Maritime Capture the Flag (MCTF) is a multi-agent real-time strategy game that is implemented on a marine multi-agent simulator with support for hardware deployment. The game involves several challenges in the areas of coordination and communication between competing teams of multiple agents in an adversarial environment while emphasizing safe autonomy and sim-to-real transition.

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Check out some of the strategies from MCTF 2024 in this paper.

• Improved vehicle dynamics to better match USVs
• Configurable short term and long term history observation space
• Full game state including position coordinates and headings for easier heuristic algorithm implementation
• Longer tagging cooldown time (60 seconds) to encourage agents to capture opponents flag