On Resilient Design of Cooperative Systems in Presence of Cyber-Attacks

This paper develops a resilient cooperative control system for leader-follower consensus problems subject to false data injection attacks. The attackers are assumed to inject unknown bounded exogenous signals to the actuators of followers and/or the communication networks of the leader and follower states. In order to attenuate the effects of such attacks on the consensus and stability of the system, we develop a cooperative control system augmented with a virtual network and interconnected with a leader and followers so that the leader-follower consensus is guaranteed under unknown attacks. A Lyapunov-based design framework is proposed to guarantee stability and leader-follower consensus against attacks. The effectiveness of the theoretical results is evaluated through a simulation example.