Reliable cooperative control and plug-and-play operation for networked heterogeneous systems under cyber–physical attacks

Abstract

This paper considers a reliable cooperative control and plug-and-play operation problem in networked heterogeneous systems (NHSs), and focuses on the scenario subjected to physical attack-induced actuator failures/uncertainties and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on communication channels between physical nodes. To solve it, a new self-feedback control with an adaptive integral sliding-mode compensator is developed. The new one configures each heterogeneous system under the malicious actuator failures/uncertainties to be passivity-short (PS). The PS index quantifies the impact of each attacked heterogeneous dynamics on their networked operations. Furthermore, based on cloud networks, a novel network-level distributed control is proposed. It improves robustness of the systems against DoS with no frequency and duration constraints. And then, a technical condition is presented with the aid of the impact equivalence principle. Under the condition, the self-feedback and network-level controls designed separately but performed together ensure the leader–follower consensus and plug-and-play operation of the attacked NHSs. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by flight control systems.