Title : 
On a class of pursuit-evasion problems
         
        
            Author : 
Jacob, J.P. ; Polak, Elijah
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
12/1/1967 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper shows that a pursuit-evasion problem can be made amenable to solution with nonlinear programming algorithms by operating the pursuer and evader systems in a "discrete" mode of control and by choosing the cost function judiciously.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Differential games; Nonlinear programming; Acceleration; Code standards; Continuous time systems; Equations; Linear programming; Linearity; Minimax techniques; Optimal control; Pressure control; Vectors;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TAC.1967.1098742