Collaborative Vehicle Platoons With Guaranteed Safety Against Cyber-Attacks

Twan Keijzer; Paula Chanfreut Palacio; José M. Maestre; Riccardo M.G. Ferrari

doi:10.1109/TITS.2024.3503370

Collaborative Vehicle Platoons With Guaranteed Safety Against Cyber-Attacks

Twan Keijzer, Paula Chanfreut Palacio, José M. Maestre, Riccardo M.G. Ferrari (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

The wireless communication used by vehicles in collaborative vehicle platoons is vulnerable to cyber-attacks, which threaten their safe operation. To address this issue we propose a topology-switching coalitional model predictive control (MPC) method based on a reduced order unknown input observer which detects and isolates the cyber-attacks, so that the attacked communication links can be disabled by means of a topology switch. Also, the MPC controller is designed to guarantee robustness against undetected attacks and the increase of uncertainty derived from disabling communication links. The proposed control method also conforms to a relaxed string stability condition and is guaranteed to be safe against crashes.

Original language	English
Article number	10774076
Pages (from-to)	295-308
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume	26
Issue number	1
Early online date	3 Dec 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2024.3503370
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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This work was supported in part by Spanish Training Program for Academic Staff under Grant FPU17/02653 and in part by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN)/Spanish State Research Agency (AEI)/10.13039/501100011033 Project C3PO-R2D2 under Grant PID2020-119476RB-I00.

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Cyber-attack tolerant control
coalitional control
model predictive control
topology-switching control

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