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This paper studies the problem of secure state estimation of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system with bounded noise in the presence of sparse attacks on an unknown, time-varying set of sensors. In other words, at each time, the attacker…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Zishuo Li , Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Changxin Liu , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

With the ever-increasing reliance on data for data-driven applications in power grids, such as event cause analysis, the authenticity of data streams has become crucially important. The data can be prone to adversarial stealthy attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Iman Niazazari , Hanif Livani

Finite-time stability of networked control systems under Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are investigated in this paper, where the communication between the plant and the controller is compromised at some time intervals. Toward this goal,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Nader Meskin

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

A resilient state estimation scheme for uniformly observable nonlinear systems, based on a method for local identification of sensor attacks, is presented. The estimation problem is combinatorial in nature, and so many methods require…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Junsoo Kim , Jin Gyu Lee , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

This paper considers the analysis and design of resilient/robust decentralized control systems. Specifically, we aim to assess how the pairing of sensors and actuators lead to architectures that are resilient to attacks/hacks for industrial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Sergio Pequito , Farshad Khorrami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we analyze the fundamental stealthiness-distortion tradeoffs of linear Gaussian dynamical systems under data injection attacks using a power spectral analysis, whereas the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is employed as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

Cyber-physical robotic systems are vulnerable to false data injection attacks (FDIAs), in which an adversary corrupts sensor signals while evading residual-based passive anomaly detectors such as the chi-squared test. Such stealthy attacks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gabriele Gualandi , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos

Deep learning (DL) models for natural language-to-code generation have become integral to modern software development pipelines. However, their heavy reliance on large amounts of data, often collected from unsanitized online sources,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Cristina Improta

The design of safe-critical control algorithms for systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on the system output is studied in this work. We aim to address scenarios where attack-mitigation approaches are not feasible, and the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Santiago Jimenez Leudo , Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) rely on insecure protocols and devices to monitor and operate critical infrastructure. Prior work has demonstrated that powerful attackers with detailed system knowledge can manipulate exchanged sensor data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Herson Esquivel-Vargas , John Henry Castellanos , Marco Caselli , Nils Ole Tippenhauer , Andreas Peter

Determining the reachable set for a given nonlinear control system is crucial for system control and planning. However, computing such a set is impossible if the system's dynamics are not fully known. This paper is motivated by a scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Taha Shafa , Melkior Ornik

In this paper, we propose a data-driven networked control architecture for unknown and constrained cyber-physical systems capable of detecting networked false-data-injection attacks and ensuring plant's safety. In particular, on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia

Machine learning systems are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers manipulate model behavior through data tampering or architectural modifications. Traditional backdoor attacks involve injecting malicious samples with specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuan Ma , Jiankang Wei , Yilun Lyu , Kehao Chen , Jingtong Huang

Information-theoretic stealth attacks are data injection attacks that minimize the amount of information acquired by the operator about the state variables, while simultaneously limiting the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ke Sun , Iñaki Esnaola , Antonia M. Tulino , H. Vincent Poor

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the effects of data poisoning attacks on data-driven control methods. Poisoning attacks are well-known to the Machine Learning community, which, however, make use of assumptions, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Alessio Russo

Anomaly-based intrusion detection promises to detect novel or unknown attacks on industrial control systems by modeling expected system behavior and raising corresponding alarms for any deviations.As manually creating these behavioral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Dominik Kus , Eric Wagner , Jan Pennekamp , Konrad Wolsing , Ina Berenice Fink , Markus Dahlmanns , Klaus Wehrle , Martin Henze

We address the problem of estimating the state of a differentially flat system from measurements that may be corrupted by an adversarial attack. In cyber-physical systems, malicious attacks can directly compromise the system's sensors or…

In this paper, a new framework for the resilient control of continuous-time linear systems under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and system uncertainty is presented. Integrating techniques from reinforcement learning and output regulation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Weinan Gao , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Tianyou Chai

Hybrid systems are integrations of discrete computation and continuous physical evolution. The physical components of such systems introduce safety requirements, the achievement of which asks for the correct monitoring and control from the…

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