Detection‐based weighted LFC for multi‐area power systems under DoS attacks

Abstract

This study is concerned with resilient load frequency control (LFC) scheme design of multi-area power systems with communication delay and aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. First, to identify DoS attacks, a detection mechanism in the actuator side is proposed which is a time counter measuring the input delay. The identified DoS attacks are constrained by its upper bound of frequency and duration. When DoS attacks are identified, actuator switches to zero-input strategy from hold-input strategy. According to the switching control inputs, switched time delay system model is established to describe the attack influence on LFC system. Further, a criterion of preserving weighted performance is derived by combining piecewise Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional method with switched system method. Based on the criterion, the resilient control gain is designed by solving a set of LMIs. Finally, numerical simulations are given to verify the validness of the attack detection based resilient LFC scheme.