Resilient control in large-scale networked cyber-physical systems: Guest editorial

Giuseppe Franze, Giancarlo Fortino, Xianghui Cao, Giuseppe Maria Luigi Sarne, Zhen Song
2020 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica  
R ECENT advances in sensing, communication and computing have open the door to the deployment of largescale networks of sensors and actuators that allow fine-grain monitoring and control of a multitude of physical processes and infrastructures. The appellation used by field experts for these paradigms is Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) because the dynamics among computers, networking media/resources and physical systems interact in a way that multi-disciplinary technologies (embedded systems,
more » ... ters, communications and controls) are required to accomplish prescribed missions. Moreover, they are expected to play a significant role in the design and development of future engineering applications such as smart grids, transportation systems, nuclear plants and smart factories. This special issue deals with the opportunities offered by these emerging technologies to mitigate undesired phenomena arising when intentional jamming and false data injections, categorized as cyber-attacks, infer communication channels. As it is well-known, the main consequence is that measurement and actuator data integrity and availability might be compromised with a significant degradation of the control performance [1]−[4]. The goal of this special issue is to provide new ideas and solutions when cyber-attack countermeasures or resilient control strategies are concerned. Along these lines, secure/robust and resilient control frameworks for networked control system (NCS) configurations capable to jointly take care of state/input constraints under cyber-attack occurrences on the communication medium are of noticeable interest. Accordingly, trust management, cyber-attacks in smart grids, internet of things systems of systems and applications in emerging domains (e.g. Internet of Vehicles, Smart Cities) assume a relevant importance in the new Industry 4.0 era [5]−[7].
doi:10.1109/jas.2020.1003327 fatcat:rzxybcfnbffszj43tkaueicofa