Distributed Secure Control for Nonlinear Descriptor Multiagent Systems With Unknown Inputs Under Denial-of-Service Attacks

This article investigates the secure control problem for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear descriptor multiagent systems (MASs) with unknown inputs under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. In order to address the presence of unknown state variables and external disturbances in both the state and output equations, a local unknown input observer (UIO) is developed for each follower agent. The proposed UIO is capable of simultaneously estimating the system state, measurement noise and unknown inputs through an interval observer. With regards to DoS attacks, we consider two types: those that maintain connectivity and those that paralyze it by disrupting the structure of the information communication topology graph. By utilizing the proposed UIO, a distributed compensation controller is designed to achieve asymptotic consensus for leader-following MASs under DoS attacks. Additionally, a comprehensive stability analysis of the closed-loop system is provided, taking into account switching systems. Finally, two simulation examples are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed UIO-based distributed secure control scheme.