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Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are being increasingly utilized for critical applications. CPS combines sensing and computing elements, often having multi-layer designs with networking, computational, and physical interfaces, which provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah

This article provides a tool for analyzing mechanisms that aim to achieve resilience against stealthy, or undetectable, attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We consider attackers who are able to corrupt all of the inputs and outputs of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Paul Griffioen , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often safety-critical and deployed in uncertain environments. Identifying scenarios where CPSs do not comply with requirements is fundamental but difficult due to the multidisciplinary nature of CPSs. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Claudio Mandrioli , Seung Yeob Shin , Martina Maggio , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

In this paper, we address two main problems in the context of covert cyber-attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS). First, we aim to investigate and develop necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of disruption resources of the CPS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Mahdi Taheri , Khashayar Khorasani , Nader Meskin

This paper presents general strategies for cyber war gaming of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) that are used for cyber security research at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). Since Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-25 E. J. M. Colbert , D. T. Sullivan , A Kott

Characterizing attacker behavior with respect to Cyber-Physical Systems is important to assuring the security posture and resilience of these systems. Classical cyber vulnerability assessment approaches rely on the knowledge and experience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Christopher Deloglos , Carl Elks , Ashraf Tantawy

Currently, most of the research in digital twins focuses on simulation and optimization. Digital twins are especially useful for critical systems. However, digital twins can also be used for safety and cyber security. The idea of this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Tianyu Zhao , Ernest Foo , Hui Tian

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) incorporate the complex and large-scale engineered systems behind critical infrastructure operations, such as water distribution networks, energy delivery systems, healthcare services, manufacturing systems, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Charalambos Konstantinou , George Stergiopoulos , Masood Parvania , Paulo Esteves-Verissimo

The integration of machine learning (ML) into cyber-physical systems (CPS) offers significant benefits, including enhanced efficiency, predictive capabilities, real-time responsiveness, and the enabling of autonomous operations. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xi Zheng , Aloysius K. Mok , Ruzica Piskac , Yong Jae Lee , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Dakai Zhu , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

As the era of autonomous cyber-physical systems (ACPSs), such as unmanned aerial vehicles and self-driving cars, unfolds, the demand for robust testing methodologies is key to realizing the adoption of such systems in real-world scenarios.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Christian Birchler , Sajad Khatiri , Pooja Rani , Timo Kehrer , Sebastiano Panichella

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to satisfy safety constraints in various application domains such as robotics, industrial manufacturing systems, and power systems. Faults and cyber attacks have been shown to cause safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Abdullah Al Maruf , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) enable new kinds of applications as well as significant improvements of existing ones in numerous different application domains. A major trait of upcoming CPS is an increasing degree of automation up to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Daniel Schneider , Jan Reich , Rasmus Adler , Peter Liggesmeyer

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) has made a tremendous progress in recent years and also disrupted many technical fields such as smart industries, smart health, smart transportation etc. to flourish the nations economy. However, CPS Security is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Raj Chaganti , Deepti Gupta , Naga Vemprala

We apply formal methods to lay and streamline theoretical foundations to reason about Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) and physics-based attacks, i.e., attacks targeting physical devices. We focus on a formal treatment of both integrity and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Ruggero Lanotte , Massimo Merro , Andrei Munteanu , Luca Viganò

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are formed through interconnected components capable of computation, communication, sensing and changing the physical world. The development of these systems poses a significant challenge since they have to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Igor Ivkic , Patrizia Sailer , Antonios Gouglidis , Andreas Mauthe , Markus Tauber

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) embed software into the physical world. They appear in a wide range of applications such as smart grids, robotics, intelligent manufacture and medical monitoring. CPSs have proved resistant to modeling due to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Ye Yuan , Xiuchuan Tang , Wei Pan , Xiuting Li , Wei Zhou , Hai-Tao Zhang , Han Ding , Jorge Goncalves

In the last decades, Cyber-physical Systems (CPSs) have experienced a significant technological evolution and increased connectivity, at the cost of greater exposure to cyber-attacks. Since many CPS are used in safety-critical systems, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stefano Longari , Alessandro Pozone , Jessica Leoni , Mario Polino , Michele Carminati , Mara Tanelli , Stefano Zanero

The first International Workshop on Verification and Validation of Cyber-Physical Systems (V2CPS-16) was held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on integration of Formal Methods (iFM 2016) in Reykjavik, Iceland. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Mehdi Kargahi , Ashutosh Trivedi

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

For exhaustive formal verification, industrial-scale cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are often too large and complex, and lightweight alternatives (e.g., monitoring and testing) have attracted the attention of both industrial practitioners…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Masaki Waga