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Stealthy attacks on Industrial Control Systems can cause significant damage while evading detection. In this paper, instead of focusing on the detection of stealthy attacks, we aim to provide early warnings to operators, in order to avoid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Mazen Azzam , Liliana Pasquale , Gregory Provan , Bashar Nuseibeh

We study how to design a secure observer-based distributed controller such that a group of vehicles can achieve accurate state estimates and formation control even if the measurements of a subset of vehicle sensors are compromised by a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-03 Xingkang He , Ehsan Hashemi , Karl H. Johansson

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

As Industry 4.0 and digitalization continue to advance, the reliance on information technology increases, making the world more vulnerable to cyber-attacks, especially cyber-physical attacks that can manipulate physical systems and…

Applications · Statistics 2023-04-18 Ahmad Kokhahi , Dan Li

A novel private communication framework is proposed where privacy is induced by transmitting over a channel instances of linear inverse problems that are identifiable to the legitimate receiver but unidentifiable to an eavesdropper. The gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we investigate the distributed optimal control problem for a kind of nonlinear multi-agent systems. In particular,both the state and the system dynamic structures of each agent are private and can only be shared among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Ruixue Li , Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Xun Li , Juanjuan Xu

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are gaining prominence due to their advantages in improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing grid resilience. Despite the increasing deployment, the potential of DERs has yet to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Xiang Huo , Hao Huang , Katherine R. Davis , H. Vincent Poor , Mingxi Liu

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

LiDAR systems that rely on classical signals are susceptible to intercept-and-recent spoofing attacks, where a target attempts to avoid detection. To address this vulnerability, we propose a quantum-secured LiDAR protocol that utilizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Dong Wang , Juan-Ying Zhao , Ya-Chao Wang , Liang-Jiang Zhou , Yi-Bo Zhao

This paper introduces a novel distributed consensus-based observer design that enables a group of agents in an undirected communication network to solve the problem of target tracking, where the target is modelled as a chain of integrators…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Marcelo Jacinto , Pedro Trindade , Francisco Rego , Rita Cunha

This paper considers the problem of autonomous multi-agent cooperative target search in an unknown environment using a decentralized framework under a no-communication scenario. The targets are considered as static targets and the agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Titas Bera , Rajarshi Bardhan , Sundaram Suresh

We consider a security problem for interconnected systems governed by linear, discrete, time-invariant, stochastic dynamics, where the objective is to detect exogenous attacks by processing the measurements at different locations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Rajasekhar Anguluri , Vaibhav Katewa , Fabio Pasqualetti

Most of the existing single object trackers track the target in a unitary local search window, making them particularly vulnerable to challenging factors such as heavy occlusions and out-of-view movements. Despite the attempts to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xiao Wang , Zhe Chen , Jin Tang , Bin Luo , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

When used in automated decision-making systems, machine learning (ML) models are vulnerable to data-manipulation attacks. Some defense mechanisms (e.g., adversarial regularization) directly affect the ML models while others (e.g., anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Soyon Choi , Scott Alfeld , Meiyi Ma

Multi-agent systems are prevalent in a wide range of domains including power systems, vehicular networks, and robotics. Two important problems to solve in these types of systems are how the intentions of non-coordinating agents can be…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Benjamin Alcorn , Eman Hammad

Maintaining the security of control systems in the presence of integrity attacks is a significant challenge. In literature, several possible attacks against control systems have been formulated including replay, false data injection, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

High-latency anonymous communication systems prevent passive eavesdroppers from inferring communicating partners with certainty. However, disclosure attacks allow an adversary to recover users' behavioral profiles when communications are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Simon Oya , Carmela Troncoso , Fernando Pérez-González

The paper deals with the problem of distributed fault detection and isolation (FDI) for a group of heterogeneous multi-agent systems. The developed formation for the FDI is taken into account as a distributed observer design methodology,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Thiem V. Pham , Quynh T. T. Nguyen

The design of safe-critical control algorithms for systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on the system output is studied in this work. We aim to address scenarios where attack-mitigation approaches are not feasible, and the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Santiago Jimenez Leudo , Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

This paper proposes a novel distributed interval observer design for linear time-invariant (LTI) discrete-time systems subject to bounded disturbances. In the proposed observer algorithm, each agent in a networked group exchanges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Mohammad Khajenejad , Scott Brown , Sonia Martinez