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Preprint Aug 2026

A Forward-Inverse Dynamic Game Framework for Enhanced Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning

This paper studies feedback Nash equilibrium (FBNE) seeking for multi-agent trajectory planning in nonlinear dynamical systems with unknown agents'objectives and state-dependent inter-agent coupling. While dynamic game theory provides a principled framework for such problems, existing approaches typically assume fully rational agents with known objectives or rely on fixed regularization, limiting their ability to capture bounded rationality and spatially varying interaction intensity in safety-critical settings. To this end, we propose a KL-regularized dynamic game with a state-dependent weight that adaptively balances optimality and behavioral priors. To infer unknown cost parameters from demonstrated behaviors, we develop a context-aware inverse game module based on maximum-entropy inverse reinforcement learning with physics-informed regularization, ensuring structural consistency with the forward game. We establish per-iteration well-posedness of the regularized local game and show that the adaptive weighting function remains Lipschitz continuous under bounded nominal-trajectory updates. Numerical simulations and multi-robot experiments on cooperative navigation and merging scenarios validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

Tianle Liu, Youcheng Niu, Jing Zeng et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

VLM-MPPI: Grounding Natural Language in Behaviorally Diverse Trajectories for Aerial Navigation

We present a hierarchical UAV navigation framework that aligns natural-language intent with dynamically feasible flight behaviors in cluttered indoor environments. To bridge the gap between abstract semantics and low-level control, we employ a parallelized ensemble of six behavior-conditioned Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) planners. Crucially, by designing mode-specific guiding costs and sampling biases, we induce distinct trajectory modes that converge to unique behavioral means, yielding a compact set of intentionally diverse candidates rather than mere stochastic variations. We project these 3D candidates onto the onboard first-person-view RGB stream, turning language grounding into a visual action selection problem. A pretrained vision--language model (VLM) asynchronously selects the candidate index given the overlaid FPV image and a natural-language prompt, while MPPI replans at 20Hz and a PID-based low-level controller tracks the selected trajectory. We implement the full pipeline in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and on a real-world quadrotor platform equipped with LiDAR and RGB sensing. Experiments in both simulation and real-world flights show semantically meaningful behavior diversity, robust language alignment despite VLM latency, and safe, repeatable flight across all modes, achieving 100% task success in our evaluated scenarios.

Hanbing Zhang, Fang-Guo Zhao, Ze-Rui Li et al. · 0 citations

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