Leader-Following Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems Under DoS Attacks and Average Dwell Time Switching Topology

This article studies the leader-following consensus problem of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and switching topology. The problem that all edges of one follower are blocked under each attack is considered in this work. By using the multiple Lyapunov functions approach and average dwell time switching technique, a piecewise consensus protocol is designed. Sufficient conditions are established for the consensus of linear MAS. Moreover, the lower bound of average dwell time of the switching topology is determined under DoS attacks. Finally, we provided simulations to validate our theoretical finding.