Event-Based Secure Leader-Following Consensus Control for Multiagent Systems With Multiple Cyber Attacks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cybernetics Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 162 - 173
• Main Authors: Liu, Jinliang, Yin, Tingting, Yue, Dong, Karimi, Hamid Reza, Cao, Jinde
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.01.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bandwidths; Control systems; Cyberattack; Cybersecurity; Denial of service attacks; Denial-of-service attack; Event-triggered mechanism; leader-following consensus control; Linear matrix inequalities; Mathematical analysis; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; multiagent systems (MASs); multiple cyber attacks; Symmetric matrices; Topology
• ISSN: 2168-2267; 2168-2275; 2168-2275
• DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2020.2970556

This article concentrates on event-based secure leader-following consensus control for multiagent systems (MASs) with multiple cyber attacks, which contain replay attacks and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. A new multiple cyber-attacks model is first built by considering replay attacks and DoS attacks simultaneously. Different from the existing researches on MASs with a fixed topological graph, the changes of communication topologies caused by DoS attacks are considered for MASs. Besides, an event-triggered mechanism is adopted for mitigating a load of network bandwidth by scheduling the transmission of sampled data. Then, an event-based consensus control protocol is first developed for MASs subjected to multiple cyber attacks. In view of this, by using the Lyapunov stability theory, sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the mean-square exponential consensus of MASs. Furthermore, the event-based controller gain is derived by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, an example is simulated for confirming the effectiveness of the theoretical results.