A survey on attack detection, estimation and control of industrial cyber-physical systems

Dan Zhang; Qing-Guo Wang; Gang Feng; Yang Shi; Athanasios V Vasilakos

doi:10.1016/j.isatra.2021.01.036

A survey on attack detection, estimation and control of industrial cyber-physical systems

ISA Trans. 2021 Oct:116:1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2021.01.036. Epub 2021 Jan 28.

Authors

Dan Zhang¹, Qing-Guo Wang², Gang Feng³, Yang Shi⁴, Athanasios V Vasilakos⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Automation, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China; Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes (East China University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200237, China. Electronic address: danzhang@zjut.edu.cn.
² Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, 519087, China; BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, 519087, China.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada.
⁵ University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; Department of Computer Science, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.

PMID: 33581894
DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2021.01.036

Abstract

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are complex systems that involve technologies such as control, communication, and computing. Nowadays, CPSs have a wide range of applications in smart cities, smart grids, smart manufacturing and intelligent transportation. However, with integration of industrial control systems with modern communication technologies, CPSs would be inevitably exposed to increasing security threats, which could lead to severe degradation of the system performance and even destruction of CPSs. This paper presents a survey on recent advances on security issues of industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs). We specifically discuss two typical kinds of attacks, i.e., Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack and Deception attack, and present recent results in terms of attack detection, estimation, and control of ICPSs. Classifications of current studies are analyzed and summarized based on different system modeling and analysis methods. In addition, advantages and disadvantage of various methodologies are also discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with some potential future research directions on secure ICPSs.

Keywords: Attack detection; Cyber–physical systems; Deception attack; DoS attack; Secure control; Secure estimation; Security.