English
Related papers

Related papers: Data-Driven Graph Switching for Cyber-Resilient Co…

200 papers

Distributed consensus-based controllers for optimal secondary frequency regulation of microgrids and power systems have received substantial attention in recent years. This paper provides a Lyapunov-based proof that, under a time-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 John W. Simpson-Porco

As the scale of networked control systems increases and interactions between different subsystems become more sophisticated, questions of the resilience of such networks increase in importance. The need to redefine classical system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Mohammad Pirani , Aritra Mitra , Shreyas Sundaram

Traditional protection systems for microgrids, which rely on high fault currents and continuous communication, struggle to keep up with the changing dynamics and cybersecurity concerns of decentralized networks. In this study, we introduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Saurabh Prabhakar , Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi , Frede Blaabjerg , Subham Sahoo

As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, reinforcement learning (RL) is emerging as a promising technique to create intelligent and adaptive cyber defense systems. However, most existing autonomous defensive agents have overlooked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ilya Orson Sandoval , Isaac Symes Thompson , Vasilios Mavroudis , Chris Hicks

We consider the problem of designing learning-based reactive power controllers that perform voltage regulation in distribution grids while ensuring closed-loop system stability. In contrast to existing methods, where the provably stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Zhenyi Yuan , Jie Feng , Yuanyuan Shi , Jorge Cortés

This letter proposes a novel, fully distributed, transient-safe resilient secondary control strategies for AC microgrids, addressing unbounded false data injection (FDI) attacks on control input channels. Unlike existing methods that focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Nesa Shams , Yichao Wang , Shan Zuo

The increasing integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) and communication networks has brought both modernization and new vulnerabilities to the power system infrastructure. These vulnerabilities expose the system to internal faults…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Swetha Rani Kasimalla , Kuchan Park , Junho Hong , Young-Jin Kim , HyoJong Lee

A coordinated cyber-attack on grid meter readings and breaker statuses can lead to incorrect state estimation that can subsequently destabilize the grid. This paper studies cyber-attacks by an adversary that changes breaker statuses on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Georgios Anyfantis , Pere Barlet-Ros

The cybersecurity of microgrid has received widespread attentions due to the frequently reported attack accidents against distributed energy resource (DER) manufactures. Numerous impact mitigation schemes have been proposed to reduce or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Mengxiang Liu , Xin Zhang , Rui Zhang , Zhuoran Zhou , Zhenyong Zhang , Ruilong Deng

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

Distributed averaging-based integral (DAI) controllers are becoming increasingly popular in power system applications. The literature has thus far primarily focused on disturbance rejection, steady-state optimality and adaption to complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Johannes Schiffer , Florian Dörfler , Emilia Fridman

Many nations are promoting the green transition in the energy sector to attain neutral carbon emissions by 2050. Smart Grid 2.0 (SG2) is expected to explore data-driven analytics and enhance communication technologies to improve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Lan-Huong Nguyen , Van-Linh Nguyen , Ren-Hung Hwang , Jian-Jhih Kuo , Yu-Wen Chen , Chien-Chung Huang , Ping-I Pan

Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is drawing significant concerns as data communication increasingly leverages wireless networks. A lot of data-driven methods were developed for detecting cyberattacks, but few are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Dan Li , Paritosh Ramanan , Nagi Gebraeel , Kamran Paynabar

The necessary integration of renewable energy sources, combined with the expanding scale of power networks, presents significant challenges in controlling modern power grids. Traditional control systems, which are human and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Carlo Fabrizio , Gianvito Losapio , Marco Mussi , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

Smart grids are critical cyber-physical systems that are vital to our energy future. Smart grids' fault resilience is dependent on the use of advanced protection systems that can reliably adapt to changing conditions within the grid. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Amr S. Mohamed , Deepa Kundur , Mohsen Khalaf

The smart grid represents a pivotal innovation in modernizing the electricity sector, offering an intelligent, digitalized energy network capable of optimizing energy delivery from source to consumer. It hence represents the backbone of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Emad Efatinasab , Alessandro Brighente , Mirco Rampazzo , Nahal Azadi , Mauro Conti

With the growing share of renewable energy sources, the uncertainty in power supply is increasing. In addition to the inherent fluctuations in the renewables, this is due to the threat of deliberate malicious attacks, which may become more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Sarah Braun , Sebastian Albrecht , Sergio Lucia

Networked microgrids with high penetration of distributed generators have ubiquitous remote information exchange, which may be exposed to various cyber security threats. This paper, for the first time, addresses a consensus problem in terms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Pudong Ge , Boli Chen , Fei Teng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph learning tasks. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to both test-time evasion and training-time poisoning attacks that perturb the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Binghui Wang , Meng Pang , Yun Dong