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When securing complex infrastructures or large environments, constant surveillance of every area is not affordable. To cope with this issue, a common countermeasure is the usage of cheap but wide-ranged sensors, able to detect suspicious…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Nicola Basilico , Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

We pose an active perception problem where an autonomous agent actively interacts with a second agent with potentially adversarial behaviors. Given the uncertainty in the intent of the other agent, the objective is to collect further…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Macheng Shen , Jonathan P How

In this paper, we consider the problem of sequential binary hypothesis test in adversary environment based on observations from s sensors, with the caveat that a subset of c sensors is compromised by an adversary, whose observations can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Zishuo Li , Yilin Mo , Fei Hao

Reachability games are two-player games played on a graph, where the objective of $\texttt{REACH}$ player is to reach the target set whereas the objective of $\texttt{SAFE}$ player is to stay away from the target set. Reachability games…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Mehrdad Karrabi , Maximilian Seeliger , Đorđe Žikelić

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

We consider the problem of security-aware planning in an unknown stochastic environment, in the presence of attacks on control signals (i.e., actuators) of the robot. We model the attacker as an agent who has the full knowledge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Yu Wang , Miroslav Pajic

Reactive synthesis is a class of methods to construct a provably-correct control system, referred to as a robot, with respect to a temporal logic specification in the presence of a dynamic and uncontrollable environment. This is achieved by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

This paper studies a language-based opacity enforcement in a two-player, zero-sum game on a graph. In this game, player 1 (P1) wins if it can achieve a secret temporal goal described by the language of a finite automaton, no matter what…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Chongyang Shi , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Hazhar Rahmani , Jie Fu

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

We lay out a model of games with imperfect information that features explicit communication actions, by which the entire observation history of a player is revealed to another player. Such full-information protocols are common in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Dietmar Berwanger , Laurent Doyen , Thomas Soullard

Abuse of zero-permission sensors on-board mobile and wearable devices to infer users' personal context and information is a well-known privacy threat that has received significant attention. Efforts towards protection mechanisms that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Kavita Kumari , Murtuza Jadliwala , Anindya Maiti , Mohammad Hossein Manshaei

Patrolling is one of the central problems in operational security. Formally, a patrolling problem is specified by a set $U$ of nodes (admissible defender's positions), a set $T \subseteq U$ of vulnerable targets, an admissible defender's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Tomáš Brázdil , Petr Hliněný , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Řehák , Matúš Abaffy

We study the problem of synthesizing strategies for a mobile sensor network to conduct surveillance in partnership with static alarm triggers. We formulate the problem as a multi-agent reactive synthesis problem with surveillance objectives…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Suda Bharadwaj , Rayna Dimitrova , Ufuk Topcu

Attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS) which manipulate sensor readings can cause enormous physical damage if undetected. Detection of attacks on sensors is crucial to mitigate this issue. We study supervised regression as a means to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Amin Ghafouri , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This paper presents a detection algorithm for sensor attacks and a resilient state estimation scheme for a class of uniformly observable nonlinear systems. An adversary is supposed to corrupt a subset of sensors with the possibly unbounded…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Junsoo Kim , Chanhwa Lee , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun , Jin Heon Seo

We introduce a pursuit game played between a team of a sensor and an attacker and a mobile target in the unbounded Euclidean plane. The target is faster than the sensor, but slower than the attacker. The sensor's objective is to keep the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Prajakta Surve , Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Alexander Von Moll , Isaac Weintraub , David W. Casbeer

We design a new efficient strategy synthesis method applicable to adversarial patrolling problems on graphs with arbitrary-length edges and possibly imperfect intrusion detection. The core ingredient is an efficient algorithm for computing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 David Klaška , Antonín Kučera , Vít Musil , Vojtěch Řehák

We consider a two-player network inspection game, in which a defender allocates sensors with potentially heterogeneous detection capabilities in order to detect multiple attacks caused by a strategic attacker. The objective of the defender…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Bobak McCann , Mathieu Dahan

Graph games provide the foundation for modeling and synthesizing reactive processes. In the synthesis of stochastic reactive processes, the traditional model is perfect-information stochastic games, where some transitions of the game graph…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen

This paper presents a potential game approach for distributed cooperative selection of informative sensors, when the goal is to maximize the mutual information between the measurement variables and the quantities of interest. It is proved…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Han-Lim Choi , Su-Jin Lee