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Cyber-physical systems are at the intersection of digital technology and engineering domains, rendering them high-value targets of sophisticated and well-funded cybersecurity threat actors. Prominent cybersecurity attacks on CPS have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shaofei Huang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Lwin Khin Shar

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) play a central role in the behavior of a wide range of autonomous physical systems such as medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and smart homes, many of which are safety-critical. CPSs are often specified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zahra Sadri-Moshkenani , Justin Bradley , Gregg Rothermel

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) allow us to manipulate objects in the physical world by providing a communication bridge between computation and actuation elements. In the current scheme of things, this sought-after control is marred by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Muhammad Atif , Siddique Latif , Rizwan Ahmad , Adnan Khalid Kiani , Junaid Qadir , Adeel Baig , Hisao Ishibuchi , Waseem Abbas

We consider the problem of securing a given control loop implementation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) in the presence of Man-in-the-Middle attacks on data exchange between plant and controller over a compromised network. To this end,…

Modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often designed as networked, software-based controller implementations which have been found to be vulnerable to network-level and physical level attacks. A number of research works have proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Ipsita Koley , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

Simulation tools and testbeds have been proposed to assess the performance of control designs and wireless protocols in isolation. A cyber-physical system (CPS), however, integrates control with network elements, which must be evaluated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Dominik Baumann , Fabian Mager , Harsoveet Singh , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

In this paper, we investigate the control of a cyber-physical system (CPS) while accounting for its vulnerability to external attacks. We formulate a constrained stochastic problem with a robust constraint to ensure robust operation against…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Nishanth Venkatesh , Aditya Dave , Ioannis Faros , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate physical and embedded systems with information and communication technology systems, monitoring and controlling physical processes with minimal human intervention. The connection to information and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Asila AlHarmali , Saqib Ali , Waqas Aman , Omar Hussain

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are systems where a decision making (cyber/control) component is tightly integrated with a physical system (with sensing/actuation) to enable real-time monitoring and control. Recently, there has been…

Principles of modern cyber-physical system (CPS) analysis are based on analytical methods that depend on whether safety or liveness requirements are considered. Complexity is abstracted through different techniques, ranging from stochastic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Eric M. S. P. Veith , Lars Fischer , Martin Tröschel , Astrid Nieße

We discuss challenges to control systems engineering arising from the advent of cyber-physical systems (CPS). After discussing the terminology, general, IT-related issues are treated which need cooperation with computer science, in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Stefan Kowalewski , Bernhard Rumpe , Andre Stollenwerk

Many important properties of cyber-physical systems (CPS) are defined upon the relationship between multiple executions simultaneously in continuous time. Examples include probabilistic fairness and sensitivity to modeling errors (i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Yu Wang , Mojtaba Zarei , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Miroslav Pajic

In recent years, tremendous effort has been spent to modernizing communication infrastructure in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and related Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Daniele Antonioli , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

While procedures prevail on the European market for the greater good of its citizens, it might be daunting when trying to introduce a product, whether innovative or not. In the current world, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are ubiquitous in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Guillaume Nguyen , Manon Knockaert , Michael Lognoul , Xavier Devroey

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate sensing, communication, computation, and control to support critical infrastructure, including smart grids, industrial automation, and control systems. In the electrical utility domain, various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Abile Jean , Kuniyilh S

Robustness as a system property describes the degree to which a system is able to function correctly in the presence of disturbances, i.e., unforeseen or erroneous inputs. In this paper, we introduce a notion of robustness termed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Matthias Rungger , Paulo Tabuada

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) operate in dynamic environments, leading to different types of uncertainty. This work provides a comprehensive review of uncertainty representations and categorizes them based on the dimensions used to represent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Johannes Mäkelburg , Diego Perez-Palacin , Raffaela Mirandola , Maribel Acosta

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of distributed engineered environments where the monitoring and surveillance tasks are governed by tightly integrated computing, communication and control technologies. CPS are omnipresent in our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Michel Barbeau , Georg Carle , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro , Vicenç Torra

In the last decades, Cyber-physical Systems (CPSs) have experienced a significant technological evolution and increased connectivity, at the cost of greater exposure to cyber-attacks. Since many CPS are used in safety-critical systems, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stefano Longari , Alessandro Pozone , Jessica Leoni , Mario Polino , Michele Carminati , Mara Tanelli , Stefano Zanero

Cyber physical systems CPSs embodies the conception as well as the implementation of the integration of the state-of-art technologies in sensing, communication, computing, and control. Such systems incorporate new trends such as cloud…

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