Adaptive architectures for resilient control of networked multiagent systems in the presence of misbehaving agents

作者：De La Torre Gerardo^*; Yucelen Tansel

来源：International Journal of Control, 2018, 91(3): 495-507.

DOI：10.1080/00207179.2017.1286040

• Networked multiagent systems
• resilient control
• distributed control
• adaptive control
• stability analysis
• directed and time-varying graph topologies

Control algorithms of networked multiagent systems are generally computed distributively without having a centralised entity monitoring the activity of agents; and therefore, unforeseen adverse conditions such as uncertainties or attacks to the communication network and/or failure of agent-wise components can easily result in system instability and prohibit the accomplishment of system-level objectives. In this paper, we study resilient coordination of networked multiagent systems in the presence of misbehaving agents, i.e. agents that are subject to exogenous disturbances that represent a class of adverse conditions. In particular, a distributed adaptive control architecture is presented for directed and time-varying graph topologies to retrieve a desired networked multiagent system behaviour. Apart from the existing relevant literature that make specific assumptions on the graph topology and/or the fraction of misbehaving agents, we show that the considered class of adverse conditions can be mitigated by the proposed adaptive control approach that utilises a local state emulator - even if all agents are misbehaving. Illustrative numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the theoretical findings.

• 出版日期2018
• 单位西北大学