A Secure Learning Control Strategy via Dynamic Camouflaging for Unknown Dynamical Systems under Attacks

02/01/2021
by   Sayak Mukherjee, et al.
0

This paper presents a secure reinforcement learning (RL) based control method for unknown linear time-invariant cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that are subjected to compositional attacks such as eavesdropping and covert attack. We consider the attack scenario where the attacker learns about the dynamic model during the exploration phase of the learning conducted by the designer to learn a linear quadratic regulator (LQR), and thereafter, use such information to conduct a covert attack on the dynamic system, which we refer to as doubly learning-based control and attack (DLCA) framework. We propose a dynamic camouflaging based attack-resilient reinforcement learning (ARRL) algorithm which can learn the desired optimal controller for the dynamic system, and at the same time, can inject sufficient misinformation in the estimation of system dynamics by the attacker. The algorithm is accompanied by theoretical guarantees and extensive numerical experiments on a consensus multi-agent system and on a benchmark power grid model.

READ FULL TEXT
research
04/25/2023

Model Extraction Attacks Against Reinforcement Learning Based Controllers

We introduce the problem of model-extraction attacks in cyber-physical s...
research
11/12/2020

Imposing Robust Structured Control Constraint on Reinforcement Learning of Linear Quadratic Regulator

This paper discusses learning a structured feedback control to obtain su...
research
11/21/2020

Learning-based attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems: Exploration, Detection, and Control Cost trade-offs

We study the problem of learning-based attacks in linear systems, where ...
research
06/26/2023

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Dynamic Resiliency Against Unknown Attack Vectors in Microgrid Cybersecurity Games

Cyber-physical microgrids are vulnerable to rootkit attacks that manipul...
research
03/25/2019

A Scalable and Optimal Graph-Search Method for Secure State Estimation

The growing complexity of modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the fr...
research
11/02/2020

Reinforcement Learning of Structured Control for Linear Systems with Unknown State Matrix

This paper delves into designing stabilizing feedback control gains for ...
research
04/24/2022

Learning to Attack Powergrids with DERs

In the past years, power grids have become a valuable target for cyber-a...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset