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Data-driven control has emerged as a powerful paradigm for synthesizing controllers directly from data, bypassing explicit model identification. However, this reliance on data introduces new and largely unexplored vulnerabilities. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Vijayanand Digge , Martina Vanelli , Ahmad W. Al-Dabbagh , Julien M. Hendrickx , Gianluca Bianchin

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles autonomously perform tasks with the use of state-of-the-art control algorithms. These control algorithms rely on the freshness and correctness of sensor readings. Incorrect control actions lead to catastrophic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alessandro Erba , John H. Castellanos , Sahil Sihag , Saman Zonouz , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to neural networks, enabling adversaries to manipulate model outputs on specific inputs, often with devastating consequences, especially in critical applications. While backdoor attacks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhen Guo , Abhinav Kumar , Reza Tourani

This paper addresses the data-driven structured controller design problem for continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. We consider three control objectives, including stabilization, $H_2$ performance, and $H_\infty$ performance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Zhaohua Yang , Yuxing Zhong , Ling Shi

This work provides a framework for data-driven control of discrete time systems with unknown input-output dynamics and outputs controllable by the inputs. This framework leads to stable and robust real-time control of the system such that a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Amit K. Sanyal

We consider malicious attacks on actuators and sensors of a feedback system which can be modeled as additive, possibly unbounded, disturbances at the digital (cyber) part of the feedback loop. We precisely characterize the role of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Mohammad Naghnaeian , Nabil Hirzallah , Petros G. Voulgaris

This paper investigates the security issue of the data replay attacks on the control systems. The attacker is assumed to interfere with the control system process in a steady-state case. The problem is presented as the standard way to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Amirreza Zaman , Behrouz Safarinejadian

In this paper, we study the impact of stealthy attacks on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) modeled as a stochastic linear system. An attack is characterised by a malicious injection into the system through input, output or both, and it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Tianju Sui , Yilin Mo , Damián Marelli , Ximing Sun , Minyue Fu

Recent deep neural networks based techniques, especially those equipped with the ability of self-adaptation in the system level such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL), are shown to possess many advantages of optimizing robot learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Yi Ouyang , I-Te Danny Hung , Chin-Hui Lee , Xiaoli Ma

This paper considers a constrained discrete-time linear system subject to actuation attacks. The attacks are modelled as false data injections to the system, such that the total input (control input plus injection) satisfies hard input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-18 P. A. Trodden , J. M. Maestre , H. Ishii

We investigate resilient control strategies for linear systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. By DoS attacks we mean interruptions of communication on measurement (sensor-to-controller) and/or control (controller-to-actuator)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

Complex autonomous control systems are subjected to sensor failures, cyber-attacks, sensor noise, communication channel failures, etc. that introduce errors in the measurements. The corrupted information, if used for making decisions, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Abhishek Gupta , Zhaoyuan Yang

SCADA protocols for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are vulnerable to network attacks such as session hijacking. Hence, research focuses on network anomaly detection based on meta--data (message sizes, timing, command sequence), or on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Amit Kleinmann , Ori Amichay , Avishai Wool , David Tenenbaum , Ofer Bar , Leonid Lev

Attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS) which manipulate sensor readings can cause enormous physical damage if undetected. Detection of attacks on sensors is crucial to mitigate this issue. We study supervised regression as a means to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Amin Ghafouri , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Machine learning models are vulnerable to simple model stealing attacks if the adversary can obtain output labels for chosen inputs. To protect against these attacks, it has been proposed to limit the information provided to the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Taesung Lee , Benjamin Edwards , Ian Molloy , Dong Su

Deep neural networks are normally executed in the forward direction. However, in this work, we identify a vulnerability that enables models to be trained in both directions and on different tasks. Adversaries can exploit this capability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Guy Amit , Mosh Levy , Yisroel Mirsky

Many Machine Learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: There exist methodologies that add a small (imperceptible) perturbation to an input such that the model comes up with a wrong prediction. Better understanding of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Paul Stahlhofen , André Artelt , Luca Hermes , Barbara Hammer

In this work, we study vulnerability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to stealthy attacks on perception-based control. To guide our analysis, we consider two specific missions: ($i$) ground vehicle tracking (GVT), and ($ii$) vertical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Amir Khazraei , Haocheng Meng , Miroslav Pajic

Prompt-based approaches offer a cutting-edge solution to data privacy issues in continual learning, particularly in scenarios involving multiple data suppliers where long-term storage of private user data is prohibited. Despite delivering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Trang Nguyen , Anh Tran , Nhat Ho