Conflict-Predictive Variable Horizons in Multi-Drone Distributed Model Predictive Control

The paper introduces a conflict‑predictive variable horizon for distributed model predictive control in multi‑drone collision avoidance. Each drone locally estimates future conflicts using observed positions and confidence funnels, then selects the minimal horizon that covers the farthest predicted conflict, shrinking in clear air and expanding only when necessary. The authors prove that this adaptive horizon preserves recursive feasibility and asymptotic stability for linear models, and demonstrate in simulation that it reduces per‑step solver cost and total computation while maintaining separation on dense benchmarks.

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• robotics
• benchmarks