A Data-Driven Approach To Preserve Safety and Reference Tracking for Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems Under Network Attacks

Abstract: This paper proposes a worst-case data-driven control architecture capable of ensuring the safety of constrained Cyber-Physical Systems under cyber-attacks while minimizing, whenever possible, potential degradation in tracking performance. To this end, a data-driven robust anomaly detector is designed to detect cyber-attack occurrences. Moreover, an add-on tracking supervisor module allows safe open-loop tracking control operations in case of unreliable measurements. On the plant side, a safety verification module and a local emergency controller are designed to manage severe attack scenarios that cannot be handled on the controller's side. These two modules resort to worst-case reachability and controllability data-driven arguments to detect potential unsafe scenarios and replace, whenever strictly needed, the tracking controller with emergency actions whose objective is to steer the plant's state trajectory in a predefined set of admissible and safe robust control invariant region until an attack-free scenario is restored. The effectiveness of the proposed solution has been shown through a simulation example.