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In this paper, we investigate tracking control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and state quantization. Dynamic quantized mechanisms are designed for inter-follower communication and leader-follower communication. Zooming-in and out factors, and data rates of both mechanisms for preventing quantizer saturation are provided. Our results show that by tuning the inter-follower quantized controller, one cannot improve the resilience beyond a level determined by the data rate of leader-follower quantized communication, i.e., the ceiling effect. Otherwise, overflow of followers' state quantizer can occur. On the other hand, if one selects a "large" data rate for leader-follower quantized communication, then the inter-follower quantized communication determines the resilience, and further increasing the data rate for leader-follower quantized communication cannot improve the resilience, i.e., the bottleneck effect. Simulation examples are provided to justify the results of our paper.

In this paper, we consider a distributed online convex optimization problem over a time-varying multi-agent network. The goal of this network is to minimize a global loss function through local computation and communication with neighbors. To effectively handle the optimization problem with a high-dimensional and structural constraint set, we develop a distributed online multiple Frank-Wolfe algorithm to avoid the expensive computational cost of projection operation. The dynamic regret bounds are established as $\mathcal{O}(T^{1-\gamma}+H_T)$ with the linear oracle number $\mathcal{O} (T^{1+\gamma})$, which depends on the horizon (total iteration number) $T$, the function variation $H_T$, and the tuning parameter $0<\gamma<1$. In particular, when the prior knowledge of $H_T$ and $T$ is available, the bound can be enhanced to $\mathcal{O} (1+H_T)$. Moreover, we illustrate the significant advantages of the multiple iteration technique and reveal a trade-off between dynamic regret bound, computational cost, and communication cost. Finally, the performance of our algorithm is verified and compared through the distributed online ridge regression problems with two constraint sets.

This paper considers online distributed convex constrained optimization over a time-varying multi-agent network. Agents in this network cooperate to minimize the global objective function through information exchange with their neighbors and local computation. Since the capacity or bandwidth of communication channels often is limited, a random quantizer is introduced to reduce the transmission bits. Through incorporating this quantizer, we develop a quantized distributed online projection-free optimization algorithm, which can achieve the saving of communication resources and computational costs. For different parameter settings of the quantizer, we establish the corresponding dynamic regret upper bounds of the proposed algorithm and reveal the trade-off between the convergence performance and the quantization effect. Finally, the theoretical results are illustrated by the simulation of distributed online linear regression problem.

This paper considers distributed online convex constrained optimization, in which various agents in a multi-agent system cooperate to minimize a global cost function through communicating with neighbors over a time-varying network. When the constraint set of optimization problem is high-dimensional and complicated, the computational cost of the projection operation often becomes prohibitive. To handle this problem, we develop a distributed online Frank-Wolfe optimization algorithm combining with gradient tracking technique. We rigorously establish the dynamic regret bound of the proposed optimization algorithm as $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{T(1+H_T)}+D_T)$, which explicitly depends on the iteration round $T$, function variation $H_T$, and gradient variation $D_T$. Finally, the theoretical results are verified and compared in the case of distributed online ridge regression problems.

The distributed convex optimization problem over the multi-agent system is considered in this paper, and it is assumed that each agent possesses its own cost function and communicates with its neighbours over a sequence of time-varying directed graphs. However, due to some reasons there exist communication delays while agents receive information from other agents, and we are going to seek the optimal value of the sum of agents' loss functions in this case. We desire to handle this problem with the push-sum distributed dual averaging (PS-DDA) algorithm. It is proved that this algorithm converges and the error decays at a rate $\mathcal{O}\left(T^{-0.5}\right)$ with proper step size, where $T$ is iteration span. The main result presented in this paper also illustrates the convergence of the proposed algorithm is related to the maximum value of the communication delay on one edge. We finally apply the theoretical results to numerical simulations to show the PS-DDA algorithm's performance.

This paper proposes a line integral Lyapunov function approach to stability analysis and stabilization for It\^o stochastic T-S models. Unlike the deterministic case, stability analysis of this model needs the information of Hessian matrix of the line integral Lyapunov function which is related to partial derivatives of the basis functions. By introducing a new method to handle these partial derivatives and using the property of state-dependent matrix with rank one, the stability conditions of the underlying system can be established via a line integral Lyapunov function. These conditions obtained are more general than the ones which are based on quadratic Lyapunov functions. Based on the stability conditions, a controller is developed by cone complementarity linerization algorithm. A non-quadratic Lyapunov function approach is thus proposed for the stabilization problem of the It\^o stochastic T-S models. It has been shown that the problem can be solved by optimizing sum of traces for a group of products of matrix variables with linear constraints. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.