Stealthy integrity attacks for a class of nonlinear cyber-physical systems
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Author(s)
Zhang, Kangkang
Keliris, Christodoulos
Parisini, Thomas
Polycarpou, Marios M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper proposes a stealthy integrity attack generation methodology for a class of nonlinear cyber-physical systems. Geometric control theory and stability theory of incremental systems are used to design an attack generation scheme with stealthiness properties. An attack model is proposed as a closed-loop dynamical system with an arbitrary input signal. This model is developed based on a controlled invariant subspace that results from geometric control theory and is decoupled with the system outputs and the nonlinear function. The presence of the arbitrary signal in the attack model provides an additional degree of freedom and constitutes a novel component compared with existing results. The stealthiness property of the attack model is rigorously investigated based on the incremental stability of the closed-loop control system, and the incremental input-to-state stability of the anomaly detector. As a result, a sufficient condition in terms of the initial condition of the attack model is derived to guarantee stealthiness. Finally, a case study is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the developed attack generation scheme.
Date Issued
2022-12-01
Date Acceptance
2021-11-19
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022, 67 (12), pp.6723-6730
ISSN
0018-9286
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
6723
End Page
6730
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume
67
Issue
12
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Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-11-30