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Intelligent robust control for cyber-physical systems of rotary gantry type under denial of service attack

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This paper presents an approach for tolerant control and compensation of cyber attacks on the inputs and outputs of a cyber-physical system of rotary gantry type. The proposed control schemes are designed based on classic–intelligent control strategies for trajectory tracking and vibration control of a networked control system, which are developed for tip angular position control, while the system is prone to cyber attacks. The malicious attacks are assumed to be of denial of service (DoS) kind and cause packet loss with high probability in the two signals; control input and sensor output. In this paper, several classic and intelligent control strategies are studied in terms of robustness and effectiveness to attacks. Based on the results, a new hybrid control scheme is designed using linear quadratic regulation, sliding mode control, and artificial radial basis function neural network to alleviate the effect of DoS attacks and maintain the performance of the cyber-rotary gantry system in tracking applications. The neural network controller is trained during the control process. Its learning algorithm is based on the minimization of a cost function which contains the sliding surface. The hybrid control system is analyzed from the stability perspective. Moreover, the efficiency of the proposed scheme is validated by simulation on MATLAB Simulink platform.

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Authors are indebted to the Advanced Networking and Security research Laboratory (ANSLab) for the support provided during this study.

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Sayad Haghighi, M., Farivar, F., Jolfaei, A. et al. Intelligent robust control for cyber-physical systems of rotary gantry type under denial of service attack. J Supercomput 76, 3063–3085 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-019-03075-2

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