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Distributionally robust control (DRC) aims to effectively manage distributional ambiguity in stochastic systems. While most existing works address inaccurate distributional information in fully observable settings, we consider a partially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

We propose a new defense mechanism against undetected infiltration into controllers in cyber-physical systems. To this end, we cautiously design the outputs of the sensors that monitor the state of the system. Different from the defense…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Başar

Quantum key distribution algorithms are considered secure because they leverage quantum phenomena to provide security. As such, eavesdroppers can be detected by analyzing the error rate in the shared key obtained by the parties performing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Christopher Dunne

Cyber-physical systems can be subject to sensor attacks, e.g., sensor spoofing, leading to unsafe behaviors. This paper addresses this problem in the context of linear systems when an omniscient attacker can spoof several system sensors at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

This paper investigates bounds on the estimation error of a linear system affected by norm-bounded disturbances and full sensor attacks. The system is equipped with a detector that evaluates the norm of the innovation signal to detect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Axel Stafström , Daniel Arnström , Adam Miksits , David Umsonst

This paper considers the secure state estimation problem for noisy systems in the presence of sparse sensor integrity attacks. We show a fundamental limitation: that is, 2r-detectability is necessary for achieving bounded estimation errors,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Yorie Nakahira , Yilin Mo

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malicious attacks so that specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

Anomaly detection (AD) has garnered ample attention in security research, as such algorithms complement existing signature-based methods but promise detection of never-before-seen attacks. Cyber operations manage a high volume of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Robert A. Bridges , Jessie D. Jamieson , Joel W. Reed

This paper focuses on the performance and the robustness analysis of stochastic jump linear systems. The state trajectory under stochastic jump process becomes random variables, which brings forth the probability distributions in the system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Kooktae Lee , Abhishek Halder , Raktim Bhattacharya

Herein, design of false data injection attack on a distributed cyber-physical system is considered. A stochastic process with linear dynamics and Gaussian noise is measured by multiple agent nodes, each equipped with multiple sensors. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Moulik Choraria , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra , Erik Strom

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks (AA). For an image recognition task, this means that a small perturbation of the original can result in the image being misclassified. Design of such attacks as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xingjian Bai , Guangyi He , Yifan Jiang , Jan Obloj

We study nonparametric density estimation problems where error is measured in the Wasserstein distance, a metric on probability distributions popular in many areas of statistics and machine learning. We give the first minimax-optimal rates…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Jonathan Niles-Weed , Quentin Berthet

This paper addresses the problem of distributed resilient state estimation and control for linear time-invariant systems in the presence of malicious false data injection sensor attacks and bounded noise. We consider a system operator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Takumi Shinohara , Karl H. Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy sensor attacks. We start by defining the notion of stealthy attacks in the most general form by leveraging Neyman-Pearson lemma;…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

Fault detection is crucial to ensure the reliability of navigation systems. However, mainstream fault detection methods are developed based on Gaussian assumptions on nominal errors, while current attempts at non-Gaussian fault detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Penggao Yan , Baoshan Song , Xiao Xia , Weisong Wen , Li-Ta Hsu

We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Washington Mio , Tom Needham

In recent years fingerprinting of various physical and logical devices has been proposed with the goal of uniquely identifying users or devices of mainstream IT systems such as PCs, Laptops and smart phones. On the other hand, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Aditya Mathur , Martin Ochoa

Noise is an important factor that influences the reliability of information acquisition, transmission, processing, and storage. In order to suppress the inevitable noise effects, a fault-tolerant information processing approach via quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Qi Song , Hongjing Li , Chengxi Yu , Jingzheng Huang , Ding Wang , Peng Huang , Guihua Zeng

We consider a data-driven robust hypothesis test where the optimal test will minimize the worst-case performance regarding distributions that are close to the empirical distributions with respect to the Wasserstein distance. This leads to a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Liyan Xie , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

With the rapid development of online payment platforms, it is now possible to record massive transaction data. Clustering on transaction data significantly contributes to analyzing merchants' behavior patterns. This enables payment…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-17 Yingqiu Zhu , Danyang Huang , Bo Zhang