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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01636v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:15:37 GMT
• Title: A Forward-Inverse Dynamic Game Framework for Enhanced Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning
• Abstract summary: We propose a KL-regularized dynamic game with a state-dependent weight that adaptively balances optimality and behavioral priors.<n>We establish per-it well-posedness of the regularized local game and show that the adaptive weighting function remains Lipschitz continuous under bounded nominal-trajectory updates.
• Score: 10.027004863448854
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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.

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