Analysis, detection and control of secure and safe cyber-physical control systems in a unified framework

TL;DR

This paper proposes a unified control-theoretic framework for analyzing, detecting, and mitigating faults and attacks in cyber-physical control systems, leveraging system input-output subspace analysis and coprime factorizations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel unified framework that combines control and detection in cyber-physical systems using system coprime factorizations and subspace analysis.

Findings

The framework effectively detects attacks and faults in cyber-physical systems.

It enables simultaneous control and detection in a unified manner.

The approach enhances resilience against cyber-physical threats.

Abstract

This paper deals with analysis, simultaneous detection of faults and attacks, fault-tolerant control and attack-resilient of cyber-physical control systems. In our recent work, it has been observed that an attack detector driven by an input residual signal is capable of reliably detecting attacks. In particular, observing system dynamics from the perspective of the system input-output signal space reveals that attacks and system uncertainties act on different system subspaces. These results motivate our exploration of secure and safe cyber-physical control systems in the unified framework of control and detection. The unified framework is proposed to handle control and detection issues uniformly and in subspaces of system input-output data. Its mathematical and control-theoretic basis is system coprime factorizations with Bezout identity at its core. We firstly explore those methods and schemes of the unified framework, which serve as the major control-theoretic tool in our work. It is followed by re-visiting and examining established attack detection and resilient control schemes. The major part of our work is the endeavours to develop a control-theoretic paradigm, in which analysis, simultaneous detection of faults and attacks, fault-tolerant and attack-resilient control of cyber-physical control systems are addressed in a unified manner.