English
Related papers

Related papers: Resilient Average Consensus with Adversaries via D…

200 papers

Average consensus protocols emerge with a central role in distributed systems and decision-making such as distributed information fusion, distributed optimization, distributed estimation, and control. A key advantage of these protocols is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Guilherme Ramos , A. Pedro Aguiar , Soummya Kar , Sérgio Pequito

This paper presents the formulation and analysis of a fully distributed dynamic event-triggered communication based robust dynamic average consensus algorithm. Dynamic average consensus problem involves a networked set of agents estimating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Jemin George , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang

This paper presents continuous dynamic average consensus (DAC) algorithms for a group of agents to estimate the average of their time-varying reference signals cooperatively. We propose consensus algorithms that are robust to agents joining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Solomon Gudeta , Ali Karimoddini , Mohammadreza Davoodi

We study distributed average consensus problems in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. The goal of distributed average consensus is for the nodes, each associated with some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In this paper we study the distributed average consensus problem in multi-agent systems with directed communication links that are subject to quantized information flow. Specifically, we present and analyze a distributed averaging algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Apostolos I. Rikos , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we study the problem of resilient consensus for a multi-agent network where some of the nodes might be adversarial, attempting to prevent consensus by transmitting faulty values. Our approach is based on that of the so-called…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

This paper studies the problem of finding the median of N distinct numbers distributed across networked agents. Each agent updates its estimate for the median from noisy local observations of one of the N numbers and information from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Shuhua Yu , Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar

We consider a multi-agent system where agents aim to achieve a consensus despite interactions with malicious agents that communicate misleading information. Physical channels supporting communication in cyberphysical systems offer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Michal Yemini

Consider a network whose nodes have some initial values, and it is desired to design an algorithm that builds on neighbor to neighbor interactions with the ultimate goal of convergence to the average of all initial node values or to some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Mahmoud El Chamie , Ji Liu , Tamer Başar

In this paper, we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of communication links that change dynamically over time. Open multi-agent systems exhibiting the aforementioned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

This paper studies the resilient distributed recovery of large fields under measurement attacks, by a team of agents, where each measures a small subset of the components of a large spatially distributed field. An adversary corrupts some of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Many algorithms have been proposed in prior literature to guarantee resilient multi-agent consensus in the presence of adversarial attacks or faults. The majority of prior work present excellent results that focus on discrete-time or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

This paper presents an adversary detection mechanism and a resilient control framework for multi-agent systems under spatiotemporal constraints. Safety in multi-agent systems is typically addressed under the assumption that all agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Aquib Mustafa , Dimitra Panagou

Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

Distributed learning paradigms, such as federated and decentralized learning, allow for the coordination of models across a collection of agents, and without the need to exchange raw data. Instead, agents compute model updates locally based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Stefan Vlaski , Christian Schroth , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

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

A cyber security problem in a networked system formulated as a resilient graph problem based on a game-theoretic approach is considered. The connectivity of the underlying graph of the network system is reduced by an attacker who removes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, we study the continuous-time consensus problem in the presence of adversaries. The networked multi-agent system is modeled as a switched system, where the normal agents have integrator dynamics and the switching signal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Heath J. LeBlanc , Haotian Zhang , Shreyas Sundaram , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This paper presents distributed algorithmic solutions that employ opportunistic inter-agent communication to achieve dynamic average consensus. In our solutions each agent is endowed with a local criterion that enables it to determine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

The problem of consensus in the presence of misbehaving agents has increasingly attracted attention in the literature. Prior results have established algorithms and graph structures for multi-agent networks which guarantee the consensus of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-28 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou