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Although adverse effects of attacks have been acknowledged in many cyber-physical systems, there is no system-theoretic comprehension of how a compromised agent can leverage communication capabilities to maximize the damage in distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

This paper proposes an active attack detection scheme for constrained cyber-physical systems. Despite passive approaches where the detection is based on the analysis of the input-output data, active approaches interact with the system by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli

This study presents a scalable data-driven algorithm designed to efficiently address the challenging problem of reachability analysis. Analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS) relies typically on parametric physical models of dynamical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Navid Hashemi , Lars Lindemann , Jyotirmoy Deshmukh

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), in most instances, represent systems of systems with an informationally decentralized structure such as emerging mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Andreas Malikopoulos

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) are present in many settings addressing a myriad of purposes. Examples are Internet-of-Things (IoT) or sensing software embedded in appliances or even specialised meters that measure and respond to electricity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Luca Arnaboldi , Ricardo M. Czekster , Roberto Metere , Charles Morisset

Cyber attacks have become serious threats to Industrial Control systems as well. It becomes important to develop a serious threat defense system against such vulnerabilities. For such process control systems, safety should also be assured…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Manikanta Reddy Dornala

This paper addresses the challenge of amplitude-unbounded false data injection (FDI) attacks targeting the sensor-to-controller (S-C) channel in cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We introduce a resilient tube-based model predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Yuzhou Xiao , Senchun Chai , Li Dai , Yuanqing Xia , Runqi Chai

We consider a security problem for interconnected systems governed by linear, discrete, time-invariant, stochastic dynamics, where the objective is to detect exogenous attacks by processing the measurements at different locations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Rajasekhar Anguluri , Vaibhav Katewa , Fabio Pasqualetti

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. The main idea of the proposed approach is to invalidate the knowledge that the attackers use to mask the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

Despite the impressive progress in the field of presentation attack detection and multimedia forensics over the last decade, these systems are still vulnerable to attacks in real-life settings. Some of the challenges for existing solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ali Khodabakhsh , Zahid Akhtar

Multi-targeted adversarial attacks aim to mislead classifiers toward specific target classes using a single perturbation generator with a conditional input specifying the desired target class. Existing methods face two key limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Taïga Gonçalves , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi

Closed-loop control systems employ continuous sensing and actuation to maintain controlled variables within preset bounds and achieve the desired system output. Intentional disturbances in the system, such as in the case of cyberattacks,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Vuk Lesi , Marcio Juliato , Shabbir Ahmed , Christopher Gutierrez , Qian Wang , Manoj Sastry

The proliferation and application of machine learning based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have allowed for more flexibility and efficiency in the automated detection of cyber attacks in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Eirini Anthi , Lowri Williams , Matilda Rhode , Pete Burnap , Adam Wedgbury

The state estimation of continuous-time nonlinear systems in which a subset of sensor outputs can be maliciously controlled through injecting a potentially unbounded additive signal is considered in this paper. Analogous to our earlier work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Michelle S. Chong , Henrik Sandberg , Joao P. Hespanha

We consider the problem of securing a given control loop implementation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) in the presence of Man-in-the-Middle attacks on data exchange between plant and controller over a compromised network. To this end,…

This paper presents a system identification framework -- inspired by multi-task learning -- to estimate the dynamics of a given number of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems jointly by leveraging structural similarities across the systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Yiting Chen , Ana M. Ospina , Fabio Pasqualetti , Emiliano Dall'Anese

System identification is a key enabling component for the implementation of quantum technologies, including quantum control. In this paper, we consider the class of passive linear input-output systems, and investigate several basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Madalin Guta , Naoki Yamamoto

The threat of attack faced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs), especially when they play a critical role in automating public infrastructure, has motivated research into a wide variety of attack defence mechanisms. Assessing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yuqi Chen , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun , Sridhar Adepu , Fan Zhang

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