Distributed resilient flocking control of multi‐agent systems through event/self‐triggered communication

Abstract This paper proposes a distributed control scheme for multi‐agent systems to achieve resilient flocking behaviour via event‐based communication. The control scheme can provide the required connectivity conditions to form a flock in the presence of cyberattacks in the network. This method is...

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Main Authors: Neda Amirian, Saeed Shamaghdari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-03-01
Series:IET Control Theory & Applications
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/cth2.12061
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Summary:Abstract This paper proposes a distributed control scheme for multi‐agent systems to achieve resilient flocking behaviour via event‐based communication. The control scheme can provide the required connectivity conditions to form a flock in the presence of cyberattacks in the network. This method is presented in a fully distributed manner to avoid the use of global data. The developed event‐triggered update rules can mitigate the influence of the non‐cooperative agents with the weighted mean subsequence‐reduced algorithm and reduce unnecessary communication among them. It is proved that under the proposed method, convergence is guaranteed and there is no Zeno behaviour exhibited inherently. To relax the requirement of continuous monitoring of self‐state, a self‐triggered mechanism is proposed further. Simulation results are given to illustrate the theoretical analysis and show the advantages of the event‐ and self‐triggered controllers.
ISSN:1751-8644
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