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We study how to secure distributed filters for linear time-invariant systems with bounded noise under false-data injection attacks. A malicious attacker is able to arbitrarily manipulate the observations for a time-varying and unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Xingkang He , Xiaoqiang Ren , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Given a linear dynamical system affected by noise, we study the problem of optimally placing sensors (at design-time) subject to a sensor placement budget constraint in order to minimize the trace of the steady-state error covariance of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Lintao Ye , Sandip Roy , Shreyas Sundaram

The problem of faulty sensor detection is investigated in large sensor networks where the sensor faults are sparse and time-varying, such as those caused by attacks launched by an adversary. Group testing and the Kalman filter are designed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Mengqi Ren , Ruixin Niu

Set-based state estimation provides guaranteed state inclusion certificates that are crucial for the safety verification of dynamical systems. However, when system sensors are subject to cyberattacks, maintaining both safety and security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 M. Umar B. Niazi , Michelle S. Chong , Amr Alanwar , Karl H. Johansson

This paper studies the distributed state estimation in sensor network, where $m$ sensors are deployed to infer the $n$-dimensional state of a linear time-invariant (LTI) Gaussian system. By a lossless decomposition of optimal steady-state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Jiaqi Yan , Xu Yang , Yilin Mo , Keyou You

We develop a general framework for state estimation in systems modeled with noise-polluted continuous time dynamics and discrete time noisy measurements. Our approach is based on maximum likelihood estimation and employs the calculus of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Griffin M. Kearney , Makan Fardad

The development of algorithms for secure state estimation in vulnerable cyber-physical systems has been gaining attention in the last years. A consolidated assumption is that an adversary can tamper a relatively small number of sensors. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto , Francesco Ripa

This paper studies attack-resilient estimation of a class of switched nonlinear systems subject to stochastic noises. The systems are threatened by both of signal attacks and switching attacks. The problem is formulated as the joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Hunmin Kim , Pinyao Guo , Minghui Zhu , Peng Liu

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

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

We consider the problem of robust state estimation in the presence of integrity attacks. There are $m$ sensors monitoring a dynamical process. Subject to the integrity attacks, $p$ out of $m$ measurements can be arbitrarily manipulated. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Duo Han , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

State estimation refers to determining the states of a dynamical system that starts from a noisy initial condition and evolves under process noise, based on noisy measurements and a known system model. For linear dynamical systems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Avneet Kaur , Ruikun Zhou , Jun Liu , Kirsten Morris

State estimation is a fundamental problem in control and signal processing, for which the Kalman Filter provides an optimal solution under linear dynamics, Gaussian noise, and known noise covariances. However, these assumptions often fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Vasileios Saketos , Ming Xiao

We address the problem of determining optimal sensor precisions for estimating the states of linear time-varying discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems, with guaranteed bounds on the estimation errors. This is performed in the Kalman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Niladri Das , Raktim Bhattacharya

This paper considers a sensor attack and fault detection problem for linear cyber-physical systems, which are subject to system noise that can obey an unknown light-tailed distribution. We propose a new threshold-based detection mechanism…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dan Li , Sonia Martínez

We propose a method to perform set-based state estimation of an unknown dynamical linear system using a data-driven set propagation function. Our method comes with set-containment guarantees, making it applicable to safety-critical systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Amr Alanwar , Alexander Berndt , Karl Henrik Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

In a sensor network, some sensors usually provide the same or equivalent measurement information, which is not taken into account by the existing secure state estimation methods against sparse sensor attacks such that the computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Liwei An , Guang-Hong Yang

Structural identification and damage detection can be generalized as the simultaneous estimation of input forces, physical parameters, and dynamical states. Although Kalman-type filters are efficient tools to address this problem, the…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-04 Daniz Teymouri , Omid Sedehi , Lambros S. Katafygiotis , Costas Papadimitriou

This paper studies static state estimation in multi-sensor settings, with a caveat that an unknown subset of the sensors are compromised by an adversary, whose measurements can be manipulated arbitrarily. The attacker is able to compromise…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Xiaoqiang Ren , Yilin Mo , Jie Chen , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we consider a secure distributed filtering problem for linear time-invariant systems with bounded noises and unstable dynamics under compromised observations. A malicious attacker is able to compromise a subset of the agents…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Xingkang He , Xiaoqiang Ren , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson