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A resilient distributed algorithm is proposed to solve the distributed resource allocation problem of a first-order nonlinear multi-agent system who is subject to false data injection (FDI) attacks. An intelligent attacker injects false…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xin Cai , Xinyuan Nan , Binpeng Gao

This paper addresses the challenge of amplitude-unbounded false data injection (FDI) attacks targeting the sensor-to-controller (S-C) channel in cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We introduce a resilient tube-based model predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Yuzhou Xiao , Senchun Chai , Li Dai , Yuanqing Xia , Runqi Chai

Adversarial attacks on stochastic bandits have traditionally relied on some unrealistic assumptions, such as per-round reward manipulation and unbounded perturbations, limiting their relevance to real-world systems. We propose a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Qirun Zeng , Eric He , Richard Hoffmann , Xuchuang Wang , Jinhang Zuo

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

Training and evaluating false data injection attack (FDIA) detectors for power systems is constrained by data scarcity. Operational grid measurements are commercially sensitive, and hand-crafted attacks fail to capture complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Mohammad A. Razzaque , Muta Tah Hira

Accurate and reliable dynamic state quantities of generators are very important for real-time monitoring and control of the power system. The emergence of cyber attacks has brought new challenges to the state estimation of generators.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Yang Li , Zhi Li , Liang Chen , Guoqing Li

In this paper a novel approach to co-design controller and attack detector for nonlinear cyber-physical systems affected by false data injection (FDI) attack is proposed. We augment the model predictive controller with an additional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Fabrizio Dabbene , Roland Bouffanais

One salient feature of cooperative formation tracking is its distributed nature that relies on localized control and information sharing over a sparse communication network. That is, a distributed control manner could be prone to malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Zhi Feng , Guoqiang Hu

As water distribution networks (WDNs) become increasingly connected with digital infrastructures, they face greater exposure to cyberattacks that threaten their operational integrity. Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks (SFDIAs) are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Abdallah Alalem Albustami , Ahmad F. Taha

Most traditional false data injection attack (FDIA) detection approaches rely on a key assumption, i.e., the power system can be accurately modeled. However, the transmission line parameters are dynamic and cannot be accurately known during…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Bowen Xu , Fanghong Guo , Changyun Wen , Ruilong Deng , Wen-An Zhang

Cyber-physical system (CPS) is the foundational backbone of modern critical infrastructures, so ensuring its security and resilience against cyber-attacks is of pivotal importance. This paper addresses the challenge of designing anomaly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Yulin Feng , Dapeng Lan , Chao Shang

False data injection attacks (FDIAs) pose a significant security threat to power system state estimation. To detect such attacks, recent studies have proposed machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly deep neural networks (DNNs).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jiangnan Li , Yingyuan Yang , Jinyuan Stella Sun , Kevin Tomsovic , Hairong Qi

This paper outlines a cyber-physical authentication strategy to protect power system infrastructure against false data injection (FDI) attacks. We demonstrate that it is feasible to use small, low-cost, yet highly attack-resistant security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Martin Higgins , Keith Mayes , Fei Teng

With the increasing integration of cyber-physical systems (CPS) into critical applications, ensuring their resilience against cyberattacks is paramount. A particularly concerning threat is the vulnerability of CPS to deceptive attacks that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jun Ueda , Hyukbin Kwon

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) heavily relies on the coverage of pre-collected data over the target policy's distribution. Existing studies aim to improve data-policy coverage to mitigate distributional shifts, but overlook security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xue Zhou , Dapeng Man , Chen Xu , Fanyi Zeng , Tao Liu , Huan Wang , Shucheng He , Chaoyang Gao , Wu Yang

The security of energy supply in a power grid critically depends on the ability to accurately estimate the state of the system. However, manipulated power flow measurements can potentially hide overloads and bypass the bad data detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Chenguang Wang , Kaikai Pan , Simon Tindemans , Peter Palensky

Deep neural networks (NNs) for computer vision are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., miniscule malicious changes to inputs may induce unintuitive outputs. One key approach to verify and mitigate such robustness issues is to falsify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Raik Dankworth , Gesina Schwalbe

With the proliferation of smart devices and revolutions in communications, electrical distribution systems are gradually shifting from passive, manually-operated and inflexible ones, to a massively interconnected cyber-physical smart grid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Current backdoor defense methods are evaluated against a single attack at a time. This is unrealistic, as powerful machine learning systems are trained on large datasets scraped from the internet, which may be attacked multiple times by one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Neel Alex , Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Amartya Sanyal , David Krueger

Attacks on Federated Learning (FL) can severely reduce the quality of the generated models and limit the usefulness of this emerging learning paradigm that enables on-premise decentralized learning. However, existing untargeted attacks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiyue Huang , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Stefanie Roos