Cyber-Physical Security on Distributed Control Systems: an observer-based approach

This academic work was born as an evolution of the pre-existing BAT-MAN project developed in the last two years by the company Brain Technologies. From it, we took the basic concepts in order to apply them into the Cyber-physical security field. The goal in fact is to use an observer-based approach to be able to successfully detect an attack and, above all, identify the kind of attack the system is receiving. Different analysis and tests have been performed, so that only the most significant are presented in this work. The first part presents a brief dissertation of the cyberphysical security field in general. Part II aims to the introduction of the formal theory that explains the system developed, while in Part III an application to a DC-motor is presented, as well as the reasoning that took us to the final concept. Finally, Part IV concludes the work and presents a final discussion on the method.