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As multi-agent systems proliferate and share more user data, new approaches are needed to protect sensitive data while still enabling system operation. To address this need, this paper presents a private multi-agent LQ control framework.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Kasra Yazdani , Austin Jones , Kevin Leahy , Matthew Hale

This paper addresses the problem of privacy-preserving consensus control for multi-agent systems (MAS) using differential privacy. We propose a novel distributed finite-horizon linear quadratic regulator (LQR) framework, in which agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yuwen Ma , Yongqiang Wang , Sarah K. Spurgeon , Boli Chen

We present an optimization framework for solving multi-agent nonlinear programs subject to inequality constraints while keeping the agents' state trajectories private. Each agent has an objective function depending only upon its own state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper investigates privacy-preserving distributed cooperative control for multi-agent systems within the framework of differential privacy. In cooperative control, communication noise is inevitable and is usually regarded as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yuwen Ma , Sarah K. Spurgeon , Tao Li , Boli Chen

We present an optimization framework that solves constrained multi-agent optimization problems while keeping each agent's state differentially private. The agents in the network seek to optimize a local objective function in the presence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Matthew Hale , Magnus Egerstedt

Modern cyber physical systems (CPSs) has widely being used in our daily lives because of development of information and communication technologies (ICT).With the provision of CPSs, the security and privacy threats associated to these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Muneeb Ul Hassan , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

For a class of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), we address the problem of performing computations over the cloud without revealing private information about the structure and operation of the system. We model CPSs as a collection of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Carlos Murguia , Paulo Tabuada

We consider cloud-based control scenarios in which clients with local control tasks outsource their computational or physical duties to a cloud service provider. In order to address privacy concerns in such a control architecture, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Takashi Tanaka , Mikael Skoglund , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is expected to be resilient to more than one type of adversary. In this paper, we consider a CPS that has to satisfy a linear temporal logic (LTL) objective in the presence of two kinds of adversaries. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

As multi-agent systems proliferate, there is increasing demand for coordination protocols that protect agents' sensitive information while allowing them to collaborate. To help address this need, this paper presents a differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Calvin Hawkins , Matthew Hale

Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

In this paper, we study a cooperative linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control system with a single user and a server. In this system, the user runs a process and employs the server to meet the needs of computation. However, the user regards…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Wenhao Lin , Yuqing Ni , Wen Yang , Chao Yang

Large-scale monitoring and control systems enabling a more intelligent infrastructure increasingly rely on sensitive data obtained from private agents, e.g., location traces collected from the users of an intelligent transportation system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Kwassi H. Degue , Jerome Le Ny

In this paper, we study the privacy preservation problem in a cooperative networked control system, which has closed-loop dynamics, working for the task of linear quadratic Guassian (LQG) control. The system consists of a user and a server:…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Chao Yang , Yuqing Ni , Wen Yang , Hongbo Shi

Differential privacy is a widely used notion of security that enables the processing of sensitive information. In short, differentially private algorithms map "neighbouring" inputs to close output distributions. Prior work proposed several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

Privacy is an important concern in various multiagent systems in which data collected from the agents are sensitive. We propose a differentially private controller synthesis approach for multi-agent systems subject to high-level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Zhe Xu , Kasra Yazdani , Matthew T. Hale , Ufuk Topcu

Existing quantum computers can only operate with hundreds of qubits in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) state, while quantum distributed computing (QDC) is regarded as a reliable way to address this limitation, allowing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Hui Zhong , Keyi Ju , Jiachen Shen , Xinyue Zhang , Xiaoqi Qin , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu

For systems whose states implicate sensitive information, their privacy is of great concern. While notions like differential privacy have been successfully introduced to dynamical systems, it is still unclear how a system's privacy can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Le Liu , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao
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