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Stochastic Multi-Objective Kinodynamic Planning Against Adversaries

Thomas Marshall Vielmetti, Daniel Cherenson, Dimitra Panagou

arxiv Score 11.8

Published 2026-07-21 · First seen 2026-07-22

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This paper addresses multi-objective kinodynamic planning in environments with stochastic hybrid adversaries that probabilistically transition to adversarial modes based on the ego state. The goal is to construct the Pareto-front of paths that trade off execution cost and the probability of safety constraint violation (risk). Existing chance-constrained planners evaluate risk over open-loop trajectories, yielding overly conservative solutions that fail to account for ego-agent reactivity. To address this limitation, we shift the planning space to sequences of closed-loop policies, and integrate sample-based risk evaluation directly into tree construction via Monte-Carlo particle rollouts. We first introduce Stochastic Multi-Objective RRT (SMO-RRT), for which we prove probabilistic completeness, followed by Stochastic Multi-Objective Stable Sparse RRT (SMO-SST), which leverages selective pruning to improve numerical performance at the cost of completeness. For both algorithms, we derive a finite-sample bound on the probability of chance constraint violation for systems with non-Gaussian, state-dependent uncertainty, enabling probabilistically safe planning in a broad class of environments applicable to multi-agent systems, social navigation, and autonomous driving.

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@article{vielmetti2026stochastic,
  title = {Stochastic Multi-Objective Kinodynamic Planning Against Adversaries},
  author = {Thomas Marshall Vielmetti and Daniel Cherenson and Dimitra Panagou},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {This paper addresses multi-objective kinodynamic planning in environments with stochastic hybrid adversaries that probabilistically transition to adversarial modes based on the ego state. The goal is to construct the Pareto-front of paths that trade off execution cost and the probability of safety constraint violation (risk). Existing chance-constrained planners evaluate risk over open-loop trajectories, yielding overly conservative solutions that fail to account for ego-agent reactivity. To add},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19284},
  keywords = {cs.RO},
  eprint = {2607.19284},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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