Distributed Observer-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Consensus of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems Under DoS Attacks and Output Disturbance

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cybernetics Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yanhui, Wang, Gang, Sun, Jian, Li, Hongyi, He, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.03.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptive consensus control; Adaptive control; Backstepping; Closed loops; Consensus control; Control systems design; Denial of service attacks; denial-of-service (DoS) attacks; Denial-of-service attack; Feedback control; fuzzy distributed observer; Multiagent systems; Nonlinear control; nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs); Nonlinear systems; Nonlinearity; Observers; output disturbance; Output feedback; Saturation; Sun; Topology; Transient analysis
• ISSN: 2168-2267; 2168-2275; 2168-2275
• DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2022.3200403

This article studies the adaptive output-feedback consensus control problem of nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The attacks on the edges instead of nodes are considered, where we allow different attack intensities but at least one edge is connected in each attacking interval. Affected by output disturbance, the sensor feedback signal of every agent is inaccurate, which will reduce the approximation accuracy of the observer. Then, we design a signal to revise the sensor feedback signal subject to disturbance. Meanwhile, a prescribed performance function is used to ensure the transient and steady-state performance of error. Leveraging the Lyapunov stability theory and the backstepping technique, a distributed output-feedback control scheme subject to asymmetric saturation nonlinearity is designed. For the asymmetric input saturation, an auxiliary signal is designed to simplify the designed progress of controller input. To deal with the inherent problem of "explosion of complexity" emerging with backstepping, dynamic surface control is utilized. It is proved that the consensus errors converge to small neighborhoods of the origin, and all signals within the closed-loop system are bounded. Finally, simulation results are offered to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.