Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System

The use of solar panels is becoming increasingly important now as a source of renewable energy. With the different systems designed to invest solar energy and the different electronic attacks on renewable energy systems, the importance of designing a photovoltaic system with different features appe...

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Main Authors: Aqeel Sajjad Shaeel, Huda Hussein Abed, Ahmed Fahim Al-Baghdadi
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Language:English
Published: University of Diyala 2025-06-01
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author Aqeel Sajjad Shaeel
Huda Hussein Abed
Ahmed Fahim Al-Baghdadi
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Huda Hussein Abed
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description The use of solar panels is becoming increasingly important now as a source of renewable energy. With the different systems designed to invest solar energy and the different electronic attacks on renewable energy systems, the importance of designing a photovoltaic system with different features appears in terms of detecting the attack on the input of the control unit to the system, and thus knowing the electronic attacks targeting the control unit. In this paper, a solar farm system based on cyberattack detection is designed and analyzed using MATLAB Simulink. First, the proposed system detects and identifies cyberattacks, such as Time Delay Attacks (TDA), on the PV controller. Second, it diagnoses physical attacks, including Short Circuit Faults (SCF), and evaluates their impact on the photovoltaic controller. The simulation comprises TDA and SCF attacks and their impact on current and voltage waveforms in the PV system. These types of attacks mainly depend on delaying or changing the triggering signal, which leads to an effect on the output signals. In addition, the modulation-index feature is adopted in verifying the presence of attacks and diagnosing their type on the photovoltaic farm configuration, it reaches its highest value of 0.91 when the solar farm is operating properly. On the other hand, it is disturbed and fluctuates to reach 0.66 and 0.16 in the case of SCA and TDA, respectively. The Simulink results demonstrate that the electronic attack affected the current and voltage for each solar cell at the attack simulation time of 0.4 seconds.
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spelling doaj-art-a0d32497764a445bae4ec6a51f62aa482025-08-20T03:31:29ZengUniversity of DiyalaDiyala Journal of Engineering Sciences1999-87162616-69092025-06-0118210.24237/djes.2025.18210Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm SystemAqeel Sajjad Shaeel0Huda Hussein Abed1Ahmed Fahim Al-Baghdadi2Engineering Technical College-Najaf, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Najaf, IraqDepartment of Communication Techniques, Engineering Technical College-Najaf, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Najaf, Iraq.Department of Medical Devices Techniques, Najaf Technical Institute, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Najaf, Iraq. The use of solar panels is becoming increasingly important now as a source of renewable energy. With the different systems designed to invest solar energy and the different electronic attacks on renewable energy systems, the importance of designing a photovoltaic system with different features appears in terms of detecting the attack on the input of the control unit to the system, and thus knowing the electronic attacks targeting the control unit. In this paper, a solar farm system based on cyberattack detection is designed and analyzed using MATLAB Simulink. First, the proposed system detects and identifies cyberattacks, such as Time Delay Attacks (TDA), on the PV controller. Second, it diagnoses physical attacks, including Short Circuit Faults (SCF), and evaluates their impact on the photovoltaic controller. The simulation comprises TDA and SCF attacks and their impact on current and voltage waveforms in the PV system. These types of attacks mainly depend on delaying or changing the triggering signal, which leads to an effect on the output signals. In addition, the modulation-index feature is adopted in verifying the presence of attacks and diagnosing their type on the photovoltaic farm configuration, it reaches its highest value of 0.91 when the solar farm is operating properly. On the other hand, it is disturbed and fluctuates to reach 0.66 and 0.16 in the case of SCA and TDA, respectively. The Simulink results demonstrate that the electronic attack affected the current and voltage for each solar cell at the attack simulation time of 0.4 seconds. https://www.djes.info/index.php/djes/article/view/1542TDASCF PV Farm MPPT Cybersecurity
spellingShingle Aqeel Sajjad Shaeel
Huda Hussein Abed
Ahmed Fahim Al-Baghdadi
Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System
Diyala Journal of Engineering Sciences
TDA
SCF
PV Farm
MPPT
Cybersecurity
title Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System
title_full Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System
title_fullStr Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System
title_full_unstemmed Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System
title_short Modeling and Detection of Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Control Unit of PV Farm System
title_sort modeling and detection of cyber and physical attacks on the control unit of pv farm system
topic TDA
SCF
PV Farm
MPPT
Cybersecurity
url https://www.djes.info/index.php/djes/article/view/1542
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