Event-triggered Resilient Control Design for a Group of Connected AUVs in the Presence of DoS Attack

In this paper, a resilient controller is designed for connected autonomous vehicles against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The controller utilizes a sliding mode control structure, in conjunction with an event-triggered mechanism to reduce the network burden. The stability analysis is conducted using Lyapunov theory. The proposed controller aims to maintain the stability and performance of the connected autonomous vehicle system in the presence of DoS attacks, by continuously adjusting the control inputs and by reducing the network burden by using the event-triggered mechanism. The proposed approach is applied to the steering control subsystem of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, and the obtained results show that the proposed controller can effectively mitigate the impact of DoS attacks, reduce the network burden, and maintain the stability of the connected autonomous vehicles.