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Event-trigger-based consensus secure control of linear multi-agent systems under DoS attacks over multiple transmission channels

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This paper proposes a consensus secure control scheme in the presence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks based on an event-trigger mechanism. In contrast to a scenario in which attacks are the same and simultaneously paralyze all channels, the DoS attack addressed in this paper occurs aperiodically and results in the independent interruption of multiple transmission channels. A sufficient condition for the attack duration is designed and a distributed event-triggered control scheme is proposed, where the updated instants are triggered aperiodically to reduce the required communication resources. It is shown that the overall system is stable with the proposed scheme according to the Lyapunov stability theory and that Zeno behavior is excluded. Finally, a numerical example is presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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  1. College of Automation & College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Yang Yang, Yanfei Li & Dong Yue

  2. Institute of Advanced Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Dong Yue

  3. Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Control for Active Distribution Network, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Yang Yang & Dong Yue

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Yang, Y., Li, Y. & Yue, D. Event-trigger-based consensus secure control of linear multi-agent systems under DoS attacks over multiple transmission channels. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 63, 150208 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-019-2687-7

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