Project description DEENESFRITPL Microgrids cyberthreats investigation The cyber resilience of the microgrid (MG) systems represents a rising concern in EU countries. The EU-funded CRMG project will investigate the cyberthreat to electricity grids from a system and control perspective. The project will study the MGs with distributed secondary control challenged by communication latency and denial-of-service attacks to provide comprehensive analysis and countermeasures for this cyberattack scenario. CRMG will develop and analyse the system model and deliver a model-based resilient framework to reduce the influence of cyberattacks. The project will also propose a data driven cyber resilient control based on deep reinforcement learning for optimal online control of MGs under unknown attack scenarios and conduct the controller hardware-in-the-loop experiment for validation. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The data manipulation and disruption in the energy service and control process will damage the stable and secure operation of the microgrid (MG) systems. This proposal, cyber resilience of MGs (CRMG), investigates this problem from the system and control perspective. In particular, the MGs with distributed secondary control challenged by communication latency and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks will be studied. The objective is to provide holistic analysis and countermeasures for MGs under this cyber-attack scenario. The system model will be developed and analysed, while a model-based resilient framework to mitigate the influence of cyber-attacks will be provided. Besides, a data-driven cyber-resilient control based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) will be proposed to provide online optimal control of MGs under unknown attack scenarios. The controller hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiment will be conducted to provide a realistic validation of the proposed method.The CRMG project will bridge the research limitations and provide solutions for cyber-resilience enhancement of MGs. The proposed research is important and timely, as the cyber-resilience of the electricity grid is an emerging and urgent concern for many European countries. The rapid development of renewable energy and IoT technologies transform the traditional power systems into distributed power and energy systems. The analysis and countermeasures of MGs under cyber-attacks will be investigated from system and control perspective, which can create both scientific and practical values. A software package with the proposed control tools will be provided, which includes a resilient framework to protect the MG from communication malfunctions by attackers, and a data-driven controller to enhance the system resilience. The research outcome would contribute to the cyber-resilience of the electricity grid and future MG development in Europe. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of thingsengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningreinforcement learningnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Keywords Micro-grids secondary control distributed control cyber-physical system cyber-resilience deep reinforcement learning Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Net EU contribution € 224 933,76 Address South kensington campus exhibition road SW7 2AZ London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
