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This paper considers the state reconstruction problem for discrete-time cyber-physical systems when some of the sensors can be arbitrarily corrupted by malicious attacks where the attacked sensors belong to an unknown set. We first prove…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Wei Liu

Recently, video-based action recognition methods using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve remarkable recognition performance. However, there is still lack of understanding about the generalization mechanism of action recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jaehui Hwang , Huan Zhang , Jun-Ho Choi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jong-Seok Lee

Most of the existing single object trackers track the target in a unitary local search window, making them particularly vulnerable to challenging factors such as heavy occlusions and out-of-view movements. Despite the attempts to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xiao Wang , Zhe Chen , Jin Tang , Bin Luo , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

This article provides a tool for analyzing mechanisms that aim to achieve resilience against stealthy, or undetectable, attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We consider attackers who are able to corrupt all of the inputs and outputs of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Paul Griffioen , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

Developing advanced diagnosis tools to detect cyber attacks is the key to security of power systems. It has been shown that multivariate data injection attacks can bypass bad data detection schemes typically built on static behavior of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Kaikai Pan , Peter Palensky , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Although adverse effects of attacks have been acknowledged in many cyber-physical systems, there is no system-theoretic comprehension of how a compromised agent can leverage communication capabilities to maximize the damage in distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

We study the optimal design of stealthy attacks against partially observed linear control systems. We first propose a novel likelihood-based detection mechanism derived from the innovation process, based on which we quantify stealthiness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Haosheng Zhou , Ruimeng Hu

Multi-robot target tracking finds extensive applications in different scenarios, such as environmental surveillance and wildfire management, which require the robustness of the practical deployment of multi-robot systems in uncertain and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiazhen Liu , Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

This paper studies the security of cyber-physical systems under attacks. Our goal is to design system parameters, such as a set of initial conditions and input bounds so that it is secure by design. To this end, we propose new sufficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

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

In this paper, we introduce a robust sensor design framework to provide "persuasion-based" defense in stochastic control systems against an unknown type attacker with a control objective exclusive to its type. For effective control, such an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Basar

This paper presents a novel robust variable-horizon model predictive control scheme designed to intercept a target moving along a known trajectory, in finite time. Linear discrete-time systems affected by bounded process disturbances are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Renato Quartullo , Gianni Bianchini , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani

Security challenges accompany the efficiency. The pervasive integration of information and communications technologies (ICTs) makes cyber-physical systems vulnerable to targeted attacks that are deceptive, persistent, adaptive and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Linan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

This paper contributes a formal framework for quantitative analysis of bounded sensor attacks on cyber-physical systems, using the formalism of differential dynamic logic. Given a precondition and postcondition of a system, we formalize two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Jian Xiang , Ruggero Lanotte , Simone Tini , Stephen Chong , Massimo Merro

A design framework recently has been developed to stabilize interconnected multiagent systems in a distributed manner, and systematically capture the architectural aspect of cyber-physical systems. Such a control theoretic framework,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Vahid Rezaei , Jafar Haadi Jafarian , Douglas C. Sicker

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

Malicious attacks on modern autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPSs) can leverage information about the system dynamics and noise characteristics to hide while hijacking the system toward undesired states. Given attacks attempting to hide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Paul J. Bonczek , Shijie Gao , Nicola Bezzo

In this paper, we propose a new architecture to enhance the privacy and security of networked control systems against malicious adversaries. We consider an adversary which first learns the system dynamics (privacy) using system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Mohamed Abdalmoaty , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) face growing threats from cyber-attacks that exploit sensor and control vulnerabilities. Digital Twin (DT) technology can detect anomalies via predictive modelling, but current methods cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammadhossein Homaei , Iman Khazrak , Rubén Molano , Andrés Caro , Mar Ávila

Ransomware has remained one of the most notorious threats in the cybersecurity field. Moving Target Defense (MTD) has been proposed as a novel paradigm for proactive defense. Although various approaches leverage MTD, few of them rely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jan von der Assen , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Rinor Sefa , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller