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Abstract
Smart grids are crucial for meeting rising energy demands driven by global
population growth and urbanization. By integrating renewable energy sources,
they enhance efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. However, ensuring
their availability and security requires advanced operational control and
safety measures. Although artificial intelligence and machine learning can help
assess grid stability, challenges such as data scarcity and cybersecurity
threats, particularly adversarial attacks, remain. Data scarcity is a major
issue, as obtaining real-world instances of grid instability requires
significant expertise, resources, and time. Yet, these instances are critical
for testing new research advancements and security mitigations. This paper
introduces a novel framework for detecting instability in smart grids using
only stable data. It employs a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) where the
generator is designed not to produce near-realistic data but instead to
generate Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) samples with respect to the stable class.
These OOD samples represent unstable behavior, anomalies, or disturbances that
deviate from the stable data distribution. By training exclusively on stable
data and exposing the discriminator to OOD samples, our framework learns a
robust decision boundary to distinguish stable conditions from any unstable
behavior, without requiring unstable data during training. Furthermore, we
incorporate an adversarial training layer to enhance resilience against
attacks. Evaluated on a real-world dataset, our solution achieves up to 98.1\%
accuracy in predicting grid stability and 98.9\% in detecting adversarial
attacks. Implemented on a single-board computer, it enables real-time
decision-making with an average response time of under 7ms.