Control Design of Multiagent Discrete-Time Systems

This book describes an effective approach to the cooperative and coordinated control of multivehicle systems. This rigorous analytic approach guarantees the stability of coordinated and cooperating vehicles using distributed protocols and uses low-energy, event-triggered mechanisms for networked vehicle control. The text covers:

design of a cooperative protocol to achieve consensus for multivehicle systems, allowing cooperation that is resistant to the effects of packet loss and/or adversarial attack;

analysis and synthesis of an event-triggering mechanism for cooperative multivehicle systems over uncertain networks; and

the problem of distributed leader-following consensus and methods for compelling multivehicle systems to reach consensus.

Throughout the book, cooperation problems are transformed into stability problems. Lyapunov theory is used to guarantee cooperation among agents. The distributed approach is applied to triggering mechanisms, the cooperation process, and the impact of cyber-attacks. Discrete-time analysis shows how the event-based structure can be designed to match the performance of continuous-time counterparts. The book details applications and computer simulation with several practical examples.

This book is of interest to a wide audience from the graduate student, through the academic researcher to the industrial practitioner, all of them sharing a common interest in the stability and security of multiagent systems.

Introduction.- Output-Synchronization Methodology.- Secure Scaled Consensus.- Robust Scaled Consensus.- Distributed Event-Triggered Consensus Protocols.- Distributed Secure Formation.- Quantized Scaled-Consensus Protocols.- Cooperative Event-Triggered Dissipative Approach.- Event Triggered Leader–Follower Consensus Protocols.- Mathematical Tools.

Magdi S. Mahmoud is a Distinguished Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK (Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of fifty-one (51) books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 610 peer-reviewed papers. He is a fellow of the IEE, a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered consultant engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt). He received several national, regional and international prizes in recognition of his outstanding research and served on the Editorial Board of several International Journals. He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networked control systems, fault-tolerant systems, cyberphysical systems and information technology.
Bilal J. Karaki was born in Hebron in the Palestinian territories, in 1990. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in systems and control engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), KSA, Dhahran, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. He has several publications in international journals. His current research interests include multiagent systems, hybrid systems, and time-delay systems.