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Title Performance and Vulnerability of Distributed Secondary Control of AC Microgrids under Cyber-Attack
Type Presentation
Keywords AC microgrids , cyber-attack , frequency control , distributed secondary control
Abstract Today, with development of technologies and communication networks, cyber security is one of the challenges in widespread use of cyber-physical systems. Secondary control in microgrids is known as one of the potential targets of cyber-attacks, and these threats should be considered in the design of the controller. In this paper, the vulnerability of distributed secondary control against cyber-attacks has been proposed. This paper studies the performance and vulnerability of various distributed secondary control methods in AC microgrids under cyber-attacks. The purpose of this work is to identify the point of failure of each method against cyber threats in AC microgrids. In order to do this comparison study, three well-known attacks including false data injection, controller hijacking, and denial of service are evaluated for three secondary control methods so called distributed consensus, average distributed control, and distributed finite-time control. Simulation results are performed in MATLAB software to provide the comparison results.
Researchers Qobad Shafiee (Fourth Researcher), Abdulbaset Karimi (Third Researcher), Abas Ahmadi (Second Researcher), Zahra Shahbazi (First Researcher)