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Abstract
Consensus is one of the fundamental distributed control technologies for collaboration in multi-agent systems such as collaborative handling in intelligent manufacturing. In this paper, we study the problem of resilient average consensus for multi-agent systems with misbehaving nodes. To protect consensus value from being influenced by misbehaving nodes, we address this problem by detecting misbehaviors, mitigating the corresponding adverse impact, and achieving the resilient average consensus. General types of misbehaviors are considered, including attacks, accidental faults, and link failures. We characterize the adverse impact of misbehaving nodes in a distributed manner via two-hop communication information and develop a deterministic detection compensation based consensus (D-DCC) algorithm with a decaying fault-tolerant error bound. Considering scenarios wherein information sets are intermittently available due to link failures, a stochastic extension named stochastic detection compensation based consensus (S-DCC) algorithm is proposed. We prove that D-DCC and S-DCC allow nodes to asymptotically achieve resilient accurate average consensus and unbiased resilient average consensus in a statistical sense, respectively. Then, the Wasserstein distance is introduced to analyze the accuracy of S-DCC. Finally, extensive simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (ISSN 2095-9184, monthly), formerly known as Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C (Computers & Electronics) (2010-2014), is an international peer-reviewed journal launched by Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Zhejiang University, co-published by Springer & Zhejiang University Press. FITEE is aimed to publish the latest implementation of applications, principles, and algorithms in the broad area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, including but not limited to Computer Science, Information Sciences, Control, Automation, Telecommunications. There are different types of articles for your choice, including research articles, review articles, science letters, perspective, new technical notes and methods, etc.