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In this work, we propose and develop a new discrete-event based actuator attack model on the closed-loop system formed by the plant and the supervisor. We assume the actuator attacker partially observes the execution of the closed-loop…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Liyong Lin , Sander Thuijsman , Yuting Zhu , Simon Ware , Rong Su , Michel Reniers

In decentralized systems, branching behaviors naturally arise due to communication, unmodeled dynamics and system abstraction, which can not be adequately captured by the traditional sequencing-based language equivalence. As a finer…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Yajuan Sun , Hai Lin , Ben. M. Chen

We investigate decentralized state estimation for a discrete event system in a setting where the information received at a coordinator may be corrupted or tampered by a malicious attacker. Specifically, a system is observed by a set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Dajiang Sun , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Nathaniel Smith , Yu Wang

Supervisor localization procedure can be employed to construct local controllers corresponding to component agents in discrete-event systems. The proposed method in [11] is based on state reduction of a monolithic supervisor with respect to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Vahid Saeidi , Ali A. Afzalian , Davood Gharavian

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as autonomous vehicles crossing an intersection, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks and their safety-critical nature makes them a target for malicious adversaries. This paper studies the problem of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Amin Ghafouri , Xenofon D. Koutsoukos

In practice, we can not only disable some events, but also enforce the occurrence of some events prior to the occurrence of other events by external control. In this paper, we combine these two control mechanisms to synthesize a more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Lin Cao , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

This paper investigates the problem of distributed nonblocking supervisory control for timed discrete-event systems (DESs). The distributed supervisors communicate with each other over networks subject to nondeterministic communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Yunfeng Hou , Qingdu Li

Due to the appearance of uncontrollable events in discrete event systems, one may wish to replace the behavior leading to the uncontrollability of pre-specified language by some quite similar one. To capture this similarity, we introduce…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yongzhi Cao , Mingsheng Ying

Decentralized control systems are widely used in a number of situations and applications. In order for these systems to function properly and achieve their desired goals, information must be propagated between agents, which requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Paul Griffioen , Raffaele Romagnoli , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

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

This paper identifies a property of delay-robustness in distributed supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES) with communication delays. In previous work a distributed supervisory control problem has been investigated on the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Renyuan Zhang , Kai Cai , Yongmei Gan , W. M. Wonham

Critical real-world applications strongly rely on Cyber-physical systems (CPS), but their dependence on communication networks introduces significant security risks, as attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise their integrity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Samuel Oliveira , Mostafa Tavakkoli Anbarani , Gregory Beal , Ilya Kovalenko , Marcelo Teixeira , André B. Leal , Rômulo Meira-Góes

Energy constraint long-range wireless sensor/ actuator based solutions are theoretically the perfect choice to support the next generation of city-scale cyber-physical systems. Traditional systems adopt periodic control which increases…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sokratis Kartakis , Anqi Fu , Manuel Mazo , Julie A. McCann

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

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 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

This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing sensor deception attackers against privacy in the context of supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES). We consider a DES plant controlled by a supervisor, which is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jingshi Yao , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

In this paper, we shall formulate and address a problem of covert actuator attacker synthesis for cyber-physical systems that are modelled by discrete-event systems. We assume the actuator attacker partially observes the execution of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In order to guarantee that a supervised system satisfies safety requirements of the specification, as well as requirements saying that in certain states certain events must be enabled, this paper introduces required events for discrete…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Wang , Zhaohui Zhu , Rob van Glabbeek , Jinjin Zhang , Yixuan Li