Volume 33, Issue 6 pp. 3607-3626
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Secure formation control for resilient multi-agent cyber-physical systems under DoS attacks and faults

Yishi Liu

Yishi Liu

School of Cyber Science and Technology, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

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Xiwang Dong

Corresponding Author

Xiwang Dong

Institute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

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Xiwang Dong, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.

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Zhang Ren

Zhang Ren

School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

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Jianwei Liu

Jianwei Liu

School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, China

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First published: 14 February 2023
Citations: 9

Funding information: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 61873011, 61922008, 61973013, 62103016, 62103023, 62203032, U2241217; Science and Technology Innovation 2030-Key Project of “New Generation Artificial Intelligence”, Grant/Award Number: 2020AAA0108200; Science and Technology on Space Intelligent Control Laboratory, Grant/Award Number: 6142208200310; Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST, Grant/Award Number: 2021QNRC001

Abstract

A distributed cyber-security and fault tolerance formation problem is considered in this paper. This is done though a multi-agent system in which all agents concentrate on a formation reference function and accomplish a desired time-varying formation even in the presence of malicious attacks and multiple faults. To achieve the resilient control task, a distributed control protocol using an event-triggered technique and active reconfigurable strategy is proposed in the face of adverse effects for the overall system. When denial of service is launched by adversaries, the attack parameters are bounded by analyzing the Lyapunov stability theorem and the property of the Laplacian matrix. To improve the capability of fault-tolerance, an observer-based fault estimator is used to calculate fault values. The simulation results validate that the presented scheme can perfectly address the distributed formation issue with faults over attack intervals.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

There is no conflict of interest for our results.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The availability of data for our manuscript “Secure formation control for resilient multi-agent cyber-physical systems under DoS attacks and faults” is “Data available on request from the authors”. That is, the data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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