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The vast majority of today's critical infrastructure is supported by numerous feedback control loops and an attack on these control loops can have disastrous consequences. This is a major concern since modern control systems are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Hamza Fawzi , Paulo Tabuada , Suhas Diggavi

Fast and reliable state estimation and tracking are essential for real-time situation awareness in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) operating in tactical environments or complicated civilian environments. Traditional centralized solutions do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Connor Mclaughlin , Matthew Ding , Deniz Erdogmus , Lili Su

In decentralized optimization over networks, each node in the network has a portion of the global objective function and the aim is to collectively optimize this function. Gradient tracking methods have emerged as a popular alternative for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Shagun Gupta

This paper considers a leader-following problem for a group of heterogeneous linear time invariant (LTI) followers that are interacting over a directed acyclic graph. Only a subset of the followers has access to the state of the leader in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yi-Fan Chung , Solmaz S. Kia

In this paper, a distributed tracking control scheme with distributed estimators has been developed for a leader-follower multi-agent system with measurement noises and directed interconnection topology. It is supposed that each follower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Jiangping Hu , Gang Feng

Broadcast control is one of decentralized control methods for networked multi-agent systems. In this method, each agent does not communicate with the others, and autonomously determines its own action using only the same signal sent from a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yasushi Amano , Tomohiko Jimbo , Kenji Fujimoto

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

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

It poses technical difficulty to achieve stable tracking even for single mismatched nonlinear strict-feedback systems when intermittent state feedback is utilized. The underlying problem becomes even more complicated if such systems are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Libei Sun , Xiucai Huang , Yongduan Song

This paper presents a scalable Bayesian technique for decentralized state estimation from multiple platforms in dynamic environments. As has long been recognized, centralized architectures impose severe scaling limitations for distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Matthew Rosencrantz , Geoffrey Gordon , Sebastian Thrun

We consider a strategic network monitoring problem involving the operator of a networked system and an attacker. The operator aims to randomize the placement of multiple protected sensors to monitor and protect components that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Jezdimir Milosevic , Mathieu Dahan , Saurabh Amin , Henrik Sandberg

Smart grid is a large complex network with a myriad of vulnerabilities, usually operated in adversarial settings and regulated based on estimated system states. In this study, we propose a novel highly secure distributed dynamic state…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Mehmet Necip Kurt , Yasin Yilmaz , Xiaodong Wang

Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xubin Fang , Rick S. Blum , Ramesh Bharadwaj , Brian M. Sadler

This paper addresses the secure state estimation problem for continuous linear time-invariant systems with non-periodic and asynchronous sampled measurements, where the sensors need to transmit not only measurements but also sampling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zishuo Li , Anh Tung Nguyen , André M. H. Teixeira , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

We study the self-triggered stabilization of discrete-time linear systems with quantized state measurements. In the networked control system we consider, sensors may be spatially distributed and be connected to a self-triggering mechanism…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Masashi Wakaiki

This paper studies the problem of secure state estimation of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system with bounded noise in the presence of sparse attacks on an unknown, time-varying set of sensors. In other words, at each time, the attacker…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Zishuo Li , Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Changxin Liu , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

This paper considers the problem of decentralized analysis and control synthesis to verify and ensure properties like stability and dissipativity of a large-scale networked system comprised of linear subsystems interconnected in an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Shirantha Welikala , Hai Lin , Panos Antsaklis

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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 paper, we present a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for dynamically decoupled systems which are subject to state constraints, coupling state constraints and input constraints. In the proposed control scheme,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-17 Adrian Wiltz , Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas