Event-Triggered Model-Free Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems Under Jamming Attacks

This article addresses the security problem of tracking control for nonlinear multiagent systems against jamming attacks. It is assumed that the communication networks among agents are unreliable due to the existence of jamming attacks, and a Stackelberg game is introduced to depict the interaction process between multiagent systems and malicious jammer. First, the dynamic linearization model of the system is established by applying a pseudo-partial derivative method. Then, a novel model-free security adaptive control strategy is proposed, so that the multiagent systems can achieve bounded tracking control in the mathematical expectation sense in spite of jamming attacks. Furthermore, a fixed threshold event-triggered scheme is utilized to reduce communication cost. It is worth noting that the proposed methods only require the input and output information of the agents. Finally, the validity of the proposed methods is illustrated through two simulation examples.