Data-driven Cyberattack Detection for Photovoltaic (PV) Systems through Analyzing Micro-PMU Data

• Published in: IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Vol. 2020; pp. 431 - 436
• Main Authors: Li, Qi, Li, Fangyu, Zhang, Jinan, Ye, Jin, Song, Wenzhan, Mantooth, Alan
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 11.10.2020
• Subjects: Cyber physical security; Cyberattack; Data models; Data-driven models; Feature extraction; Inverters; Mathematical model; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Phasor measurement units; PV systems; SOLAR ENERGY; Support vector machines
• ISSN: 2329-3721; 2329-3748
• DOI: 10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236274

With increasing exposure to software-based sensing and control, Photovoltaic (PV) systems are facing higher risks of cyber attacks. To ensure the system stability and minimize potential economic losses, it is imperative to monitor operating states and detect attacks at the early stage. To meet this demand, Micro-Phasor Measurement Units (µPMU) are increasingly popular in monitoring distribution networks. However, due to the relatively low sampling rate, µPMU has not yet been used to detect and classify cyber-attacks in power electronics enabled smart grid. To our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts to use µPMU to detect cyber attacks that degrade the performance of power electronics systems. We propose to apply data-driven methods on micro-PMU data to implement attack detection. We have evaluated data-driven methods, including decision tree (DT), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), artificial neural network (ANN), long short-term memory (LSTM) and convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed CNN model achieves the required performances with the highest 99.23% accuracy and 0.9963 F 1 score.