Thruster Fault Detection for Unmanned Marine Vehicles Under DoS Attacks: An Asynchronous Switched Method

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Summary

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This study introduces a new fault detection (FD) strategy for unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) to counter external disturbances and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The developed method ensures system stability and performance, improving UMV security and reliability.

Area Of Science

  • Marine Engineering
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity

Background

  • Unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) face security challenges from external disturbances and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
  • Existing fault detection (FD) methods struggle with timely detection of aperiodic DoS attacks.
  • Asynchronous switched systems provide a framework for modeling UMVs under these complex conditions.

Purpose Of The Study

  • To develop a novel fault detection (FD) strategy for unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs).
  • To address the challenge of detecting aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in real-time.
  • To ensure system stability and performance under external disturbances and DoS attacks.

Main Methods

  • Modeling the UMV and its filters as an asynchronous switched system.
  • Utilizing model-dependent average dwell time (MDADT) and piecewise Lyapunov functions (PLFs) to derive stability conditions.
  • Calculating the bounds for tolerable sleep intervals and DoS attack intervals.
  • Employing decoupling techniques for the design of FD filters.

Main Results

  • Sufficient conditions for exponential stability and prescribed performance were derived.
  • The lower bound of the tolerable sleep interval and the upper bound of the DoS attack interval were rigorously calculated.
  • Design criteria for FD filters were obtained.
  • Simulations confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed FD strategy on a UMV.

Conclusions

  • The novel FD strategy effectively enhances UMV resilience against external disturbances and DoS attacks.
  • The method ensures system stability and performance, crucial for autonomous marine operations.
  • The derived conditions and filter design criteria provide a robust framework for UMV security.

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