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We introduce the paradigm of adversarial attacks that target the dynamics of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). To facilitate the analysis of such attacks, we present multiple approaches to the modeling of CAS as dynamical, data-driven, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Vahid Behzadan , Arslan Munir

In this paper, we consider a robust action selection problem in multi-agent systems where performance must be guaranteed when the system suffers a worst-case attack on its agents. Specifically, agents are tasked with selecting actions from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jun Liu , Ryan K. Williams

Simulating hostile attacks of physical autonomous systems can be a useful tool to examine their robustness to attack and inform vulnerability-aware design. In this work, we examine this through the lens of multi-robot patrol, by presenting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 James C. Ward , Alex Bott , Connor York , Edmund R. Hunt

Modern smart home control systems utilize real-time occupancy and activity monitoring to ensure control efficiency, occupants' comfort, and optimal energy consumption. Moreover, adopting machine learning-based anomaly detection models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Nur Imtiazul Haque , Maurice Ngouen , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman , Selcuk Uluagac , Laurent Njilla

We propose a mechanism for distributed resource management and interference mitigation in wireless networks using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (RL). We equip each transmitter in the network with a deep RL agent that receives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour

In recent years, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems have increasingly become the target of cyber attacks. SCADAs are no longer isolated, as web-based applications expose strategic infrastructures to the outside world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari , Stefano Longari , Stefano Zanero , Simone Formentin

This paper addresses the problem of decentralized state-tracking in the presence of sensor attacks. We consider a network of nodes where each node has the objective of tracking the state of a linear dynamical system based on its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Yanwen Mao , Paulo Tabuada

In this paper, we introduce a new vulnerability of cyber-physical systems to malicious attack. It arises when the physical plant, that is modeled as a continuous-time LTI system, is controlled by a digital controller. In the sampled-data…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jihan Kim , Gyunghoon Park , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun

Attack-Defence Trees (ADTs) are well-suited to assess possible attacks to systems and the efficiency of counter-measures. In this paper, we first enrich the available constructs with reactive patterns that cover further security scenarios,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Jaime Arias , Carlos E. Budde , Wojciech Penczek , Laure Petrucci , Mariëlle Stoelinga

In this paper, a heterogeneous leader-followers multiagent system is studied under simultaneous time-varying communication faults and actuator faults. First, the state of the leader is modelled as the closed-loop reference model where the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Leyi Zheng , Yimin Zhou

This paper presents a detection algorithm for sensor attacks and a resilient state estimation scheme for a class of uniformly observable nonlinear systems. An adversary is supposed to corrupt a subset of sensors with the possibly unbounded…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Junsoo Kim , Chanhwa Lee , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun , Jin Heon Seo

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative formation control for multi-agent systems with limited resources. We consider a team of robots tasked with achieving a desired formation from an arbitrary initial configuration. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Evangelos Psomiadis , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper proposes a cyber-resilient secure control framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs) subject to false data injection (FDI) threats as actuator attacks. The framework integrates data-driven modeling, event-triggered communication,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yashar Mousavi , Mahsa Tavasoli , Ibrahim Beklan Kucukdemiral , Umit Cali , Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh , Ali Karimoddini , Afef Fekih

Distributed dynamic compensators, also known as distributed observer, play a key role in the output consensus problem of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems. However, most existing distributed dynamic compensators require either the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Guangqi Li , Long Wang

We consider the distributed $H_\infty$ estimation problem with additional requirement of resilience to biasing attacks. An attack scenario is considered where an adversary misappropriates some of the observer nodes and injects biasing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-27 V. Ugrinovskii

Existing data-driven control methods generally do not address False Data Injection (FDI) and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks simultaneously. This letter introduces a distributed data-driven attack-resilient consensus problem under both FDI…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yi Zhang , Bin Lei , Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Caiwen Ding , Shan Zuo

This paper studies the synthesis of control policies for heterogeneous and interconnected multi-agent systems that collaborate through data exchange over a communication network to minimize a collective cost. We propose a distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Mohammadreza Barzegaran , Kemeng Han , Hamid Jafarkhani

Neural networks are increasingly used for intrusion detection on industrial control systems (ICS). With neural networks being vulnerable to adversarial examples, attackers who wish to cause damage to an ICS can attempt to hide their attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Giulio Zizzo , Chris Hankin , Sergio Maffeis , Kevin Jones

Recently, reconstruction-based anomaly detection was proposed as an effective technique to detect attacks in dynamic industrial control networks. Unlike classical network anomaly detectors that observe the network traffic,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alessandro Erba , Riccardo Taormina , Stefano Galelli , Marcello Pogliani , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

We address the problem of state estimation and attack isolation for general discrete-time nonlinear systems when sensors are corrupted by (potentially unbounded) attack signals. For a large class of nonlinear plants and observers, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic