Secure Adaptive Event-Triggered Control for Cyber–Physical Power Systems Under Denial-of-Service Attacks

Secure control for cyber–physical power systems (CPPSs) under cyber attacks is a challenging issue. Existing event-triggered control schemes are generally difficult to mitigate the impact of cyber attacks and improve communication efficiency simultaneously. To solve such two problems, this article studies secure adaptive event-triggered control for the CPPSs under energy-limited denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. A new DoS-dependent secure adaptive event-triggered mechanism (SAETM) is developed, where DoS attacks are taken into account when designing the trigger mechanisms. Sufficient conditions are derived to ensure the CPPSs to be uniformly ultimate boundedness stable, and the entering time when the state trajectories of the CPPSs are guaranteed to stay in the secure region is also given. Finally, numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.