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Critical Infrastructure Online Fault Detection: Application in Water Supply Systems

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In this paper we first introduce a testbed that is able to emulate the operation and common faults of a water supply system, as well as its interaction with a SCADA system. Then we implement an online fault detection algorithm based on a fault diagnosis architecture for nonlinear uncertain discrete-time systems, that we apply and test with the testbed. We finally present some experimental results illustrating the effectiveness of this approach.

This work was partially supported by the Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security-related Risks Programme European Commission - Directorate - General Home Affairs under the FACIES project, and by the European Research Council Advanced Grant FAULT-ADAPTIVE (ERC-AdG-291508).

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Heracleous, C. et al. (2016). Critical Infrastructure Online Fault Detection: Application in Water Supply Systems. In: Panayiotou, C., Ellinas, G., Kyriakides, E., Polycarpou, M. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8985. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31664-2_11

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