Distributed Model-Free Adaptive Control for MIMO Nonlinear Multiagent Systems Under Deception Attacks

The consensus tracking and containment control problems of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) nonaffine nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) are studied in this article under deception attacks using the distributed model-free adaptive control (DMFAC) method. An equivalent dynamic linearized data model of MIMO MASs’s distributed output vector containing deception signals is established using dynamic linearization technology. Then, a fully data-driven DMFAC strategy is designed just using I/O information instead of the knowledge of mathematical model. Furthermore, the boundedness of distributed output vector of MIMO-MASs under deception attacks is proved through the contraction mapping principle without employing global topology graph information. Finally, the validity of the proposed DMFAC scheme is verified through detailed simulations.