Event‐triggered containment control for multi‐agent systems under hybrid cyber attacks

Abstract

Abstract This paper studies event‐triggered containment control problem of multi‐agent systems (MASs) under deception attacks and denial‐of‐service (DoS) attacks. First, to save limited network resources, an event‐triggered mechanism is proposed for MASs under hybrid cyber attacks. Different from the existing event‐triggered mechanisms, the negative influences of deception attacks and DoS attacks are considered in the proposed triggering function. The communication frequencies between agents are reduced. Then, based on the proposed event‐triggered mechanism, a corresponding control protocol is proposed to ensure that the followers will converge to the convex hull formed by the leaders under deception attacks and DoS attacks. Compared with the previous researches about containment control, in addition to hybrid cyber attacks being considered, the nonlinear functions related to the states of the agents are applied to describe the deception attack signals in the MAS. By orthogonal transformation of deception attack signals, the containment control problem under deception attacks and DoS attacks is reformulated as a stability problem. Then, the sufficient conditions on containment control can be obtained. Finally, a set of simulation example is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.