A novel adaptive event‐triggered security consensus control mechanism for leader‐following multi‐agent systems under hybrid random cyber attacks.

Aiming at the security consensus control problem of leader‐following multi‐agent systems (MASs) under hybrid random cyber attack, this article proposes a novel sampled information related adaptive event‐triggered control mechanism (SIRAETCM). While ensuring the safety performance of the MASs, the mechanism adaptively and dynamically adjusts the trigger threshold of every agent to achieve discontinuous communication by using only the current and latest sampled signals. According to the MASs communication mode and Bernoulli attack model, a security consensus control protocol is constructed, and a bilateral sampled‐interval Lyapunov functional (BSILF) method is introduced to obtain more sampling interval information and establish sufficient conditions for the leader‐following state error system to stabilize asymptotically under hybrid random cyber attacks. Meanwhile, under a large sampling interval, the controller gain and adaptive event‐triggered parameters are designed and obtained. The simulation of the tunnel diode circuit system shows that the SIRAETCM can reduce the number of communications between agents to improve bandwidth utilization, and the adopted safety cooperative control protocol can improve the safety and effectiveness of the MASs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]