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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

The state estimation of continuous-time nonlinear systems in which a subset of sensor outputs can be maliciously controlled through injecting a potentially unbounded additive signal is considered in this paper. Analogous to our earlier work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Michelle S. Chong , Henrik Sandberg , Joao P. Hespanha

In this article, we establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for remote estimation in a networked system composed of a source that is observed by a sensor, a remote monitor that needs to estimate the state of the source in real time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

As more attention is paid to security in the context of control systems and as attacks occur to real control systems throughout the world, it has become clear that some of the most nefarious attacks are those that evade detection. The term…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Justin Ruths , Dragan Nesic

The paper considers a problem of detecting and mitigating biasing attacks on networks of state observers targeting cooperative state estimation algorithms. The problem is cast within the recently developed framework of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Mohammad Deghat , Valery Ugrinovskii , Iman Shames , Cedric Langbort

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

Good robust estimators can be tuned to combine a high breakdown point and a specified asymptotic efficiency at a central model. This happens in regression with MM- and tau-estimators among others. However, the finite-sample efficiency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Ricardo Maronna , Víctor Yohai

We address the problem of attack detection and attack correction for multi-output discrete-time linear time-invariant systems under sensor attack. More specifically, we focus on the situation where adversarial attack signals are added to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-16 Zhanghan Tang , Margreta Kuijper , Michelle Chong , Iven Mareels , Chris Leckie

We study the problem of remote state estimation, in the presence of an eavesdropper. An authorized user estimates the state of a linear plant, based on the data received from a sensor, while the data may also be intercepted by the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Anastasios Tsiamis , Konstantinos Gatsis , George J. Pappas

The deepening penetration of renewable resources into power systems entails great difficulties that have not been surmounted satisfactorily. An issue that merits special attention is the short-term planning of power systems under net load…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Ogun Yurdakul , Fikret Sivrikaya , Sahin Albayrak

New methods that exploit sparse structures arising in smart grid networks are proposed for the state estimation problem when data injection attacks are present. First, construction strategies for unobservable sparse data injection attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Mete Ozay , Inaki Esnaola , Fatos T. Yarman Vural , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

Estimating the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between random variables is a fundamental problem in statistical analysis. For continuous random variables, traditional information-theoretic estimators scale poorly with dimension and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mikil Foss , Andrew Lamperski

This paper focuses on securely estimating the state of a nonlinear dynamical system from a set of corrupted measurements. In particular, we consider two broad classes of nonlinear systems, and propose a technique which enables us to perform…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Qie Hu , Dariush Fooladivanda , Young Hwan Chang , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper, we consider the problem of attack-resilient state estimation, that is to reliably estimate the true system states despite two classes of attacks: (i) attacks on the switching mechanisms and (ii) false data injection attacks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sze Zheng Yong , Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

This paper considers the problem of remote state estimation for Markov jump linear systems in the presence of uncertainty in the posterior mode probabilities. Such uncertainty may arise when the estimator receives noisy or incomplete…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Ioannis Tzortzis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Charalambos D. Charalambous

We develop and study new adversarial perturbations that enable an attacker to gain control over decisions in generic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems including deep learning neural networks. In contrast to adversarial data modification,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ivan Y. Tyukin , Desmond J. Higham , Alexander Bastounis , Eliyas Woldegeorgis , Alexander N. Gorban

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

This paper considers a sensor attack and fault detection problem for linear cyber-physical systems, which are subject to system noise that can obey an unknown light-tailed distribution. We propose a new threshold-based detection mechanism…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dan Li , Sonia Martínez

In this paper, we study the design of an optimal transmission policy for remote state estimation over packet-dropping wireless channels with imperfect channel state information. A smart sensor uses a Kalman filter to estimate the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Ioannis Tzortzis , Evagoras Makridis , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper investigates the vulnerability of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems to stealthy sensor attacks during the learning phase. In particular, we demonstrate that a {data-driven} adversary, without access to the system model,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Sribalaji C. Anand