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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

We study robust testing and estimation of discrete distributions in the strong contamination model. We consider both the "centralized setting" and the "distributed setting with information constraints" including communication and local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun , Huanyu Zhang

We address the problem of detecting and mitigating the effect of malicious attacks to the sensors of a linear dynamical system. We develop a novel, efficient algorithm that uses a Satisfiability-Modulo-Theory approach to isolate the…

The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) is transforming power systems into complex, decentralized networks, particularly at the distribution level, where active distribution networks (ADNs) introduce new challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-14 J. G. De la Varga , J. M. Morales , S. Pineda

This paper studies robust nonparametric regression, in which an adversarial attacker can modify the values of up to $q$ samples from a training dataset of size $N$. Our initial solution is an M-estimator based on Huber loss minimization.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Puning Zhao , Zhiguo Wan

We study the problem of robust estimation under heterogeneous corruption rates, where each sample may be independently corrupted with a known but non-identical probability. This setting arises naturally in distributed and federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Jerry Li , Thomas A. Courtade

This paper considers the problem of optimal estimation for linear system with the measurement vector subject to arbitrary corruption by an adversarial agent. This problem is relevant to cyber-physical systems where, due to the tight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Charalambos Konstantinou , Rodney Roberts

This paper proposes a state estimator for large-scale linear systems described by the interaction of state-coupled subsystems affected by bounded disturbances. We equip each subsystem with a Local State Estimator (LSE) for the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Stefano Riverso , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Conditional estimation given specific covariate values (i.e., local conditional estimation or functional estimation) is ubiquitously useful with applications in engineering, social and natural sciences. Existing data-driven non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Viet Anh Nguyen , Fan Zhang , Jose Blanchet , Erick Delage , Yinyu Ye

We address the problem of distributed state estimation of a linear dynamical process in an attack-prone environment. Recent attempts to solve this problem impose stringent redundancy requirements on the measurement and communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Aritra Mitra , Faiq Ghawash , Shreyas Sundaram , Waseem Abbas

We address the problem of state estimation and attack isolation for general discrete-time nonlinear systems when sensors are corrupted by (potentially unbounded) attack signals. For a large class of nonlinear plants and observers, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

This paper discusses a general framework for designing robust state estimators for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. We consider systems that may be impacted by impulsive (sparse but otherwise arbitrary) measurement noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Laurent Bako , Madiha Nadri , Vincent Andrieu , Qinghua Zhang

This paper is concerned with the problem of distributed estimation for time-varying interconnected dynamic systems with arbitrary coupling structures. To guarantee the robustness of the designed estimators, novel distributed stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Yuchen Zhang , Bo Chen , Li Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

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

We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for a system under sparse signal corruption by a malicious agent. The reconstruction problem follows the standard error coding problem that has been studied extensively in the literature. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Yu Zheng , Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Lalit Mestha , Hema Achanta

In this paper, an attack-resilient estimation algorithm is presented for linear discrete-time stochastic systems with state and input constraints. It is shown that the state estimation errors of the proposed estimation algorithm are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros G. Voulgaris

Estimating covariance matrices with high-dimensional complex data presents significant challenges, particularly concerning positive definiteness, sparsity, and numerical stability. Existing robust sparse estimators often fail to guarantee…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Shaoxin Wang , Ziyun Ma

Many modern datasets are collected automatically and are thus easily contaminated by outliers. This led to a regain of interest in robust estimation, including new notions of robustness such as robustness to adversarial contamination of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Pierre Alquier , Mathieu Gerber

We propose a technique to assess the vulnerability of the power system state estimator. We aim at identifying measurements that have a high potential of being the target of false data injection attacks. From an adversary's point of view,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Gonzalo E. Constante-Flores , Antonio J. Conejo , Jiankang Wang

This paper addresses the problem of resilient state estimation and attack reconstruction for bounded-error nonlinear discrete-time systems with nonlinear observations/ constraints, where both sensors and actuators can be compromised by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Mohammad Khajenejad , Zeyuan Jin , Thach Ngoc Dinh , Sze Zheng Yong