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This paper proposes a secure state estimation scheme with non-periodic asynchronous measurements for linear continuous-time systems under false data attacks on the measurement transmit channel. After sampling the output of the system, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Zishuo Li , Anh Tung Nguyen , André Teixeira , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

This paper presents a secure safety filter design for nonlinear systems under sensor spoofing attacks. Existing approaches primarily focus on linear systems which limits their applications in real-world scenarios. In this work, we extend…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

Cyber-physical systems are found in many applications such as power networks, manufacturing processes, and air and ground transportation systems. Maintaining security of these systems under cyber attacks is an important and challenging…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Young Hwan Chang , Qie Hu , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing the supremal covert damage-reachable attacker, in the setup where the model of the supervisor is unknown to the adversary but the adversary has recorded a (prefix-closed) finite set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In this paper, we introduce a new vulnerability of cyber-physical systems to malicious attack. It arises when the physical plant, that is modeled as a continuous-time LTI system, is controlled by a digital controller. In the sampled-data…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jihan Kim , Gyunghoon Park , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun

We consider malicious attacks on actuators and sensors of a feedback system which can be modeled as additive, possibly unbounded, disturbances at the digital (cyber) part of the feedback loop. We precisely characterize the role of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Mohammad Naghnaeian , Nabil Hirzallah , Petros G. Voulgaris

A coordinated cyber-attack on grid meter readings and breaker statuses can lead to incorrect state estimation that can subsequently destabilize the grid. This paper studies cyber-attacks by an adversary that changes breaker statuses on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

In this paper, coordination control of discrete event systems under joint sensor and actuator attacks is investigated. Sensor attacks are described by a set of attack languages using a proposed ALTER model. Several local supervisors are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Fei Wang , Jan Komenda , Feng Lin

Network-based attacks on control systems may alter sensor data delivered to the controller, effectively causing degradation in control performance. As a result, having access to accurate state estimates, even in the presence of attacks on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

This paper considers a method of coding the sensor outputs in order to detect stealthy false data injection attacks. An intelligent attacker can design a sequence of data injection to sensors and actuators that pass the state estimator and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fei Miao , Quanyan Zhu , Miroslav Pajic , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we present a scheme of fully distributed resilient state estimation for linear dynamical systems under sensor attacks. The proposed state observer consists of a network of local observers, where each of them utilizes local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Jin Gyu Lee , Junsoo Kim , Hyungbo Shim

Cyber-physical attacks impose a significant threat to the smart grid, as the cyber attack makes it difficult to identify the actual damage caused by the physical attack. To defend against such attacks, various inference-based solutions have…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yudi Huang , Ting He , Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri , Thomas La Porta

The resilience of cyberphysical systems to denial-of-service (DoS) and integrity attacks is studied in this paper. The cyberphysical system is modeled as a linear structured system, and its resilience to an attack is interpreted in a graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , M. A. Rajan , M. Girish Chandra , Rance Cleaveland , Steven I. Marcus

We consider a sensor network focused on target localization, where sensors measure the signal strength emitted from the target. Each measurement is quantized to one bit and sent to the fusion center. A general attack is considered at some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Rick S. Blum , Lance M. Kaplan

We address the problem of attack detection and attack correction for multi-output discrete-time linear time-invariant systems under sensor attack. More specifically, we focus on the situation where adversarial attack signals are added to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-16 Zhanghan Tang , Margreta Kuijper , Michelle Chong , Iven Mareels , Chris Leckie

In this paper, we investigate data-driven attack detection and identification in a model-free setting. We consider a practically motivated scenario in which the available dataset may be compromised by malicious sensor attacks, but contains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Takumi Shinohara , Karl H. Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

Motivated by the need for real-time health monitoring of power distribution grids, we propose a secure state estimator design for continuous time Lur'e type systems with non-uniformly and synchronously sampled outputs which have potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Julian Gootzen , Michelle S. Chong

This paper is concerned with the analysis and design of secure Distributed Control Systems in the face of integrity attacks on sensors and controllers by external attackers or insiders. In general a DCS consists of many heterogenous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Sean Weerakkody , Xiaofei Liu , Sang H. Son , Bruno Sinopoli

We consider the distributed $H_\infty$ estimation problem with additional requirement of resilience to biasing attacks. An attack scenario is considered where an adversary misappropriates some of the observer nodes and injects biasing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-27 V. Ugrinovskii

Distributed sensor networks are commonly operated through coincidence logic: if detector reports overlap within a prescribed time window, an event is declared. While effective for clean, high-significance signals, this approach becomes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-27 Thammarat Yawisit