Impulsive consensus of leader-following nonlinear multi-agent systems under DoS attacks

Abstract

This paper investigates impulsive consensus of nonlinear multi-agent systems in the leader-following framework subject to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The case that the communication network suffers from DoS attacks is considered, which will destroy the communication link, resulting in switching topologies. Based on the assumption that the system can recover from DoS attacks, sufficient conditions on the design of the impulse interval and the impulse attack ratio that the system can sustain is provided. A numerical example is given to validate the effectiveness of our theoretical results.