IJCAS

This paper develops a novel framework with hybrid-driven waiting mechanism (HDWM) of consensus control for multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of communication delays and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Different from the existing waiting mechanism, the proposed HDWM not only involves the event-driven mechanism, but also involves the time-driven mechanism. If DoS attacks causes partial information to be lost, the information in the buffer can still be transmitted to the controller to update the states of agent via the time-driven mechanism. Meanwhile, the communication delays and DoS attacks are considered in the proposed sampled-databased resilient controller. Under the proposed HDWM and resilient controller, the MASs can achieve consensus. Finally, the simulation example is conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: Communication delays, consensus control, DoS attacks, multi-agent systems, waiting mechanism.