Induced attack on synchronization trajectory against a wide-area network with hybrid event-triggered communication

This article addresses the attacker’s perspective on an induced attack strategy against wide-area networks of clustered multi-agent systems. In contrast to most existing attacks, our suggested approach may force the wide-area network to follow a specified coordination trajectory. A hybrid ecosystem is first introduced for the induced attack model, which allows us to generate a particular synchronization trajectory. Next, an induced attack protocol is proposed that utilizes the induced attack model among partial agents and a dynamic event-triggered technique. It shows that the induced attack protocol is fully distributed, with each agent using only local information and that of its neighbors. An explicit expression is derived for the specified synchronization trajectory, which characterizes the movement trajectory of the wide-area network of clustered multi-agent systems under the induced attack. The resilient H∞ approach is used to provide design criteria for the induced attack generation ecosystem. Finally, simulation examples are provided to illustrate the practical implementation of the proposed methodology.