Resilient Control for Networked Control Systems Subject to Cyber/Physical Attacks

• Published in: International journal of automation and computing Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 345 - 354
• Main Authors: Rhouma, Taouba, Chabir, Karim, Abdelkrim, Mohamed Naceur
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 01.06.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Automation; CAE) and Design; Closed loops; Communication; Communications networks; Computer Applications; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD; Control; Control systems; Controllers; Cybersecurity; Design; Engineering; Fault detection; Feedback control; Kalman filters; Likelihood ratio; Linear quadratic Gaussian control; Mechatronics; Network control; Nuclear power plants; Random variables; Research Article; Resilience; Robotics; Sensors; Systems stability; anomaly detector; cyber physical attacks; Kalman filtering; Networked control systems (NCSs); resilient control
• ISSN: 1476-8186; 2153-182X; 1751-8520; 2153-1838
• DOI: 10.1007/s11633-017-1059-x

In this paper, we investigate a resilient control strategy for networked control systems (NCSs) subject to zero dynamic attacks which are stealthy false-data injection attacks that are designed so that they cannot be detected based on control input and measurement data. Cyber resilience represents the ability of systems or network architectures to continue providing their intended behavior during attack and recovery. When a cyber attack on the control signal of a networked control system is computed to remain undetectable from passive model-based fault detection and isolation schemes, we show that the consequence of a zero dynamic attack on the state variable of the plant is undetectable during attack but it becomes apparent after the end of the attack. A resilient linear quadratic Gaussian controller, having the ability to quickly recover the nominal behavior of the closed-loop system after the attack end, is designed by updating online the Kalman filter from information given by an active version of the generalized likelihood ratio detector.