Event-Triggered Distributed State Estimation for Multiagent Systems Under DoS Attacks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cybernetics Vol. 52; no. 7; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Sun, Yuan-Cheng, Yang, Guang-Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.07.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Decay rate; Denial of service attacks; Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks; Denial-of-service attack; distributed state estimation; Dynamic stability; Estimation error; event-triggered strategy; Liapunov functions; Linear systems; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; multiagent systems (MASs); Observers; Security; State estimation; Sun; Switches
• ISSN: 2168-2267; 2168-2275; 2168-2275
• DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2020.3034456

This article investigates the problem of event-triggered distributed state estimation for linear multiagent systems under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. In contrast to the previous studies where the agents have access to the measurements of their own states, an estimation algorithm is provided based on the measurements relative to the adjacent agents, and the considered DoS attacks jam each channel independently while the attack durations are constrained. To estimate the states and effectively schedule the information transmissions over the network possibly subject to malicious attacks, a prediction-based switching observer scheme with an event-triggered communication strategy is proposed, and the invalidation problem of the event-triggering mechanism caused by the DoS attacks is solved. Based on the decay rates of the Lyapunov function corresponding to different transmission modes, sufficient conditions for the stability of the estimation error dynamics are presented in the presence of DoS attacks. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is demonstrated by simulation results.