Digital Twin-Based Cyber-Attack Detection and Mitigation for DC Microgrids
2025 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, ISSN 1949-3053, E-ISSN 1949-3061, Vol. 16, no 2, p. 876-889Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
DC microgrids (MGs) are cyber-physical systems (CPSs) prone to cyber attacks which could disrupt the normal operation of DC MGs. Accurate estimation of the attack vector is crucial to recover correct signals from compromised measurements for safe DC MG operation, while it has not been effectively achieved by existing methods and the accuracy is challenged by unmodeled uncertainties in practical power electronic converters. This paper proposes a digital twin (DT)-based cyber attack detection and mitigation scheme for DC MGs. First, the lightweight radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is adopted to compensate for the mismatch between the ideal model and the real system for accurate converter modeling. Second, a composite descriptor observer-based local DT is designed to achieve accurate estimations of attack signals and correct observations of converter states. In addition, a global DT is developed at the system level to accurately estimate and eliminate cyber attacks in the secondary control. As a result, the proposed method can mitigate attacks by replacing the corrupted signals with estimated true values provided by DT, leading to accurate and stable operation of the system. Finally, simulation and experimental results are given to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025. Vol. 16, no 2, p. 876-889
Keywords [en]
Prevention and mitigation, Cyberattack, Accuracy, Estimation, Voltage control, Mathematical models, Actuators, Uncertainty, Observers, Voltage measurement, DC microgrids, false data injection attack, digital twin, attack detection, attack mitigation
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-361347DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2024.3487049ISI: 001428067700034Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85208403053OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-361347DiVA, id: diva2:1944928
Note
QC 20250317
2025-03-172025-03-172025-03-17Bibliographically approved