On the Stability of Power Transmission Systems Under Persistent Inverter Attacks: A Bi-Linear Matrix Approach

Cybersecurity in power systems; hybrid systems; stability analysis; Cyber security; Cybersecurity in power system; Generator; Inverter; Power; Power systems stability; Power transmission systems; Power-transmission; Stability analyze; Stability criterions; Control and Systems Engineering; Control and Optimization

Abstract :

[en] We investigate the stability and robustness properties of a power transmission system under persistent deceiving attacks on inverter-interfaced energy resources. The attacks can corrupt the damping coefficients in the inverters' controllers and measurements of the frequency at the points of coupling. Leveraging tools from hybrid dynamical systems theory, we characterize a broad family of persistent (and not necessarily periodic) attacks acting on the inverters, under which the stability properties of the transmission system can be shown to not be compromised. To address potentially conservative conditions identified through conventional bounding techniques, sufficient conditions on the average activation time of the attacks are identified via Lyapunov theory, as well as the formulation and solution of a class of bilinear matrix inequalities (BMI). The results are obtained for constant and slowly time-varying loads via input-to-state stability (ISS) tools. Numerical simulations on the IEEE 39-bus test system are also presented.

Disciplines :

Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Colot, Antonin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'électricité, électronique et informatique (Institut Montefiore) > Smart-Microgrids ; University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Boulder, United States

Shenoy, Vishal ; University of California at San Diego, ECE Department, San Diego, United States

Cavraro, Guido ; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Energy System Integration Facility, Golden, United States

Dall'anese, Emiliano ; University of Colorado at Boulder, ECEE Department, Boulder, United States

Poveda, Jorge I. ; University of California at San Diego, ECE Department, San Diego, United States

Language :

English

Title :

On the Stability of Power Transmission Systems Under Persistent Inverter Attacks: A Bi-Linear Matrix Approach

Publication date :

2024

Journal title :

IEEE Control Systems Letters

eISSN :

2475-1456

Publisher :

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Volume :

Pages :

1853 - 1858

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielam/7782633/10411713/10554653-aam.pdf

Funders :

OE - U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity

Funding text :

Funding provided by DOE Office of Electricity, Advanced Grid Modeling Program.
NSF ECCS CAREER

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