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The extensive use of distributed vehicle platoon controllers has resulted in several benefits for transportation systems, such as increased traffic flow, fuel efficiency, and decreased pollution. The rising reliance on interconnected…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Tashfique Hasnine Choudhury

Anomaly detection plays a vital role in the security and safety of cyber-physical control systems, and accurately distinguishing between different anomaly types is crucial for system recovery and mitigation. This study proposes a dual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Xixing Xue , Dong Shen , Steven X. Ding , Dong Zhao

We address the problem of estimating the state of a differentially flat system from measurements that may be corrupted by an adversarial attack. In cyber-physical systems, malicious attacks can directly compromise the system's sensors or…

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

As cyber-physical systems (CPSs) become more dependent on data and communication networks, their vulnerability to false data injection (FDI) attacks has raised significant concerns. Among these, stealthy attacks, those that evade…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Mischa Huisman , Erjen Lefeber , Nathan van de Wouw , Carlos Murguia

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

Digital control has become increasingly prevalent in modern systems, making continuous-time plants controlled by discrete-time (digital) controllers ubiquitous and crucial across industries, including aerospace, automotive, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Taoran Wu , Dejin Ren , Shuyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Bai Xue

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

In this paper, we consider the problem of attack-resilient state estimation, that is to reliably estimate the true system states despite two classes of attacks: (i) attacks on the switching mechanisms and (ii) false data injection attacks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sze Zheng Yong , Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

This article considers the design and analysis of multiple moving target defenses for recognizing and isolating attacks on cyber-physical systems. We consider attackers who perform integrity attacks on a set of sensors and actuators in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Paul Griffioen , Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

Recent years have witnessed a rise in the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks targeted at critical infrastructure systems. This study designs a versatile, data-driven cyberattack detection platform for infrastructure systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Sarin E. Chandy , Amin Rasekh , Zachary A. Barker , M. Ehsan Shafiee

This paper examines the properties of output-redundant systems, that is, systems possessing a larger number of outputs than inputs, through the lenses of the geometric approach of Wonham et al. We begin by formulating a simple output…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Guitao Yang , Alexander J. Gallo , Angelo Barboni , Riccardo M. G. Ferrari , Andrea Serrani , Thomas Parisini

Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xubin Fang , Rick S. Blum , Ramesh Bharadwaj , Brian M. Sadler

This paper analyzes stealthy attacks, particularly the zero-dynamics attack (ZDA) in networked control systems. ZDA hides the attack signal in the null-space of the state-space representation of the control system and hence it cannot be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Yanbing Mao , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani , Pan Zhao , Emrah Akyol , Naira Hovakimyan

Future power networks will be characterized by safe and reliable functionality against physical malfunctions and cyber attacks. This paper proposes a unified framework and advanced monitoring procedures to detect and identify network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-16 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator and sensor false data injection attacks. Using a bank of unknown input…

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

This paper quantifies the security of uncertain interconnected systems under stealthy data injection attacks. In particular, we consider a large-scale system composed of a certain subsystem interconnected with an uncertain subsystem, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

SCADA protocols for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are vulnerable to network attacks such as session hijacking. Hence, research focuses on network anomaly detection based on meta--data (message sizes, timing, command sequence), or on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Amit Kleinmann , Ori Amichay , Avishai Wool , David Tenenbaum , Ofer Bar , Leonid Lev

We study the problem of detecting an attack on a stochastic cyber-physical system. We aim to treat the problem in its most general form. We start by introducing the notion of asymptotically detectable attacks, as those attacks introducing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Damián Marelli , Tianju Sui , Minyue Fu , Renquan Lu

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) rely on insecure protocols and devices to monitor and operate critical infrastructure. Prior work has demonstrated that powerful attackers with detailed system knowledge can manipulate exchanged sensor data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Herson Esquivel-Vargas , John Henry Castellanos , Marco Caselli , Nils Ole Tippenhauer , Andreas Peter