학술논문

Improving AC Microgrid Stability Under Cyberattacks Through Timescale Separation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on. 70(6):2191-2195 Jun, 2023
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Inverters
Voltage control
Steady-state
Bandwidth
Resilience
Oscillators
Microgrids
AC microgrid
cyberattacks
distributed control
small-signal stability
Language
ISSN
1549-7747
1558-3791
Abstract
The reliance on communication in the secondary control of converter-based microgrids leaves them vulnerable to multiplicative false data injection attacks (FDIAs) that maliciously amplify communicated signals, disrupting the synchrony of the sources. In this brief, we identify the root cause of susceptibility to be the violation of timescale separation between the primary and secondary control layers. We leverage this finding to directly improve the system resilience to such attacks without the need to detect and nullify the attack vector, eliminating the need for additional sensors and communicated signals solely for resilience. Specifically, a fixed-design lag compensator added to the voltage consensus controller to enforce timescale separation is shown to increase the instability threshold for the tampered signals by over 300 times, using a representative case study.