Event-triggered based security consensus control for multi-agent systems with DoS attacks

Abstract

This work devotes to the security consensus problems for time-varying multi-agent systems (MASs) based on event-triggered control method with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and parameter uncertainties. During information transmission, DoS attacks exist in both control and measurement channels, regarded as a dwell-time switching scheme, and hence the augmented system can be transformed into a class of discrete-time switched system subject to dwell-time property which contains an unstable and a stable subsystem. To increase the utilization of communication resources, the control input signal can be updated by adopting a novel event-driven mechanism with state-dependent threshold over a given finite horizon. By utilizing multiple Lyapunov functions analysis strategy, two sufficient conditions are obtained to achieve the desired H∞ consensus performance. The cone complementary linearization algorithm is employed to cope with the nonlinear terms, and the desired controller gain matrices are calculated via resolving the corresponding linear matrix inequalities. Finally, the effectiveness of this proposed method is verified by providing a simulation example and the multi-automobile system.