jointly synthesized safety controller. A numerical example demonstrates orders-of-magnitude faster computation and improved numerical accuracy compared to the state of the art.

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