heuristic artificial bee colony algorithm for solving the homicidal chauffeur differential game

In this paper, we consider the homicidal chauffeur (hc) problem as an interesting and practical differential game. at first, we introduce a bilevel optimal control problem (bocp) and prove that a saddle point solution for this game exists if and only if this bocp has an optimal solution in which the optimal value of the objective function is equal to 1. then, bocp is discretized and converted to a nonlinear bilevel programming problem. finally, an artificial bee colony (abc) algorithm is used for solving this problem, in which the lower-level problem will be considered as a constraint and solved by an nlp-solver. finally, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented method, various cases of hc problem are solved and the simulation results are reported.