Resilient Control Architectures and Power Systems

With greater reliance on network-based, digital automation and the stresses of pressing infrastructure for greater performance, the power grid has become more complex and more susceptible to both malicious attacks and natural threats. It is that resilience plays a large role in grid control design and development. A resilient control system is one that maintains state awareness and an accepted level of operational normalcy in response to disturbances. Resilient control systems design seeks solutions to the complexity through a holistic approach combining cognitive science, computer security, communications, and control systems. This panel will provide insight on how power control systems work and how they can fail through cybersecurity threats, human error and complex interdependencies. This session will introduce interdisciplinary concepts .to make these control systems more resilient to these threats. Metrics are required for measurement of success, the session will provide a differentiation of how resilience is quantified and valued.