Organization Name: University of Science and Technology Beijing

Project introduction:

UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) swarmsare typical cyber-physical systems. How to ensure the stable,  reliable and safe operation of UAV swarms has important theoretical significance and application value. This project conducts research on the key technologies of anti-disturbance and resilient fault-tolerant control systemsfor UAVswarms under cyber-physical cross-domain attacks, encompassing: (a) Characterization and modeling of four keyabnormal behaviors(multi-source heterogeneous disturbances, network attacks, communication constraints and control systemcomponent faults), to establish the mechanism and model of UAV swarms; (b) Combining disturbance compensator with observer technology, to constructmechanisms for the  evaluation and compensation of the effect ofdisturbances for precision anti-disturbance control; (c) Effective intrusion detection based on adaptive  threshold,to build more effective active security defense mechanism that integrates detection, estimation and compensation/ absorption of network attacks; (d) Constructing resilient and fault-tolerant control strategies by combining the time-elongation Nussbaum function method with memory event-triggered mechanism to solve the high frequency time-varying unknown fault direction problem caused by cyber-physical cross-domain attacks, and simultaneously avoid the peaking and chattering phenomenaof amplitude-elongation Nussbaum func-tion methods; (e) With the above-mentioned theoretical studies, the application and experimental verification studies for UAV swarms will be carried out. This project arises from practical engineering needs and considerations, and focuses on the difficult problem of cyber-physical security, safety and control against coupled cyber-attacks and physical component faults and constraints. The objective of the project is to improve the safety and reliability of UAV swarms, which is of greattheoretical and practical significance. The participation of the foreign experts from BRCIS countries will provide important guarantee for the smooth implementation of the project.