How to Secure Distributed Filters Under Sensor Attacks
2022 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISSN 0018-9286, E-ISSN 1558-2523, Vol. 67, no 6, p. 2843-2856Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We study how to secure distributed filters for linear time-invariant systems with bounded noise under false-data injection attacks. A malicious attacker is able to arbitrarily manipulate the observations for a time-varying and unknown subset of the sensors. We first propose a recursive distributed filter consisting of two steps at each update. The first step employs a saturation-like scheme, which gives a small gain if the innovation is large corresponding to a potential attack. The second step is a consensus operation of state estimates among neighboring sensors. We prove the estimation error is upper bounded if the parameters satisfy a condition. We further analyze the feasibility of the condition and connect it to sparse observability in the centralized case. When the attacked sensor set is known to be time-invariant, the secured filter is modified by adding an online local attack detector. The detector is able to identify the attacked sensors whose observation innovations are larger than the detection thresholds. Also, with more attacked sensors being detected, the thresholds will adaptively adjust to reduce the space of the stealthy attack signals.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 67, no 6, p. 2843-2856
Keywords [en]
Detectors, Estimation error, Observability, Observers, Robustness, Technological innovation, Upper bound, Invariance, Linear systems, Detection threshold, Distributed filters, Estimation errors, False data injection attacks, Linear time invariant systems, Potential attack, State estimates, Time invariants, Time varying control systems
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-311174DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3092603ISI: 000803343800015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85113224396OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-311174DiVA, id: diva2:1658882
Note
QC 20250328
2022-05-182022-05-182025-03-28Bibliographically approved