Visible to the public Reinforcement Learning Based Vulnerability Analysis of Data Injection Attack for Smart Grids

TitleReinforcement Learning Based Vulnerability Analysis of Data Injection Attack for Smart Grids
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsLuo, Weifeng, Xiao, Liang
Conference Name2021 40th Chinese Control Conference (CCC)
KeywordsBenchmark testing, data injection attacks, Estimation, measurement uncertainty, Meters, Metrics, power grid vulnerability analysis, Power measurement, pubcrawl, reinforcement learning, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, simulation, Smart grid, vulnerability analysis
AbstractSmart grids have to protect meter measurements against false data injection attacks. By modifying the meter measurements, the attacker misleads the control decisions of the control center, which results in physical damages of power systems. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning based vulnerability analysis scheme for data injection attack without relying on the power system topology. This scheme enables the attacker to choose the data injection attack vector based on the meter measurements, the power system status, the previous injected errors and the number of meters to compromise. By combining deep reinforcement learning with prioritized experience replay, the proposed scheme more frequently replays the successful vulnerability detection experiences while bypassing the bad data detection, which is able to accelerate the learning speed. Simulation results based on the IEEE 14 bus system show that this scheme increases the probability of successful vulnerability detection and reduce the number of meters to compromise compared with the benchmark scheme.
DOI10.23919/CCC52363.2021.9550523
Citation Keyluo_reinforcement_2021