Asynchronous‐Based Bipartite Triggered Control for Insecure Multi‐Agent Systems

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the problem of memory‐event‐driven bipartite tracking consensus of delayed linear multi‐agent systems (MASs) within insecure cooperative and antagonistic interaction networks under scaling attacks. The study aims to address a more challenging and practical scenario of asynchronous communication. An effective approach of asynchronous memory‐event‐triggered control (METC) is proposed to overcome the security consensus problem of asynchronous scaling attacks on MASs with heterogeneous time‐varying input delays, which may result in either communication tampering or communication interruption on the interactive edge between agents. Furthermore, a distributed memory‐based delayed controller is designed to ensure exponential bipartite tracking consensus for the closed‐loop control system. Additionally, the memory‐based control gains under networked attacks are obtained using the Lyapunov functional method and Halanay inequality, and the upper bound for the allowable delay is established in the system stability analysis. Finally, the proposed control strategy and theoretical results are validated by simulation examples.