Differential Hybrid Games

TL;DR

This paper introduces differential hybrid games, combining features of differential and hybrid games, and develops a logic framework with invariants for analyzing their properties.

Contribution

It extends differential game logic to include hybrid features and introduces invariants and variants for inductive reasoning about differential hybrid games.

Findings

Differential hybrid games unify differential and hybrid game models.

The paper develops a logic with modalities for differential hybrid dynamics.

It introduces differential game invariants and variants for property proofs.

Abstract

This article introduces differential hybrid games, which combine differential games with hybrid games. In both kinds of games, two players interact with continuous dynamics. The difference is that hybrid games also provide all the features of hybrid systems and discrete games, but only deterministic differential equations. Differential games, instead, provide differential equations with continuous-time game input by both players, but not the luxury of hybrid games, such as mode switches and discrete-time or alternating adversarial interaction. This article augments differential game logic with modalities for the combined dynamics of differential hybrid games. It shows how hybrid games subsume differential games and introduces differential game invariants and differential game variants for proving properties of differential games inductively.