The detection mechanism for false data injection attack via the ellipsoidal set-membership approach

The false data injection (FDI) attack detection problem in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is investigated in this paper. A novel attack detection algorithm is proposed based on the ellipsoidal set-membership approach. In comparison to the existing FDI attack detection methods, the developed attack detection approach in this paper neither requires predefined thresholds nor specific statistical characteristics of the attacks. In order to guarantee that the estimation ellipsoid contains normal states despite the unknown but bounded (UBB) process and measurement noises, the one-step ellipsoidal set-membership estimation method is put forward. In addition, a convex optimization algorithm is introduced to calculate the gain matrix of the observer recursively. Moreover, with the help of the state estimation ellipsoid, the residual ellipsoid can be obtained for attack detection. Whether a detector can detect the FDI attack depends on the relationship between the residual value and residual ellipsoidal set. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by a numerical simulation example.