Detecting and isolating false data injection attacks on electric vehicles of smart grids using distributed functional observers

Abstract

Abstract This paper considers the problem of false data injection attacks (FDIAs) on load frequency control of interconnected smart grids (ISGs) with delayed electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energies. By intruding incorrect information, unauthorised users can corrupt the system information leading to degradation in the performance and disruptions of ISGs. In this paper, a model of ISGs subject to FDIAs in aggregator of EVs and power plants is first presented. This mathematical representation comprises dynamic interactions of power plants, delayed EVs, renewable energies and FDIAs on both system states and outputs. Based on recent advanced techniques on functional observers and matrix inequalities for time‐delay systems, then a new distributed functional observers based scheme is developed to realise the tasks of detecting and isolating FDIAs. Also, an effective procedure presented in tractable linear matrix inequalitiesis build with an optimisation process for the synthesis of the detector. The proposed detector is distributed, of reduced order, avoids the risk of centralised malicious incidents, therefore easy for implementation and monitoring tasks. The stability of ISGs and contribution of EVs subject to FDIAs are also discussed. Comprehensive simulations are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method by using three‐area ISGs.

Keywords

• Algebra
• Optimisation techniques
• Frequency control
• Control of electric power systems
• Optimisation techniques
• Algebra