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Resilient Consensus in Open Multi-Agent Systems

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The advancements in resilient consensus research largely relied on the assumption of a time-invariant agent set, limiting their applicability in dynamic environments. This paper extends the resilient consensus problem to a more dynamic setting by incorporating agent arrivals and departures, modeling an open multi-agent system. To ensure resilient consensus in such systems, we propose a novel algorithm that separately designs update schemes for cooperative remaining agents and newly joining agents. Furthermore, we establish and analyze the sufficient condition for resilient consensus under malicious attacks in open multi-agent systems. Numerical examples are provided to validate the effectiveness of our theoretical findings.

Source: IEEE Control Systems Letters

DOI: 10.1109/lcsys.2025.3580518

Authors: Yuanyi Tang, Yuezu Lv, Jialing Zhou, Maciej Ogorzałek

Institutions: Beijing Institute of Technology, Jagiellonian University

Language: English

Topic: Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Nova Program

Awards: G2575069074, G2636554606, G5920755608, G8837793053, G8979577058