Title
Robust Autoencoder-based State Estimation in Power Systems
Abstract
Smart Grids are critical cyber-physical systems where monitoring is crucial, especially the process of state estimation. Since this task strongly depends on the reliability of power grid meters and their communication channels, it is vulnerable to cyber-attacks and, particularly, false data injection attacks (FDIAs), which are modifications on the meter readings that are often hard to detect. In this paper, we propose a method to construct a robust state estimator based on a variational autoencoder trained on the Fisher-Rao distance, which is a measure of dissimilarity between probability distributions. Then, we introduce a novel method to generate FDIAs that exploits knowledge of the state estimator and its learning procedure, for which we show effectiveness. Finally, numerical results and comparison with state-of-the-art methods confirm that our approach can archive similar estimation errors for clean and noisy (attacked) measurements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ISGT50606.2022.9817514
2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Smart Grids,false data injection attacks,robustness,autoencoder,state estimation
Conference
2167-9665
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-3776-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marine Picot100.34
Francisco Javier Messina200.34
Fabrice Labeau300.34
Pablo Piantanida438955.41