Distributed Secure Platoon Control of Connected Vehicles Subject to DoS Attack: Theory and Application

• Published in: IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Systems Vol. 51; no. 11; pp. 7269 - 7278
• Main Authors: Zhang, Dan, Shen, Ye-Ping, Zhou, Si-Quan, Dong, Xi-Wang, Yu, Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Automation; Connected vehicles; Decoupling method; Denial of service attacks; denial-of-service (DoS) attacks; Denial-of-service attack; nonuniform sampled-data; platoon control; Platooning; Sampling; switched time-delay system; Switches; Systems design; Time delay systems; Topology; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles
• ISSN: 2168-2216; 2168-2232
• DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2020.2968606

This article addresses the distributed secure platoon control of connected vehicles with denial-of-service (DoS) attack phenomena, which may occur at some sampling time instant. First, a switched time-delay system model is introduced, which captures the time-varying sampling and the DoS attack phenomena simultaneously. Then, sufficient conditions are obtained based on the Lyapunov stability theory, the Jensen's Inequality method, and the topology matrix decoupling technique, such that the vehicle platoon system under consideration achieves an exponential tracking performance. In this article, the presented system design conditions establish several quantitative relationships between attack parameters and system performance. Moreover, the critical values of attack frequency (AF) and the sampling interval (SI) are also derived, respectively. Finally, both of the simulation and experiment studies on a network of four vehicles are introduced to validate the design.