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As the number of connected IoT devices continues to grow, securing these systems against cyber threats remains a major challenge, especially in environments with limited computational and energy resources. This paper presents an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Saeid Jamshidi , Amin Nikanjam , Negar Shahabi , Kawser Wazed Nafi , Foutse Khomh , Samira Keivanpour , Rolando Herrero

We investigate a linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) tracking problem with safety and reachability constraints in the presence of an adversary who mounts an FDI attack on an unknown set of sensors. For each possible set of compromised sensors,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Zhouchi Li , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark

In this work, we address the problem of synthesis of covert attackers in the setup where the model of the plant is available, but the model of the supervisor is unknown, to the adversary. To compensate the lack of knowledge on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Liyong Lin , Ruochen Tai , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

This article introduces an anomaly detection based algorithm (AD-CPS) to detect false data injection attacks that fall under the category of data deception/integrity attacks, but with arbitrary information structure, in cyber-physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Souvik Das , Avishek Ghosh , Debasish Chatterjee

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate sensing, communication, computation, and control to support critical infrastructure, including smart grids, industrial automation, and control systems. In the electrical utility domain, various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Abile Jean , Kuniyilh S

The vast majority of today's critical infrastructure is supported by numerous feedback control loops and an attack on these control loops can have disastrous consequences. This is a major concern since modern control systems are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Hamza Fawzi , Paulo Tabuada , Suhas Diggavi

Physical attacks form one of the most severe threats against secure computing platforms. Their criticality arises from their corresponding threat model: By, e.g., passively measuring an integrated circuit's (IC's) environment during a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xhani Marvin Saß , Thilo Krachenfels , Frederik Dermot Pustelnik , Jean-Pierre Seifert , Christian Große , Frank Altmann

Increased connectivity and remote reprogrammability/reconfigurability features of embedded devices in current-day power systems (including interconnections between information technology -- IT -- and operational technology -- OT --…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ali Rasteh , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

In this paper, we investigate the covert sensor attack synthesis problem in the framework of supervisory control of networked discrete-event systems (DES), where the observation channel and the control channel are assumed to be non-FIFO and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

The goal of an Intrusion Detection is inadequate to detect errors and unusual activity on a network or on the hosts belonging to a local network by monitoring network activity. Algorithms for building detection models are broadly classified…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-10-28 M. Sadiq Ali Khan

Sequential attack detection in a distributed estimation system is considered, where each sensor successively produces one-bit quantized samples of a desired deterministic scalar parameter corrupted by additive noise. The unknown parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang

We consider partially-specified optimization problems where the goal is to actively, but efficiently, acquire missing information about the problem in order to solve it. An algorithm designer wishes to solve a linear program (LP), $\max…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuran Zheng , Bo Waggoner , Yang Liu , Yiling Chen

This paper presents a secure safety filter design for nonlinear systems under sensor spoofing attacks. Existing approaches primarily focus on linear systems which limits their applications in real-world scenarios. In this work, we extend…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

This paper studies attack-resilient estimation of a class of switched nonlinear systems subject to stochastic noises. The systems are threatened by both of signal attacks and switching attacks. The problem is formulated as the joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Hunmin Kim , Pinyao Guo , Minghui Zhu , Peng Liu

The reachable sets of nonlinear control systems can in general only be numerically approximated, and are often very expensive to calculate. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that tracks only the boundaries of the reachable sets and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Janosch Rieger , Kyria Wawryk

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…

We propose a new algorithm for real-time detection and tracking of elliptic patterns suitable for real-world robotics applications. The method fits ellipses to each contour in the image frame and rejects ellipses that do not yield a good…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Azarakhsh Keipour , Guilherme A. S. Pereira , Sebastian Scherer

An $\varepsilon$-coreset for Least-Mean-Squares (LMS) of a matrix $A\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n\times d}$ is a small weighted subset of its rows that approximates the sum of squared distances from its rows to every affine $k$-dimensional subspace of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Alaa Maalouf , Adiel Statman , Dan Feldman

Reachability analysis, in general, is a fundamental method that supports formally-correct synthesis, robust model predictive control, set-based observers, fault detection, invariant computation, and conformance checking, to name but a few.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Niklas Kochdumper , Bastian Schürmann , Matthias Althoff

As more attention is paid to security in the context of control systems and as attacks occur to real control systems throughout the world, it has become clear that some of the most nefarious attacks are those that evade detection. The term…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Navid Hashemi , Carlos Murguia , Justin Ruths