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In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing the supremal covert damage-reachable attacker, in the setup where the model of the supervisor is unknown to the adversary but the adversary has recorded a (prefix-closed) finite set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesis of maximally permissive covert damage-reachable attackers in the setup where the model of the supervisor is unknown to the adversary but the adversary has recorded a (prefix-closed) finite…

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

In this paper, we shall formulate and address a problem of covert actuator attacker synthesis for cyber-physical systems that are modelled by discrete-event systems. We assume the actuator attacker partially observes the execution of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

This paper focuses on the problem of cyber attacks for discrete event systems under supervisory control. In more detail, the goal of the supervisor, who has a partial observation of the system evolution, is that of preventing the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Qi Zhang , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

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

In this paper, we propose and address the problem of supervisor obfuscation against actuator enablement attack, in a common setting where the actuator attacker can eavesdrop the control commands issued by the supervisor. We propose a method…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Yuting Zhu , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

This work investigates the problem of synthesizing obfuscated supervisors against covert actuator attackers. For a non-resilient supervisor S, for which there exist some covert actuator attackers that are capable of inflicting damage, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

This work investigates the problem of synthesizing fortified supervisors against covert actuator attackers. For a non-resilient supervisor S, i.e., there exists at least a covert actuator attacker that is capable of inflicting damage w.r.t…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

In this work, we investigate how to make use of model reduction techniques to identify the vulnerability of a closed-loop system, consisting of a plant and a supervisor, that might invite attacks. Here, the system vulnerability refers to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

In this paper, we investigate joint sensor-actuator cyber attacks in discrete event systems. We assume that attackers can attack some sensors and actuators at the same time by altering observations and control commands. Because of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Shengbao Zheng , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

We consider feedback control systems where sensor readings may be compromised by a malicious attacker intending on causing damage to the system. We study this problem at the supervisory layer of the control system, using discrete event…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Rômulo Meira-Góes , Stéphane Lafortune , Hervé Marchand

In this paper, coordination control of discrete event systems under joint sensor and actuator attacks is investigated. Sensor attacks are described by a set of attack languages using a proposed ALTER model. Several local supervisors are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Fei Wang , Jan Komenda , Feng Lin

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

In practice, we can not only disable some events, but also enforce the occurrence of some events prior to the occurrence of other events by external control. In this paper, we combine these two control mechanisms to synthesize a more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Lin Cao , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

We consider a multi-adversary version of the supervisory control problem for discrete-event systems, in which an adversary corrupts the observations available to the supervisor. The supervisor's goal is to enforce a specific language in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Masashi Wakaiki , Paulo Tabuada , Joao P. Hespanha

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

This paper proposes an active attack detection scheme for constrained cyber-physical systems. Despite passive approaches where the detection is based on the analysis of the input-output data, active approaches interact with the system by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing resilient supervisors against combined actuator and sensor attacks, for the subclass of cyber-physical systems that can be modelled as discrete-event systems. We assume that the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Liyong Lin , Rong Su

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

There is an increasing need to study the vulnerability of communication protocols in distributed systems to malicious attacks that attempt to violate properties such as safety or nonblockingness. In this paper, we propose a common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Shoma Matsui , Stéphane Lafortune
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