Hybrid Design of Multiplicative Watermarking for Defense Against Malicious Parameter Identification

Multiplicative watermarking (MWM) is an active diagnosis technique for the detection of highly sophisticated attacks, but is vulnerable to malicious agents that use eaves-dropped data to identify and then remove or replicate the watermark. In this work, we propose a scheme to protect the parameters of MWM, by proposing a design strategy based...

Cryptographic switching functions for multiplicative watermarking in cyber-physical systems

In this paper we present a novel switching function for multiplicative watermarking systems. The switching function is based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. The resulting function allows for both watermarking generator and remover to define appropriate system parameters, sharing only limited information,...

An Economic Model Predictive Control Approach for Load Mitigation on Multiple Tower Locations of Wind Turbines

The current trend in the evolution of wind turbines is to increase their rotor size in order to capture more power. This leads to taller, slender and more flexible towers, which thus experience higher dynamical loads due to the turbine rotation and environmental factors. It is hence compelling to deploy advanced control methods that can...

Hierarchical Cyber-Attack Detection in Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

In this paper we present a hierarchical scheme to detect cyber-attacks in a hierarchical control architecture for large-scale interconnected systems (LSS). We consider the LSS as a network of physically coupled subsystems, equipped with a two-layer controller: on the local level, decentralized controllers guarantee overall stability and...

Design of multiplicative watermarking against covert attacks

This paper addresses the design of an active cyberattack detection architecture based on multiplicative watermarking, allowing for detection of covert attacks. We propose an optimal design problem, relying on the so-called output-to-output ℓ 2 -gain, which characterizes the maximum gain between the residual output of a detection scheme and some...