This paper is focused on the event-based secure control issue for cyber-physical systems (CPSs) under aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Malicious DoS attacks disrupt the communication between the controller and the actuator. The finite attack resources of malicious attackers are taken into consideration, and the DoS attacks are characterized using an aperiodic model. In contrast to prior results, the present study tackles the issue of secure controller design by considering the attributes of the DoS attack, instead of employing a switched system approach to address the aforementioned concerns. More specifically, under aperiodic DoS attacks, sufficient criteria are established to guarantee that the closed-loop CPSs can achieve bounded stability. Then, within a time-varying attack period, the relationship between the attack active interval and the attack silent interval is derived. Without satisfying the derived conditions, the system’s stability will deteriorate. Moreover, an event-based secure control scheme under aperiodic DoS attacks is designed. To verify the efficacy of the derived theory, a wheeled mobile robot system under aperiodic DoS attacks is illustrated. Note to Practitioners—CPSs have been widely utilized in various domains, such as aerospace and intelligent transportation. However, the openness of networks provides attackers with numerous opportunities for malicious assaults, consequently leading to a degradation in system performance. Consequently, researching the security issues of CPSs under malicious attacks is of utmost urgency. This paper focuses on the issue of event-triggered secure control for CPSs in the presence of energy-constrained aperiodic DoS attacks. The event-triggered communication mechanism is introduced to reduce the computational burden. The criteria for ensuring the bounded stability of CPSs under aperiodic DoS attacks are proposed. The relationship between the attack active interval and the attack silent interval is derived, which is incorporated into the proposed criteria. A wheeled mobile robot system is given to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. In the future, an active defense control method will be proposed to counter malicious attacks.

This article is focused on security analysis and control problems of cyber–physical systems (CPSs) under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, which jam the controller-actuator channel. Considering the limited attack energy of malicious adversaries, DoS attacks are described by a periodic model. Different from existing results, both the security analysis and secure controller design problems are addressed based on the characteristics of DoS attack model rather than utilizing the switching system theory to solve the aforementioned problems. First, sufficient conditions are derived to ensure that the resultant closed-loop CPS under DoS attacks can preserve the exponential stability, and the critical value of the attack period is derived, below which the stability is deteriorated. Second, the relation between our proposed conditions and reinforcement learning-based control is established, based on which the security of reinforcement learning-based control can be evaluated effectively. Finally, both DoS attacks and external disturbances are considered in a unified framework, and sufficient conditions are proposed to evaluate the security of the closed-loop CPSs and design a secure controller. Finally, a mobile robot is adopted to validate the efficacy of the proposed methods.

This article addresses the secure control issue for cyber-physical systems (CPSs) under aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Malicious DoS attacks disrupt the communication between the controller and the actuator. The finite attack resources of malevolent attackers are taken into consideration, and the DoS attacks are characterized using an aperiodic model. In contrast to prior results, the present study tackles the issues of security analysis and secure controller design by considering the attributes of the DoS attacks, instead of employing a switched system approach to address the aforementioned concerns. First, under aperiodic DoS attacks, sufficient criteria are established to guarantee that the closed-loop CPSs can attain asymptotical stability. Second, within a time-varying attack period, the relationship between the attack active interval and the attack silent interval is derived, if this relation is not satisfied, the stability of the system will deteriorate. Finally, a unified framework is developed to address the external disturbances and aperiodic DoS attacks. Sufficient criteria are introduced for evaluating the security of CPSs, and a corresponding secure control scheme is also designed. To verify the efficacy of the derived theory, a wheeled mobile robot system under aperiodic DoS attacks is illustrated.