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Distributed Model Predictive Control with Connectivity-based Contracts

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Teams of mobile robots rely on continuous communication with their neighbors for coordination, yet most distributed model predictive control (DMPC) schemes assume the communication network stays connected rather than actively enforcing it. Adding such a guarantee is hard since the usual mathematical condition for connectivity is nonconvex and links every agent to every other, which is incompatible with a scalable distributed real-time controller. We propose a DMPC framework in which each agent is assigned a connectivity contract: a local region prescribing where its predicted positions may lie

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