Adaptive Resilient Control of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Actuator and Sensor Attacks

Resilient control of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) against actuator and/or sensor attacks has been extensively researched. However, the existing research considers actuator attacks and sensor attacks separately and also designs resilient controllers based on complex nonlinear system models caused by unknown actuator and sensor attacks. This increases the difficulty in the analysis, computation, and control of CPSs under attacks. To address this issue, this article introduces an idea to deal with both actuator attacks and sensor attacks together with feedback linearization control. This simplifies the mathematical modeling of attacked CPSs, thus reducing the difficulty of resilient controller design. Then, from the simplified modeling, a composite controller is designed to enhance system resilience. It ensures the dynamic and steady-state performance of CPSs under attacks. Simulation studies are undertaken to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.