Distributed Resilient Tracking Control of a Vehicle Platoon Under Communication Imperfection

Abstract

This paper presents a distributed resilient control approach for a vehicle platooning system wherein the utilized communication network is subject to a type of cyber attack called denial-of-service. The proposed approach is designed using the recently developed event-triggered control design formalism whereby control signals are updated aperiodically and only when some measures/novelties regarding the performance or internal dynamics of the system occur. Using Lyapunov’s stability analysis method, it is shown that the proposed control strategy is capable of mitigating denial-of-service attacks when their frequency of occurrences satifies certain regularity criteria.