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We develop a data-driven framework for assessing the resilience of linear time-invariant systems against malicious false-data-injection sensor attacks. Leveraging sparse observability, we propose data-driven resilience metrics and derive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Takumi Shinohara , Karl Henrik Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

With the emergence of cyber-attacks on control systems it has become clear that improving the security of control systems is an important task in today's society. We investigate how an attacker that has access to the measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 David Umsonst , Henrik Sandberg

The advent of smart power grid which plays a vital role in the upcoming smart city era is accompanied with the implementation of a monitoring tool, called state estimation. For the case of the unbalanced residential distribution grid, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nam N. Tran , Hemanshu R. Pota , Quang N. Tran , Jiankun Hu

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

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 considers a cyber-physical system under an active eavesdropping attack. A remote legitimate user estimates the state of a linear plant from the state information received from a sensor. Transmissions from the sensor occur via an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Matthew Crimson , Justin M. Kennedy , Daniel E. Quevedo

A class of data integrity attack, known as false data injection (FDI) attack, has been studied with a considerable amount of work. It has shown that with perfect knowledge of the system model and the capability to manipulate a certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Kaikai Pan , André Teixeira , Milos Cvetkovic , Peter Palensky

This paper considers the problem of detector tuning against false data injection attacks. In particular, we consider an adversary injecting false sensor data to maximize the state deviation of the plant, referred to as impact, whilst being…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Sribalaji C. Anand , Kamil Hassan , Henrik Sandberg

Data attacks on meter measurements in the power grid can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a new data attack model where an adversary produces changes in state estimation despite failing bad-data detection checks. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

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

We study how to secure distributed filters for linear time-invariant systems with bounded noise under false-data injection attacks. A malicious attacker is able to arbitrarily manipulate the observations for a time-varying and unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Xingkang He , Xiaoqiang Ren , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Data attacks on state estimation modify part of system measurements such that the tempered measurements cause incorrect system state estimates. Attack techniques proposed in the literature often require detailed knowledge of system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jinsub Kim , Lang Tong , Robert J. Thomas

Security issue of distributed state estimation (DSE) is an important prospect for the rapidly growing smart grid ecosystem. Any coordinated cyberattack targeting the distributed system of state estimators can cause unrestrained estimation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Haftu Tasew Reda , Abdun Mahmood , Adnan Anwar , Naveen Chilamkurti

The false data injection (FDI) attack cannot be detected by the traditional anomaly detection techniques used in the energy system state estimators. In this paper, we demonstrate how FDI attacks can be constructed blindly, i.e., without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Adnan Anwar , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mark Pickering

This paper studies multi-agent distributed estimation under sensor attacks. Individual agents make sensor measurements of an unknown parameter belonging to a compact set, and, at every time step, a fraction of the agents' sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Motivated by the need for real-time health monitoring of power distribution grids, we propose a secure state estimator design for continuous time Lur'e type systems with non-uniformly and synchronously sampled outputs which have potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Julian Gootzen , Michelle S. Chong

Accurate local state measurement is important to ensure the reliable operation of distributed multi-agent systems (MAS). Existing fault-tolerant control strategies generally assume the sensor faults to be bounded and uncorrelated. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Shan Zuo , Yi Zhang , Yichao Wang

This paper considers the problem of set-based state estimation for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems under time-varying sensor attacks. Provided that the LTI system is stable and observable via every single sensor and that at least one…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Amr Alanwar , Michelle S. Chong , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this paper a new class of cyber attacks against state estimation in the electric power grid is considered. This class of attacks is named false data injection attacks. We show that with the knowledge of the system configuration an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Muneer Mohammad

We consider the problem of robust estimation in the presence of integrity attacks. There are m sensors monitoring the state and p of them are under attack. The malicious measurements collected by the compromised sensors can be manipulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Duo Han , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie