Visible to the public Privacy-Preserving Stealthy Attack Detection in Multi-Agent Control Systems

TitlePrivacy-Preserving Stealthy Attack Detection in Multi-Agent Control Systems
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsBahrami, Mohammad, Jafarnejadsani, Hamidreza
Conference Name2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Date Publisheddec
KeywordsConferences, control systems, control theory, Human Behavior, numerical simulation, Observers, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, Switches
AbstractThis paper develops a glocal (global-local) attack detection framework to detect stealthy cyber-physical attacks, namely covert attack and zero-dynamics attack, against a class of multi-agent control systems seeking average consensus. The detection structure consists of a global (central) observer and local observers for the multi-agent system partitioned into clusters. The proposed structure addresses the scalability of the approach and the privacy preservation of the multi-agent system's state information. The former is addressed by using decentralized local observers, and the latter is achieved by imposing unobservability conditions at the global level. Also, the communication graph model is subject to topology switching, triggered by local observers, allowing for the detection of stealthy attacks by the global observer. Theoretical conditions are derived for detectability of the stealthy attacks using the proposed detection framework. Finally, a numerical simulation is provided to validate the theoretical findings.
DOI10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683427
Citation Keybahrami_privacy-preserving_2021