CAREER: Reliability and Resilience Assurance of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

职业：网络物理能源系统的可靠性和弹性保证

基本信息

批准号：
2404872
负责人：
Mohammed Ben-Idris
金额：
$ 50万
依托单位：
Michigan State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-10-01 至 2025-04-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2404872&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Reliability Resilience Assurance Cyber

项目摘要

Recent cyber-attacks and reconnaissance missions on cyber-physical energy systems (CPESs) have contributed to concerns regarding these systems' security, reliability, and resilience. As the deployment of new communication, computation, and control technologies in modern power systems increases, more sophisticated tools will be required to analyze and prevent failure and attack propagations between and within system layers. The objective of this project is to harden CPESs against failures and attacks and to educate future engineers about the new types of threats to future power systems and required tools to strengthen them. The proposed research encompasses the following key areas: classification of system layers and characterization of their interactions; establishment of new reliability and resilience indices; and development of advanced comprehensive models and methods for reliability and resilience assessment and enhancement of CPESs. The impacts of the proposed project extend well beyond these specific research areas. First, the problem of reliability and resilience assurance in power grids is timely since cyber-attacks and network reconnaissance missions have been increasing in recent years. Second, given that power grids are critical to the nation's economy and security and that the consequences of blackouts and damaged grid equipment are severe, it is becoming imperative to harden them against attacks and failure propagation. In addition to these large-scale contributions, the proposed research promises a direct and substantial educational impact, most notably by developing new curriculum, incorporating several project aspects into power reliability and resilient control courses, enhancing graduate and undergraduate research programs, and creating new student mentorship and career opportunities. The proposed research will contribute to the establishment of science and engineering principles for the design, reconstruction, and digitization of CPESs to ensure a secure, reliable, and resilient power supply, and will equip future generations of engineers with the necessary tools to operate and enhance them.While the objective of this proposal is to harden CPESs against failures and potential cyber- and physical-attacks, the proposed integrative approach addresses the reliability and resilience of future power grids and provides solutions to problems related to various research domains. The anticipated outcomes will advance the following topic areas: (1) characterizing inter- and intra-actions between and within system layers and sub-layers; (2) establishing a set of reliability and resilience indices to contribute to the power and energy industry's goal of developing standardized and universally accepted resilience indices and metrics for CPESs; (3) developing efficient hybrid evaluation methods based on the snowflake development theory for reliability and resilience assessment that is amenable to CPESs; and (4) developing a game theoretic approach to determine proactive defense solutions against unknown and unpredicted emerging threats. The research proposed here will contribute to the development of a transformative mathematical framework and methodology that will enable - both through direct consequences and through promotion of further research solutions to hurdles that presently impede the hardening of CPESs against catastrophic failures and attacks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

最近针对网络物理能源系统（CPES）的网络攻击和侦察任务引发了人们对这些系统的安全性、可靠性和弹性的担忧。随着现代电力系统中新通信、计算和控制技术的部署不断增加，将需要更复杂的工具来分析和防止系统层之间和系统内的故障和攻击传播。该项目的目标是强化 CPES 抵御故障和攻击的能力，并教育未来的工程师了解未来电力系统面临的新型威胁以及强化这些威胁所需的工具。拟议的研究涵盖以下关键领域：系统层的分类及其相互作用的表征；建立新的可靠性和弹性指数；开发先进的综合模型和方法，用于可靠性和弹性评估以及增强 CPES。拟议项目的影响远远超出了这些特定的研究领域。首先，由于近年来网络攻击和网络侦察任务不断增加，电网的可靠性和弹性保障问题迫在眉睫。其次，鉴于电网对国家经济和安全至关重要，停电和电网设备损坏后果严重，加强电网抵御攻击和故障传播势在必行。除了这些大规模贡献之外，拟议的研究还有望产生直接和实质性的教育影响，最显着的是通过开发新课程、将多个项目方面纳入电力可靠性和弹性控制课程、加强研究生和本科生研究计划以及培养新学生指导和职业机会。拟议的研究将有助于建立 CPES 设计、重建和数字化的科学和工程原理，以确保安全、可靠和有弹性的电力供应，并将为未来几代工程师提供必要的工具来操作和增强虽然该提案的目标是强化 CPES 来抵御故障以及潜在的网络和物理攻击，但所提出的综合方法解决了未来电网的可靠性和弹性，并为与各个研究领域相关的问题提供了解决方案。预期成果将推进以下主题领域：（1）描述系统层和子层之间和内部的交互和内部动作； (2) 建立一套可靠性和弹性指数，以帮助电力和能源行业实现为 CPES 开发标准化且普遍接受的弹性指数和指标的目标；（3）开发基于雪花发展理论的有效混合评估方法，用于可靠度和弹性评估，适合CPES； (4) 开发博弈论方法来确定针对未知和不可预测的新兴威胁的主动防御解决方案。这里提出的研究将有助于开发变革性的数学框架和方法，通过直接后果和促进进一步的研究解决方案来解决目前阻碍 CPES 抵御灾难性故障和攻击的障碍。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。