Chapter 5
Secure Control of Distributed Multiagent Systems
5.1 Introduction
In the last few years, the consensus problem of multi-agent systems has received compelling attention in the control and system community due to its broad applications in many areas, such as unmanned vehicles [459], formation control [461] and flocking [468]. The basic objective of consensus is to design protocols, based on local information of agents, which guarantee that the states of all agents converge to a common value. The consensus protocol was initially designed for systems of first-order agents [469] and then extended to systems of second-order dynamics; see, e.g., [476], [472], [478] and references therein.
It has been shown that the first-order consensus ...
