Distributed Security Monitoring and Resilient Cooperative Control

This book systematically addresses the security and resilience of networked agent systems, from sensor networks to general multi-agent systems, against evolving cyber threats.

Distributed Security Monitoring and Resilient Cooperative Control explores techniques for distributed security monitoring to detect sparse attacks on sensors (location-fixed/varying and sparse-fixed/varying), Byzantine node/link attacks, and vulnerability-related attacks in heterogeneous sensor networks. It provides advanced solutions for finite/fixed-time monitoring convergence under nonlinear dynamics. Regarding resilient cooperative control of multi-agent systems, the book tackles the challenge of isolation against various attacks, such as false data injection and covert, non-collusive, and collusive attacks. Practical applications range from resilient smart grids and attack-resistant drones to self-healing infrastructures. Rigorous mathematical frameworks, including graph theory and matrix analysis, establish a principled link between theoretical guarantees and the security operations of real-world networked agent systems. These frameworks offer tools to fortify critical networks against unpredictable, unstructured attacks.

This book will appeal to scholars, engineers, and practitioners involved in systems engineering, control theory, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.

Guanghui Wen (Senior Member, IEEE) is Endowed Chair Professor at the School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prof. Wen was the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. His current research interests include autonomous intelligent systems, complex networked systems, distributed control and optimization, resilient control, and distributed reinforcement learning.

Yuezu Lv (Senior member, IEEE) is currently the Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of CNS/ATM, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Dr. Lv served as a Program Committee Member for the 2019 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Applications to Intelligent Manufacturing. He was a finalist for Zhang Si-Ying Outstanding Youth Paper Award in 2015. His research interests include cooperative control of multiagent systems and adaptive control.

Dan Zhao (Member, IEEE) is currently the Assistant Researcher at the School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Dr. Zhao was selected for the ninth 2023 Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship by China Association for Science and Technology. Her research interests include multi-agent systems, attack detection and isolation, and distributed resilient control.

Xuqiang Lei (Member, IEEE) is currently the Assistant Researcher at the School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Dr. Lei was the recipient of the seventh 2023 Chinese Conference on swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control (CCSICC) Best Student Paper Award and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Annual Conference 2023 Student Travel Grant Award. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, distributed secure state monitoring, and resilient consensus control.