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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

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, 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

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

In this work, we propose and develop a new discrete-event based actuator attack model on the closed-loop system formed by the plant and the supervisor. We assume the actuator attacker partially observes the execution of the closed-loop…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Liyong Lin , Sander Thuijsman , Yuting Zhu , Simon Ware , Rong Su , Michel Reniers

The problem of state estimation in the setting of partially-observed discrete event systems subject to cyber attacks is considered. An operator observes a plant through a natural projection that hides the occurrence of certain events. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Qi Zhang , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

One of the major challenges about cyber physical systems is how to prevent cyber attacks to ensure system integrity. There has been a large number of different types of attacks discussed in the modern control and computer science…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Rong Su

The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Nathaniel Smith , Yu Wang

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

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

Resilience to sensor and actuator attacks is a major concern in the supervisory control of discrete events in cyber-physical systems (CPS). In this work, we propose a new framework to design supervisors for CPS under attacks using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yu Wang , Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Nathan Smith , Miroslav Pajic

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 paper investigates the problem of synthesizing sensor deception attackers against privacy in the context of supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES). We consider a DES plant controlled by a supervisor, which is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jingshi Yao , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

An analytical approach for a dynamic cyber-security problem that captures progressive attacks to a computer network is presented. We formulate the dynamic security problem from the defender's point of view as a supervisory control problem…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Mohammad Rasouli , Erik Miehling , Demosthenis Teneketzis

We investigate deterministic and nonblocking supervisory control of discrete event systems under cyber-attacks using the ALTER (Attack Language for Transition-basEd Replacement) model. While prior works consider supervisory control that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Feng Lin , Caisheng Wang , Jun Chen , Xiang Yin

Cyber attacks are unavoidable in networked discrete event systems where the plant and the supervisor communicate with each other via networks. Because of the nondeterminism in observation and control caused by cyber attacks, the language…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Xiaojun Wang , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

We investigate the enforcement of opacity in discrete-event systems via supervisory control. A system is said to be opaque if a passive intruder can never unambiguously infer whether the system is in a secret state through its observations.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Ziyue Ma , Alessandro Giua , Xiang Yin

We study the security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the context of the supervisory control layer. Specifically, we propose a general model of a CPS attacker in the framework of discrete event systems and investigate the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Romulo Meira-Goes , Eunsuk Kang , Raymond H. Kwong , Stephane Lafortune

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as autonomous vehicles crossing an intersection, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks and their safety-critical nature makes them a target for malicious adversaries. This paper studies the problem of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Amin Ghafouri , Xenofon D. Koutsoukos

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
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