Adaptive neural network control for nonlinear cyber-physical systems subject to false data injection attacks with prescribed performance

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs), as emerging products of industry 4.0 , play a key role in the development of intelligent manufacturing. This paper proposes an observer-based adaptive neural network (NN) control for nonlinear strict-feedback CPSs subject to false data injection attacks. Since there may be strict constraints on the state or output signals of nonlinear cyber-physical systems (NCPSs), we propose a time-varying asymmetric barrier Lyapunov function to realize the specific output constraints of NCPSs under cyber-attacks. Besides, since false data injection attacks will corrupt the transmitted state variables, an observer is designed to obtain observations of the exact states, and NN is used to approximate the unknown nonlinearity of NCPSs. With the proposed control strategy, the constraint control problem of NCPSs subject to false data injection attacks is settled. Finally, a numerical simulation example verifies the effectiveness of the proposed controller. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Towards symbiotic autonomous systems’.