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The proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) embedded with vulnerable monolithic software has recently raised serious concerns about their security due to concurrency aspects and fragile communication links. However, verifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Omar M. Alhawi , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

One typical application of unmanned aerial vehicles is the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission, where the objective is to improve situation awareness through information acquisition. For examples, an efficient way to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Yongcan Cao

This paper investigates the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to assist covert communication between a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a ground user under the surveillance of a passive warden. The UAV simultaneously serves its own…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Hung D. Nguyen , Jeongseok Ha

In this correspondence, we propose an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a full-duplex UAV equipped with uniform planar array (UPA) is adopted as a base station for the multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Chaedam Son , Seongah Jeong

An innovative method of detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is presented. The goal of this study is to develop a robust setup for an autonomous multi-rotor hunter UAV, capable of visually detecting and tracking the intruder UAVs for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Maria N. Brunet , Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro , Nina Mahmoudian , Mo Rastgaar

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen to constitute promising airborne communication devices as a benefit of their superior channel quality. But UAV-to-ground (U2G) communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping. Hence, we conceive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhong Zheng , Xinyao Wang , Zesong Fei , Qingqing Wu , Bin Li , Lajos Hanzo

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are transforming modern transportation by enabling cooperative applications such as vehicle platooning, where multiple vehicles travel in close formation to improve efficiency and safety. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Ali Eslami , Mohammad Pirani

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

This paper considers a resilient state estimation framework for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that integrates a Kalman filter-like state estimator and an attack detector. When an attack is detected, the state estimator uses only IMU…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Hyung-Jin Yoon , Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Lui Sha , Petros G. Voulgaris

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy sensor attacks. We start by defining the notion of stealthy attacks in the most general form by leveraging Neyman-Pearson lemma;…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

This paper investigates the vulnerability of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems to stealthy sensor attacks during the learning phase. In particular, we demonstrate that a {data-driven} adversary, without access to the system model,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Sribalaji C. Anand

Safety-critical intelligent cyber-physical systems, such as quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are vulnerable to different types of cyber attacks, and the absence of timely and accurate attack detection can lead to severe…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), previously favored by enthusiasts, have evolved into indispensable tools for effectively managing disasters and responding to emergencies. For example, one of their most critical applications is to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal , Mohamed Rahouti , Kaiqi Xiong , Abdellah Chehri , Nasir Ghani , Jan Bieniek

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to combat against eavesdropping. Such a mobile jamming scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 An Li , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this correspondence, we study the physical layer security in a stochastic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) network from a network-wide perspective, where the locations of UAVs are modeled as a Mat$\acute{\text{e}}$rn hard-core point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiawei Lyu , Hui-Ming Wang

Object-relative mobile robot navigation is essential for a variety of tasks, e.g. autonomous critical infrastructure inspection, but requires the capability to extract semantic information about the objects of interest from raw sensory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Thomas Jantos , Martin Scheiber , Christian Brommer , Eren Allak , Stephan Weiss , Jan Steinbrener

Sensor attacks on robotic vehicles have become pervasive and manipulative. Their latest advancements exploit sensor and detector characteristics to bypass detection. Recent security efforts have leveraged the physics-based model to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yunbo Wang , Cong Sun , Qiaosen Liu , Bingnan Su , Zongxu Zhang , Michael Norris , Gang Tan , Jianfeng Ma

This paper quantifies the security of uncertain interconnected systems under stealthy data injection attacks. In particular, we consider a large-scale system composed of a certain subsystem interconnected with an uncertain subsystem, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Uncooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) pose emerging threats to critical infrastructure and border protection by operating as rogue user equipment (UE) within cellular networks, consuming resources, creating interference, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rajendra Upadhyay , Al Nahian Bin Emran , Rajendra Paudyal , Lisa Donnan , Duminda Wijesekera

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for different applications has increased many folds in recent years. The UAVs are expected to change the future air operations. However, there are instances where the UAVs can be used for malicious…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Wahab Khawaja , Martins Ezuma , Vasilii Semkin , Fatih Erden , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc