Event-triggering-based H∞ load frequency control for multi-area cyber–physical power system under DoS attacks

In this work, the event-triggering-based resilient H∞ load frequency control (LFC) scheme under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks is developed for multi-area cyber–physical power system (MA-CPPS) with electric vehicles (EVs). In MA-CPPS, the sampled measurements are transmitted through the communication network, which may be subjected to the energy-limited DoS attack with a resilient index of maximum allowable continuous data losses. Meanwhile, a novel adaptive event-triggering mechanism (AETM) characterized by parameters disturbances and dynamic adjustment mechanism of triggering threshold can effectively reduce the occupation of network bandwidth and computational burden in practical operation of sampled-data LFC in MA-CPPS. Hence a sampled-data LFC model of considering energy-limited DoS attack and AETM is established firstly. Then based on a novel AETM transmission interval-dependent loop functional approach, a resilient H∞ state-feedback controller is designed with guaranteed H∞ performance and resilient index of energy-limited DoS attack. Finally, the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed scheme are verified by one-area and three-areas LFC CPPS.