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Physical Anomaly Detection in EV Charging Stations: Physics-based vs ResNet AE

  • Harindra S. Mavikumbure
  • , Victor Cobilean
  • , Chathurika S. Wickramasinghe
  • , Tyler Phillips
  • , Benny J. Varghese
  • , Barney Carlson
  • , Craig Rieger
  • , Timothy Pennington
  • , Milos Manic

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21 Scopus citations

Abstract

The number of electric car users has grown in recent years, increasing the demand for reliable electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS). The safety of EVCSs is very important as compromised charging stations can disrupt the grid, injure the end-users, and damage the vehicle. In this paper, we will focus on the physical security of EVCS, because physical attacks tend to be more harmful to the end user. Two anomaly detection approaches were presented for detecting physical anomalies: physics-based anomaly detection and deep learning-based anomaly detection (ResNet Autoencoder). The presented approaches were trained and tested using data collected from the EV Charging Station System testbed of the Idaho National Laboratory. Anomaly detection performance was evaluated on three different attack scenarios, targeting various parts of the system including power transfer subsystems and the cooling subsystem of the charger. The presented approaches were compared against two widely used unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms: OCSVM and LOF. Moreover, we evaluated the advantages and limitations of the physics-based vs ResNet Autoencoder approaches for each of the three attack scenarios. The ResNet Autoencoder approach showed the highest performance in terms of accuracy, F1, recall, and precision. Furthermore, this approach demonstrated a number of advantages including automated non-linear feature extraction and unsupervised learning.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2023 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-7
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798350399714
ISBN (Print)9798350399714
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 31 2023
Event32nd IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: Jun 19 2023Jun 21 2023

Publication series

Name2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2023
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period06/19/2306/21/23

Keywords

  • Anomaly Detection
  • Autoencoders
  • Deep Neural Networks
  • Electric Vehicle Charging Systems
  • Physics-based models
  • Unsupervised Learning

INL Publication Number

  • INL/CON-23-71108
  • 148074

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