Event-Triggered Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Multiagent Systems With Hybrid Attacks

Abstract

In this study, the fault-tolerant consensus control (FTCC) challenge is investigated for nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) in the simultaneous occurrence of abrupt and incipient actuator/sensor faults in the physical level and hybrid Deception/Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in the cyber level. For security enhancement and/or safety maintenance purposes, an unknown state and fault decoupling-based augmented estimator is first devised, and a distributed event-triggered FTCC protocol is then developed to achieve strength against hostile attacks and faults, respectively, with the incorporation of augmented state estimation, neighboring sensor fault estimation, and latest successfully triggered output interaction. By constructing dual indicators along with average dwelling time and attack frequency technique, criteria of exponential mean-square consensus of the nonlinear MASs subject to hybrid attacks are obtained. In the end, simulation is outlined to illustrate the efficacy and improvements of the developed event-triggered FTCC methodology.