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This paper addresses the emulation-based observer design for networked control systems (NCS) with linear plants that operate at two time scales in the presence of measurement noise. The system is formulated as a hybrid singularly perturbed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Weixuan Wang , Alejandro I. Maass , Dragan Nešić , Ying Tan , Romain Postoyan , W. P. M. H. Heemels

We consider a security problem for interconnected systems governed by linear, discrete, time-invariant, stochastic dynamics, where the objective is to detect exogenous attacks by processing the measurements at different locations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Rajasekhar Anguluri , Vaibhav Katewa , Fabio Pasqualetti

In an Industrial Control System (ICS), its complex network of sensors, actuators and controllers have raised security concerns for critical infrastructures and industrial production units. This opinion paper strives to initiate discussion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Jay Prakash , Jianying Zhou

In this paper, we present the concept of boosting the resiliency of optimization-based observers for cyber-physical systems (CPS) using auxiliary sources of information. Due to the tight coupling of physics, communication and computation, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Charalambos Konstantinou , Carlos A. Wong , Satish Vedula

This paper introduces a Distributed Unknown Input Observer (D-UIO) design methodology that uses a technique called node-wise detectability decomposition to estimate the state of a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system in a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Franco Angelo Torchiaro , Gianfranco Gagliardi , Francesco Tedesco , Alessandro Casavola

This paper develops a glocal (global-local) attack detection framework to detect stealthy cyber-physical attacks, namely covert attack and zero-dynamics attack, against a class of multi-agent control systems seeking average consensus. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

This paper proposes a novel distributed interval observer design for linear time-invariant (LTI) discrete-time systems subject to bounded disturbances. In the proposed observer algorithm, each agent in a networked group exchanges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Mohammad Khajenejad , Scott Brown , Sonia Martinez

We consider the problem of estimating the state of a noisy linear dynamical system when an unknown subset of sensors is arbitrarily corrupted by an adversary. We propose a secure state estimation algorithm, and derive (optimal) bounds on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shaunak Mishra , Yasser Shoukry , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

In this paper, we propose a fault detection and isolation based attack-aware multi-sensor integration algorithm for the detection of cyberattacks in autonomous vehicle navigation systems. The proposed algorithm uses an extended Kalman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Sangjun Lee , Yongbum Cho , Byung-Cheol Min

This work presents a rigorous analysis of the adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks on discrete-time distributed multi-agent systems, and propose a mitigation approach for attacks on sensors and actuators. First, we show how an attack…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Aquib Mustafa , Hamidreza Modares

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 presents novel polytopic and interval observer designs for uncertain linear continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) systems subjected to bounded disturbances and noise. Our approach guarantees enclosure of the true state and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Feiya Zhu , Tarun Pati , Sze Zheng Yong

This paper studies distributed adaptive estimation over sensor networks with partially unknown source dynamics. We present parallel continuous-time and discrete-time designs in which each node runs a local adaptive observer and exchanges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Moh Kamalul Wafi , Hamidreza Montazeri Hedesh , Milad Siami

This work addresses the design of a robust hybrid observer for discrete-time switched linear systems subject to unknown inputs and modeling errors. The observer herein proposed is synthesized, for the case when the active mode is unknown…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Djamel Belkhiat , Nadhir Messai , Noureddine Manamanni

Modern advances in sensor, computing, and communication technologies enable various smart grid applications. The heavy dependence on communication technology has highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to false data injection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Xiangyu Niu Jiangnan Li , Jinyuan Sun

We consider a sensor network focused on target localization, where sensors measure the signal strength emitted from the target. Each measurement is quantized to one bit and sent to the fusion center. A general attack is considered at some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Rick S. Blum , Lance M. Kaplan

The paper considers a problem of detecting and mitigating biasing attacks on networks of state observers targeting cooperative state estimation algorithms. The problem is cast within the recently developed framework of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Mohammad Deghat , Valery Ugrinovskii , Iman Shames , Cedric Langbort

Recent studies have shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to specifically crafted adversarial inputs that are quasi-imperceptible to humans. In this letter, we propose a novel method to detect adversarial inputs, by augmenting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kirthi Shankar Sivamani , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

The security of control systems under sensor attacks is investigated. Redundant observability is introduced, explaining existing security notions including the security index, attack detectability, and observability under attacks.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Chanhwa Lee , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun

We propose a methodology to detect and isolate link failures in a weighted and directed network of identical multi-input multi-output LTI systems when only the output responses of a subset of nodes are available. Our method is based on the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Amin Rahimian , Victor M. Preciado