Induced Attack Design on Trajectory over Clustered Network of First-Order Systems

This article explores the attacker's viewpoint on a strategy to induce attacks on clustered networks of first order multi-agent systems. Our proposed method could force the wide-area network to keep to a predetermined coordination trajectory, unlike the majority of current attacks. For the induced attack model, a hybrid ecosystem is first shown, that allows us to generate a certain synchronization trajectory. We derive an expression for this synchronization trajectory, which describes the movement trajectory of the wide-area network of clustered multi-agent systems under the induced attack. The resilient approach is employed to establish design criteria for the induced attack generation ecosystem. Finally, we present a simulation example to demonstrate the practical application of the proposed methodology.