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The application of distributed model predictive controllers (DMPC) for multi-agent systems (MASs) necessitates communication between agents, yet the consequence of communication data rates is typically overlooked. This work focuses on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Yujia Yang , Ye Wang , Chris Manzie , Ye Pu

We investigate convergence properties of a proposed distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme, where agents negotiate to compute an optimal consensus point using an incremental subgradient method based on primal decomposition as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2008-03-03 Tamas Keviczky , Karl Henrik Johansson

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

In this paper we propose a novel consensus protocol for discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS), which solves the dynamic consensus problem on the max value, i.e., the dynamic max-consensus problem. In the dynamic max-consensus problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Alessandro Giua

It is desirable but challenging to fulfill system constraints and reach optimal performance in consensus protocol design for practical multi-agent systems (MASs). This paper investigates the optimal consensus problem for general linear MASs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Huiping Li , Weisheng Yan , Yang Shi , Fuqiang Liu

This paper addresses the one-bit consensus of controllable linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with communication noises. A consensus algorithm consisting of a communication protocol and a consensus controller is designed. The communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Ru An , Ying Wang , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-Feng Zhang

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

We study the problem of resilient consensus of sampled-data multi-agent networks with double-integrator dynamics. The term resilient points to algorithms considering the presence of attacks by faulty/malicious agents in the network. Each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii

We propose a novel framework for designing a resilient Model Predictive Control (MPC) targeting uncertain linear systems under cyber attack. Assuming a periodic attack scenario, we model the system under Denial of Service (DoS) attack, also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Milad Farsi , Shuhao Bian , Nasser L. Azad , Xiaobing Shi , Andrew Walenstein

The paper proposes an intermittent communication mechanism for the tracking consensus of high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) surrounded by random disturbances. Each collaborating agent is described by a class of high-order…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Ali Azarbahram

This paper addresses the distributed consensus design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed communication graphs and external disturbances. Both the cases with strongly connected communication graphs and leader-follower…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan

This paper concerns the consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with linear or linearized dynamics. An observer-type protocol based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents is proposed. The consensus of such a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

We introduce a distributed algorithm, termed noise-robust distributed maximum consensus (RD-MC), for estimating the maximum value within a multi-agent network in the presence of noisy communication links. Our approach entails redefining the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ehsan Lari , Reza Arablouei , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Stefan Werner

This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs and external unmatched disturbances. A novel distributed adaptive consensus protocol is proposed to achieve…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Yuezu Lv , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Gang Feng

Existing data-driven control methods generally do not address False Data Injection (FDI) and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks simultaneously. This letter introduces a distributed data-driven attack-resilient consensus problem under both FDI…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yi Zhang , Bin Lei , Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Caiwen Ding , Shan Zuo

Accurate local state measurement is important to ensure the reliable operation of distributed multi-agent systems (MAS). Existing fault-tolerant control strategies generally assume the sensor faults to be bounded and uncorrelated. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Shan Zuo , Yi Zhang , Yichao Wang

A generalized family of Adversary Robust Consensus protocols is proposed and analyzed. These are distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems seeking to agree on a common value of a shared variable, even in the presence of faulty or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 David Angeli , Sabato Manfredi

In this work, we consider the consensus problem in which legitimate agents share their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of malicious or faulty agents. Different from the previous works, we characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Sarper Aydın , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

Ensuring resilient consensus in multi-robot systems with misbehaving agents remains a challenge, as many existing network resilience properties are inherently combinatorial and globally defined. While previous works have proposed control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haejoon Lee , Dimitra Panagou

This article proposes a secure implementation for consensus using a dynamic event-triggered (DET) communication scheme in high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MAS) under asynchronous (distributed) denial of service (DoS) attacks. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Ali Azarbahram , Amir Amini