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Resilient Memory Event-triggered Consensus Control for Multi-agent Systems with Aperiodic DoS Attacks

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This work addresses the memory event-triggered consensus control design problems of multi-agent systems (MASs) under actuator failures and aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. In order to overcome an unpredictable traffic in the network communication channel, an appropriate memory event-triggered scheme (METS) is proposed. The purpose of this scheme is to utilize certain release packets to create new event compared with the existing event-triggered scheme (ETS). In this fashion, the event generator can achieve accurate decision as well as better performance of the control can be expected. Further, a new switched approach is established to describe the consensus performance of system model with aperiodic DoS attacks. By incorporating the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF), adequate constraints of the consensus for MASs are derived. Based on the obtained conditions, the consensus control gain matrices are presented by utilizing the technique of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Eventually, simulation results are given to validate the applicability of the proposed theoretical results which is based on the F-18 aircraft model systems.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grants MOST 109-2636-E-006-019, MOST 110-2636-E-006-005, and MOST 111-2636-E-006-004.

Murugesan Sathishkumar received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Government Arts College, Coimbatore in 2009, and received his M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in mathematics from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science affiliated to Bharathiar University, India, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2018. From 2013 to 2014, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Christ the King Engineering College, Coimbatore, India. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. His current research interests include networked control system and its security control, multi-agent systems, and time-delay systems.

Yen-Chen Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. His research interests include control of networked robotic systems, bilateral teleoperation, multi-robot systems, mobile robot network, and human-robot interaction. Dr. Liu was the recipient of the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, 2016, Kwoh-Ting Li Researcher Award, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2018, and Young Scholar Fellowship — Columbus Program, MOST, Taiwan, 2019.

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Sathishkumar, M., Liu, YC. Resilient Memory Event-triggered Consensus Control for Multi-agent Systems with Aperiodic DoS Attacks. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 20, 1800–1813 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-021-0380-x

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