Observer-based impulsive consensus control of nonlinear multi-agent systems under denial-of-service attacks.

This paper is concerned with the distributed impulsive consensus problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, where the information of agent states is not fully available in the impulsive control design. To reconstruct the states of MASs and guarantee secure average consensus, a novel observer-based impulsive secure control protocol is put forward, and some sufficient conditions are derived by means of linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique and Lyapunov method. It should be pointed out that both the proposed state observer and control protocol adjust the state value abruptly at some discrete instants in an impulsive manner. Moreover, the considered asynchronous DoS attack model can allow jam each channel independently, under which the decay rates of different attack modes are estimated. Finally, two simulation examples, including a practical control system, verify the effectiveness of the proposed consensus algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]