Multi-stage collaborative resilient enhancement strategy for coupling faults in distribution cyber physical systems

Abstract

Due to the strong interdependence of cyber systems and physical systems, cyber-physical systems (CPS) often face serious coupling faults in case of extreme natural disasters. To improve the ability of the distribution CPS to withstand extreme events and rapidly resume normal operation, it is critical to consider effective recovery processes and formulate the collaborative resilience enhancement strategy of CPS. In this paper, a sequential multi-stage collaborative recovery strategy from CPS faults caused by natural disasters is proposed, considering the interdependence of the cyber system and physical system at the layers of facilities, topologies and functions, and the coupling relationship of power grid integration in the recovery process. In the implementation of this strategy, on the cyber side, based on the demand of power grid integration recovery, the communication optical fiber aims to be repaired as quickly as possible to control the power grid Remote Controlled Switches (RCS). On the physical side, the power grid is restored with the objective to reduce loss of load, considering the whole process of degradation, response and recovery during fault handling in coordination. Resilience metrics based on the proposed method are introduced to evaluate the resilience level, as the absorption rate, adaptation rate and energy supply rate. IEEE-33 system is used as an example to show that compared with the traditional recovery strategy that considers only the power grid, the proposed strategy can significantly improve the system's ability to face disasters at the early stage, maintain power supply after the disaster, and speed up the overall load recovery.