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Zero-day attacks pose severe cybersecurity risks due to their high success rates and stealth. Because signature-based approaches struggle to detect such attacks, building Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) for detecting zero-day attacks is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Nnamdi Jibunoh , Sara Khanchi , Adetokunbo Makanju

We develop a data-driven framework for assessing the resilience of linear time-invariant systems against malicious false-data-injection sensor attacks. Leveraging sparse observability, we propose data-driven resilience metrics and derive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Takumi Shinohara , Karl Henrik Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

We address the problem of robust state reconstruction for discrete-time nonlinear systems when the actuators and sensors are injected with (potentially unbounded) attack signals. Exploiting redundancy in sensors and actuators and using a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Chen Lv , Dragan Nesic , Chao Huang

The vulnerability of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) against adversarial disturbances and attacks significantly restricts their applicability in safety-critical systems including cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Xiaodong Yang , Taylor T. Johnson

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control for discrete-time Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator false data injection attacks. Using a bank of Unknown Input Observers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

This paper presents a novel data-driven framework to aid in system state estimation when the power system is under unobservable false data injection attacks. The proposed framework dynamically detects and classifies false data injection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Meng Wang , Mehrdad Saif , Bruce Fardanesh

This paper studies the synthesis and mitigation of stealthy attacks in nonlinear cyber-physical systems (CPS). To quantify stealthiness, we employ the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, a measure rooted in hypothesis testing and detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Apurva Patil , Kyle Morgenstein , Luis Sentis , Takashi Tanaka

This paper studies attack-resilient estimation of a class of switched nonlinear systems subject to stochastic noises. The systems are threatened by both of signal attacks and switching attacks. The problem is formulated as the joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Hunmin Kim , Pinyao Guo , Minghui Zhu , Peng Liu

This work presents a rigorous analysis of the adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks on discrete-time distributed multi-agent systems, and propose a mitigation approach for attacks on sensors and actuators. First, we show how an attack…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Aquib Mustafa , Hamidreza Modares

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malignant attacks, and specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

This paper studies the vulnerability of large-scale power systems to false data injection (FDI) attacks through their physical consequences. Prior work has shown that an attacker-defender bi-level linear program (ADBLP) can be used to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Zhigang Chu , Jiazi Zhang , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Multi-sensor integration via error-state Kalman filter (KF) is widely employed for precise state estimation in cyber-physical systems (CPSs). However, this integration exposes the system to stealthy deception attacks that render…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Meiqi Tian , Yihan Liu , Bingzhuo Zhong

This paper proposes a data-driven framework to identify the attack-free sensors in a networked control system when some of the sensors are corrupted by an adversary. An operator with access to offline input-output attack-free trajectories…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Sribalaji C. Anand , Michelle S. Chong , André M. H. Teixeira

This paper considers a cyber-physical system under an active eavesdropping attack. A remote legitimate user estimates the state of a linear plant from the state information received from a sensor. Transmissions from the sensor occur via an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Matthew Crimson , Justin M. Kennedy , Daniel E. Quevedo

Smart grids are inherently susceptible to various types of malicious cyberattacks that have all been documented in the recent literature. Traditional cybersecurity research on power systems often utilizes simplified models that fail to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Abdallah Alalem Albustami , Ahmad F. Taha , Elias Bou-Harb

This paper presents a data-driven nonlinear safe control design approach for discrete-time systems under parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances. We first characterize a new control structure from which a data-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Amir Modares , Bosen Lian , Hamidreza Modares

This work considers the problem of designing an attack strategy on remote state estimation under the condition of strict stealthiness and $\epsilon$-stealthiness of the attack. An attacker is assumed to be able to launch a linear attack to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Hanxiao Liu , Yuqing Ni , Lihua Xie , Karl Henrik Johansson

Defenses against security threats have been an interest of recent studies. Recent works have shown that it is not difficult to attack a natural language processing (NLP) model while defending against them is still a cat-mouse game. Backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sangeet Sagar , Abhinav Bhatt , Abhijith Srinivas Bidaralli

Intelligent attackers can suitably tamper sensor/actuator data at various Smart grid surfaces causing intentional power oscillations, which if left undetected, can lead to voltage disruptions. We develop a novel combination of formal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Suman Maiti , Anjana B , Sunandan Adhikary , Ipsita Koley , Soumyajit Dey

Nonlinear, adaptive, or otherwise complex control techniques are increasingly relied upon to ensure the safety of systems operating in uncertain environments. However, the nonlinearity of the resulting closed-loop system complicates…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-17 John F. Quindlen , Ufuk Topcu , Girish Chowdhary , Jonathan P. How