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Distributed control increases system scalability, flexibility, and redundancy. Foundational to such decentralisation is consensus formation, by which decision-making and coordination are achieved. However, decentralised multi-agent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Agathe Bouis , Christopher Lowe , Ruaridh A. Clark , Malcolm Macdonald

Adversarial attacks during training can strongly influence the performance of multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms. It is, thus, highly desirable to augment existing algorithms such that the impact of adversarial attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Martin Figura , Yixuan Lin , Ji Liu , Vijay Gupta

This paper addresses novel consensus problems in the presence of adversaries that can move within the network and induce faulty behaviors in the attacked agents. By adopting several mobile adversary models from the computer science…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii , François Bonnet , Xavier Défago

This paper studies a consensus problem of multi-agent systems subjected to external disturbances over the clustered network. It considers that the agents are divided into several clusters. They are almost all the time isolated one from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Thiem V. Pham , Quynh T. T. Nguyen

Consensus of autonomous agents is a benchmark problem in multi-agent control. In this paper, we consider continuous-time averaging consensus policies (or Laplacian flows) and their discrete-time counterparts over time-varying graphs in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

We present distributed algorithms that can be used by multiple agents to align their estimates with a particular value over a network with time-varying connectivity. Our framework is general in that this value can represent a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Angelia Nedić , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo A. Parrilo

We study resilient quantized consensus in multi-agent systems, where some agents may malfunction. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued states, and the agents' communication is subject to asynchronous updates and time delays.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

This paper addresses novel consensus problems for multi-agent systems operating in an unreliable environment where adversaries are spreading. The dynamics of the adversarial spreading processes follows the susceptible-infected-recovered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii , François Bonnet , Xavier Défago

We consider resilient versions of discrete-time multi-agent consensus in the presence of faulty or even malicious agents in the network. In particular, we develop event-triggered update rules which can mitigate the influence of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii

Several algorithms in prior literature have been proposed which guarantee consensus of normally behaving agents in a network that may contain adversarially behaving agents. These algorithms guarantee that the consensus value lies within the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

In this paper, we address the discrete-time dynamic average consensus (DAC) of a multi-agent system in the presence of adversarial attacks. The adversarial attack is considered to be of Byzantine type, which compromises the computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Shamik Bhattacharyya , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

Due to the wide application of average consensus algorithm, its security and privacy problems have attracted great attention. In this paper, we consider the system threatened by a set of unknown agents that are both "malicious" and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Shuai Sun , Yilin Mo

In this paper, we study the robust consensus problem for a set of discrete-time linear agents to coordinate over an uncertain communication network, which is to achieve consensus against the transmission errors and noises resulted from the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhongkui Li , Jie Chen

Is there an equilibrium for distributed consensus when all agents except one collude to steer the decision value towards their preference? If an equilibrium exists, then an $n-1$ size coalition cannot do better by deviating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yehuda Afek , Itay Harel , Amit Jacob-Fanani , Moshe Sulamy

This work addresses the problem of ensuring trustworthy computation in a linear consensus network. A solution to this problem is relevant for several tasks in multi-agent systems including motion coordination, clock synchronization, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Fabio Pasqualetti , Antonio Bicchi , Francesco Bullo

We develop a framework for studying and quantifying the risk of cascading failures in time-delay consensus networks, motivated by a team of agents attempting temporal rendezvous under stochastic disturbances and communication delays. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Guangyi Liu , Vivek Pandey , Christoforos Somarakis , Nader Motee

This paper proposes a new approach that enables multi-agent systems to achieve resilient \textit{constrained} consensus in the presence of Byzantine attacks, in contrast to existing literature that is only applicable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Shreyas Sundaram

In this paper, we study the resilient vector consensus problem in networks with adversarial agents and improve resilience guarantees of existing algorithms. A common approach to achieving resilient vector consensus is that every…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Waseem Abbas , Mudassir Shabbir , Jiani Li , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Considering some predictive mechanisms, we show that ultrafast average-consensus can be achieved in networks of interconnected agents. More specifically, by predicting the dynamics of the network several steps ahead and using this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-12-06 Hai-Tao Zhang , Guy-Bart Stan , Michael ZhiQiang Chen , Jan M. Maciejowski , Tao Zhou

This paper studies the consensus problem for multiagent systems with transmission constraints. A novel model of multiagent systems is proposed where the information transmissions between agents are disturbed by irregular distortions or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Xiaotian Wang , Housheng Su