Secure consensus of multi-agent systems with redundant signal and communication interference via distributed dynamic event-triggered control

This paper studies a class of multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to deception signal and communication interference. The objective of the present work is to establish a flexible and generalized distributed dynamic event-triggered control (DDETC) with impulsive signal to make the investigated MASs achieve secure consensus under redundant signal and communication interference. It is shown that Zeno behavior can be precluded with such a DDETC. The challenging but valuable new designed DDETC scheme shows the trigger is developed to achieve itself away from exceeding the data transmission load through parameter adjustment, to reduce redundant triggering, to flexibly adjust the triggered frequency, and even to replace sampled-data scheme as special cases. By the impulsive DDETC, anti deception and anti-interference techniques, the secure consensus criteria of MASs are constructed cleverly. Numerical examples with simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and control protocol. (C) 2020 ISA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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This paper proposes a new distributed dynamic event-triggered control (DDETC) scheme with impulsive signal to achieve secure consensus in multi-agent systems (MASs) under redundant signal and communication interference, effectively avoiding Zeno behavior. The designed DDETC scheme cleverly constructs secure consensus criteria for MASs using anti-deception and anti-interference techniques. Numerical examples with simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and control protocol.