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Fast and accurate detection of cyberattacks is a key element for a cyber-resilient power system. Recently, data-driven detectors and physics-based Moving Target Defences (MTD) have been proposed to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Martin Higgins , Jianhong Wang , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

This paper proposes a cyber-resilient secure control framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs) subject to false data injection (FDI) threats as actuator attacks. The framework integrates data-driven modeling, event-triggered communication,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yashar Mousavi , Mahsa Tavasoli , Ibrahim Beklan Kucukdemiral , Umit Cali , Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh , Ali Karimoddini , Afef Fekih

As power systems evolve with increased integration of renewable energy sources, they become more complex and vulnerable to both cyber and physical threats. This study validates a centralized Dynamic State Estimation (DSE) algorithm designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Emad Abukhousa , Syed Sohail Feroz Syed Afroz , Fahad Alsaeed , Abdulaziz Qwbaiban , A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos

This chapter presents an overview on actuator attacks that exploit zero dynamics, and countermeasures against them. First, zero-dynamics attack is re-introduced based on a canonical representation called normal form. Then it is shown that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Hyungbo Shim , Juhoon Back , Yongsoon Eun , Gyunghoon Park , Jihan Kim

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. A CCPA consists of a physical attack, such as disconnecting a transmission line, followed by a coordinated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

Owing to the advanced communication networks and intelligent electronic devices, the cyber-physical distribution systems (CPDSs) possess the capability to perform flexible economic dispatch and achieve rapid self-healing from extreme…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Yulin Liu , Zhaojun Ruan , Libao Shi

This paper studies novel attack and defense strategies, based on a class of stealthy attacks, namely the zero-dynamics attack (ZDA), for multi-agent control systems. ZDA poses a formidable security challenge since its attack signal is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Yanbing Mao , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani , Pan Zhao , Emrah Akyol , Naira Hovakimyan

In an increasingly interconnected world, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are essential to critical industries like healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing, merging physical processes with computational intelligence. However, the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Danial Abshari , Meera Sridhar

The integration of information and physical systems in modern power grids has heightened vulnerabilities to False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs), threatening the secure operation of power cyber-physical systems (CPS). This paper reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoyong Bo

Modern vehicles have evolved from mechanical systems to complex and connected ones controlled by numerous digital computers interconnected through internal networks. While this development has improved their efficiency and safety, it also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Ghadeer Shaaban , Hassen Fourati , Alain Kibangou , Christophe Prieur , Mohammad Pirani

Cyber-physical systems are critical infrastructures that are crucial both to the reliable delivery of resources such as energy, and to the stable functioning of automatic and control architectures. These systems are composed of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Andrey Y. Lokhov , Nathan Lemons , Thomas C. McAndrew , Aric Hagberg , Scott Backhaus

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) greatly benefit by using machine learning components that can handle the uncertainty and variability of the real-world. Typical components such as deep neural networks, however, introduce new types of hazards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Feiyang Cai , Xenofon Koutsoukos

The ability to detect zero-day (novel) attacks has become essential in the network security industry. Due to ever evolving attack signatures, existing network intrusion detection systems often fail to detect these threats. This project aims…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Cameron Boeder , Troy Januchowski

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are vastly used in today's cities critical infrastructure. The cyber part of these systems usually has a network component through which cyber attacks can be launched. In this paper, we first design an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Soheila Barchinezhad , Mohammad Sayad Haghighi

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in critical infrastructure face a pervasive threat from attackers, motivating research into a variety of countermeasures for securing them. Assessing the effectiveness of these countermeasures is challenging,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yuqi Chen , Bohan Xuan , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun , Fan Zhang

This paper studies provable security guarantees for cyber-physical systems (CPS) under actuator attacks. In particular, we consider CPS safety and propose a new attack detection mechanism based on zeroing control barrier function (ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

This paper deals with analysis, simultaneous detection of faults and attacks, fault-tolerant control and attack-resilient of cyber-physical control systems. In our recent work, it has been observed that an attack detector driven by an input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Linlin Li , Steven X. Ding , Maiying Zhong , Dong Zhao , Yang Shi

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. The main idea of the proposed approach is to invalidate the knowledge that the attackers use to mask the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

As an effective method to protect the daily access to sensitive data against malicious attacks, the audit mechanism has been widely deployed in various practical fields. In order to examine security vulnerabilities and prevent the leakage…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Jianan Chen , Qin Hu , Honglu Jiang

State estimation estimates the system condition in real-time and provides a base case for other energy management system (EMS) applications including real-time contingency analysis and security-constrained economic dispatch. Recent work in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman