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With the emergence of low-cost smart and connected IoT devices, the area of cyber-physical security is becoming increasingly important. Past research has demonstrated new threat vectors targeting the transition process between the cyber and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Zhiyuan Yu , Zack Kaplan , Qiben Yan , Ning Zhang

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 is concerned with the detection, resilient and fault-tolerant control issues for cyber-physical systems. To this end, the impairment of system dynamics caused by the defined types of cyber-attacks and process faults is analyzed.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Linlin Li , Steven X. Ding , Liutao Zhou , Maiying Zhong , Kaixiang Peng

Cyber-physical systems are integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes. Due to the tight cyber-physical coupling and to the potentially disrupting consequences of failures, security here is one of the primary concerns.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Yuriy Zacchia Lun , Alessandro D'Innocenzo , Ivano Malavolta , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

A well-designed attack in the power system can cause an initial failure and then results in large-scale cascade failure. Several works have discussed power system attack through false data injection, line-maintaining attack, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Hwei-Ming Chung , Wen-Tai Li , Chau Yuen , Wei-Ho Chung , Chao-Kai Wen

Networked-Control Systems (NCSs), a type of cyber-physical systems, consist of tightly integrated computing, communication and control technologies. While being very flexible environments, they are vulnerable to computing and networking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Michel Barbeau , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

This paper aims to create a secure environment for networked control systems composed of multiple dynamic entities and computational control units via networking, in the presence of disclosure attacks. In particular, we consider the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Yamin Yan , Zhiyong Chen , Vijay Varadharajan

The tight coupling between communication and control in cyber-physical systems is necessary to enable the complex regulation required to operate these systems. Unfortunately, cyberattackers can exploit network vulnerabilities to compromise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Amr S. Mohamed , Mohsen Khalaf , Deepa Kundur

Industrial Control System (ICS) networks transmit control and monitoring data in critical environments such as smart grid. Cyber attacks on smart grid communication may cause fatal consequences on energy production, distribution, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Nelson Makau Mutua , Petr Matoušek

Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) manage critical infrastructures by controlling the processes based on the "physics" data gathered by edge sensor networks. Recent innovations in ubiquitous computing and communication technologies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Hakan Kayan , Matthew Nunes , Omer Rana , Pete Burnap , Charith Perera

In this paper a novel set-theoretic control framework for Networked Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems is presented. By resorting to set-theoretic ideas and the physical watermarking concept, an anomaly detector module and a control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Walter Lucia , Bruno Sinopoli , Giuseppe Franze'

This chapter provides an overview of the evolving landscape of attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS) and critical infrastructures, highlighting the possible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to develop intelligent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Alan Oliveira de Sá , Charles Bezerra Prado , Mariana Luiza Flavio , Luiz F. Rust da C. Carmo

We study the performance of perception-based control systems in the presence of attacks, and provide methods for modeling and analysis of their resiliency to stealthy attacks on both physical and perception-based sensing. Specifically, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Amir Khazraei , Henry Pfister , Miroslav Pajic

This paper studies the physical consequences of a class of unobservable state-and-topology cyber-physical attacks in which both state and topology data for a sub-network of the network are changed by an attacker to mask a physical attack.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Jiazi Zhang , Lalitha Sankar

In this paper, we propose a data-driven networked control architecture for unknown and constrained cyber-physical systems capable of detecting networked false-data-injection attacks and ensuring plant's safety. In particular, on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia

While the increasing penetration of information and communication technology into distribution grid brings numerous benefits, it also opens up a new threat landscape, particularly through cyberattacks. To provide a basis for countermeasures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ömer Sen , Florian Schmidtke , Federico Carere , Francesca Santori , Andreas Ulbig , Antonello Monti

We propose a new defense mechanism against undetected infiltration into controllers in cyber-physical systems. To this end, we cautiously design the outputs of the sensors that monitor the state of the system. Different from the defense…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Başar

Physiological computing uses human physiological data as system inputs in real time. It includes, or significantly overlaps with, brain-computer interfaces, affective computing, adaptive automation, health informatics, and physiological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongrui Wu , Jiaxin Xu , Weili Fang , Yi Zhang , Liuqing Yang , Xiaodong Xu , Hanbin Luo , Xiang Yu

Consider a stochastic process being controlled across a communication channel. The control signal that is transmitted across the control channel can be replaced by a malicious attacker. The controller is allowed to implement any arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Cheng-Zong Bai , Fabio Pasqualetti , Vijay Gupta

Cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures, such as water treatment facilities, represent significant threats to public health, safety, and the environment. This paper introduces a systematic approach for modeling and assessing covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Victor Mattos , João Henrique Schmidt , Amit Bhaya , Alan Oliveira de Sá , Daniel Sadoc Menasché , Gaurav Srivastava