Future Research Directions

We have addressed several secure coordination control design issues for networked robotic systems under synchronous and asynchronous, known and unknown DoS attacks and adversarial node attacks from two distinct perspectives: time-triggered control and event-triggered control. Secure coordination control design for networked robotic systems plays a crucial role in ensuring the resilience, efficiency, and robustness of these systems. It not only fosters collaboration among robots but also addresses security concerns, making it a key enabler for applications in diverse domains, from industrial automation (Bou-Harb et al (2017) IEEE Commun Mag 55(5):198–204; Olowononi et al (2021) IEEE Commun Surv Tutor 23(1):524–552) to autonomous intelligent transportation (Ganin et al (2019) Transp Res Part C Emerg Technol 100:318–329). In this chapter, we present several research directions that depict future investigation on networked robotic systems including even-based secure coordination of networked robotic systems under multisource cyber attacks, secure coordination of underwater distributed cyber-physical systems, and distributed source-seeking control of networked robotic systems with unreliable communication.