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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

In this paper, we investigate the covert sensor attack synthesis problem in the framework of supervisory control of networked discrete-event systems (DES), where the observation channel and the control channel are assumed to be non-FIFO and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

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

This paper investigates the problem of co-synthesis of edit function and supervisor for opacity enforcement in the supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES), assuming the presence of an external (passive) intruder, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In this work, we investigate the problem of privacy-preserving supervisory control against an external passive intruder via co-synthesis of dynamic mask, edit function, and supervisor for opacity enforcement and requirement satisfaction. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

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 focuses on the problem of cyber attacks for discrete event systems under supervisory control. In more detail, the goal of the supervisor, who has a partial observation of the system evolution, is that of preventing the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Qi Zhang , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

In this work, we investigate the problem of synthesizing property-enforcing supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems (DES). Unlike most existing approaches, where the enforced property depends solely on the executed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Bohan Cui , Yu Chen , Alessandro Giua , Xiang Yin

In this paper, we investigate both qualitative and quantitative synthesis of optimal privacy-enforcing supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems. We consider a dynamic system whose information-flow is partially available to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Yifan Xie , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

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

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesis of maximally permissive covert damage-reachable attackers in the setup where the model of the supervisor is unknown to the adversary but the adversary has recorded a (prefix-closed) finite…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

Cybersecurity of discrete event systems (DES) has been gaining more and more attention recently, due to its high relevance to the so-called 4th industrial revolution that heavily relies on data communication among networked systems. One key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Rong Su

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

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 the context of networked discrete-event systems (DESs), communication delays and losses exist between the plant and the supervisor for observation and between the supervisor and the actuator for control. In this paper, we first introduce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Yunfeng Hou , Yunfeng Ji , Gang Wang , Ching-Yen Weng , Qingdu Li

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
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