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Cyber Security for Voltage Control of Distribution Systems Under Data Falsification Attacks

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Design and Analysis of Distributed Energy Management Systems

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In this chapter, we discuss cyber security issues that can arise in the voltage regulation of distribution systems. As the amount of distributed generation rapidly increases, voltage regulation along the distribution lines becomes more complicated. This change in the system has prompted the use of more voltage measurements collected over networks for accurate monitoring and control. Here, we provide an overview of our recent research on false data injection attacks on voltage measurements transmitted by sensors to a centralized controller. Our approach is to first introduce an attack detection algorithm and then enhance the security level by a resilient controller that is capable of performing the regulation in the presence of attacks by utilizing the detection results. We illustrate our methods by simulation studies on a realistic, small-scale distribution system.

This work was supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency under the CREST Program, Grant No. JPMJCR15K3 and JPMJCR15K5. Some of the material have appeared in the papers [13] and [24] and are reused with the permissions of the IEEE and the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), respectively.

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The authors are grateful to Yusuke Aoki, Yasunori Isozaki, Mizuki Onogawa, and Atsushi Suzuki for their help in the course of this research.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

    Hideaki Ishii & Isao Ono

  2. Advanced Collaborative Research Organization for Smart Society (ACROSS), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shinya Yoshizawa & Yu Fujimoto

  3. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

    Takashi Onoda

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuhiro Hayashi

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Ishii, H., Yoshizawa, S., Fujimoto, Y., Ono, I., Onoda, T., Hayashi, Y. (2020). Cyber Security for Voltage Control of Distribution Systems Under Data Falsification Attacks. In: Suzuki, T., Inagaki, S., Susuki, Y., Tran, A. (eds) Design and Analysis of Distributed Energy Management Systems. Power Electronics and Power Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33672-1_8

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