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Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by their ability to integrate the physical and information or cyber worlds. Their deployment in critical infrastructure have demonstrated a potential to transform the world. However, harnessing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Felix Olowononi , Danda B. Rawat , Chunmei Liu

We explore an optimal impulse control problem wherein an electronic device owner strategically calibrates protection levels against cyber attacks. Utilizing epidemiological compartment models, we qualitatively characterize the dynamics of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Caroline Hillairet , Thibaut Mastrolia , Wissal Sabbagh

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to satisfy safety constraints in various application domains such as robotics, industrial manufacturing systems, and power systems. Faults and cyber attacks have been shown to cause safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Abdullah Al Maruf , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

We discuss challenges to control systems engineering arising from the advent of cyber-physical systems (CPS). After discussing the terminology, general, IT-related issues are treated which need cooperation with computer science, in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Stefan Kowalewski , Bernhard Rumpe , Andre Stollenwerk

Principles of modern cyber-physical system (CPS) analysis are based on analytical methods that depend on whether safety or liveness requirements are considered. Complexity is abstracted through different techniques, ranging from stochastic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Eric M. S. P. Veith , Lars Fischer , Martin Tröschel , Astrid Nieße

This paper focuses on the problem of cyber attacks for discrete event systems under supervisory control. In more detail, the goal of the supervisor, who has a partial observation of the system evolution, is that of preventing the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Qi Zhang , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

We consider the problem of controller design for linear time-invariant cyber-physical systems (CPSs) controlled via networks. Specifically, we adopt the set-up that a controller has already been designed to stabilize the plant. However, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Yankai Lin , Michelle S. Chong , Carlos Murguia

This paper studies provable security guarantees for cyber-physical systems (CPS) under actuator attacks. In particular, we consider CPS safety and propose a new attack detection mechanism based on zeroing control barrier function (ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Concerns for the resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)s in critical infrastructure are growing. CPS integrate sensing, computation, control, and networking into physical objects and mission-critical services, connecting traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mariana Segovia-Ferreira , Jose Rubio-Hernan , Ana Rosa Cavalli , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Securing cyber-physical systems (CPS) against malicious attacks is of paramount importance because these attacks may cause irreparable damages to physical systems. Recent studies have revealed that control programs running on CPS devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Long Cheng , Ke Tian , Danfeng Yao , Lui Sha , Raheem A. Beyah

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) revolutionize various application domains with integration and interoperability of networking, computing systems, and mechanical devices. Due to its scale and variety, CPS faces a number of challenges and opens…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Pradeeban Kathiravelu , Luís Veiga

A Cyber Physical System (CPS) consists of cyber components for computation and communication, and physical components such as sensors and actuators for process control. These components are networked and interact in a feedback loop. CPS are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Sridhar Adepu , Venkata Reddy Palleti , Gyanendra Mishra , Aditya Mathur

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are the conjoining of an entities' physical and computational elements. The development of a typical CPS system follows a sequence from conceptual modeling, testing in simulated (virtual) worlds, testing in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Vijay Gadepally , Ashok Krishnamurthy , Umit Ozguner

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are systems composed by a physical component that is controlled or monitored by a cyber-component, a computer-based algorithm. Advances in CPS technologies and science are enabling capability, adaptability,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mario Lezoche , Hervé Panetto

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been increasingly attacked by hackers. Recent studies have shown that CPS are especially vulnerable to insider attacks, in which case the attacker has full knowledge of the systems configuration. To better…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-30 Michael Biehler , Zhen Zhong , Jianjun Shi

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to operate safely under fault and malicious attacks. The simplex architecture and the recently proposed cyber resilient architectures, e.g., Byzantine fault tolerant++ (BFT++), provide safety for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Luyao Niu , Abdullah Al Maruf , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

We introduce the problem of learning-based attacks in a simple abstraction of cyber-physical systems---the case of a discrete-time, linear, time-invariant plant that may be subject to an attack that overrides the sensor readings and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Anatoly Khina , Massimo Franceschetti , Tara Javidi

This paper introduces a two-timescale hierarchical decentralized control architecture for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The system consists of a global controller (GC), and N local controllers (LCs). The GC operates at a slower timescale,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Kesav Kaza , Ramachandran Anantharaman , Rahul Meshram

Today's cyber physical systems (CPS) are not well protected against cyber attacks. Protected CPS often have holes in their defense, due to the manual nature of today's cyber security design process. It is necessary to automate or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Robert Laddaga , Paul Robertson , Howard Shrobe , Dan Cerys , Prakash Manghwani , Patrik Meijer

In this paper, we study the impact of stealthy attacks on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) modeled as a stochastic linear system. An attack is characterised by a malicious injection into the system through input, output or both, and it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Tianju Sui , Yilin Mo , Damián Marelli , Ximing Sun , Minyue Fu