Special Issue: Resilient Distributed Estimator with Information Consensus for CPS Security

Feng Yu, Yaodan Hu, Teng Zhang, Yier Jin

Abstract: In this paper, we study the collaboratively estimating problem of a discrete-time LTI system with a time-varying undirected communication graph among sensors. The performance of resilient state estimators developed for cyber-physical systems (CPS) degenerates if the sensor measurements are compromised. To obtain robustness for the estimation, we propose Resilient Distributed Estimator with Information Consensus (RDEIC). RDEIC is a consensus-based resilient distributed algorithm that produces bounded state estimation errors with faulty sensors. Our algorithm converges to the true state in an attack-free scenario and it produces bounded estimation errors during an attack. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated with Matlab simulations.