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Current cyber-physical systems (CPS) are expected to accomplish complex tasks. To achieve this goal, high performance, but unverified controllers (e.g. deep neural network, black-box controllers from third parties) are applied, which makes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

This article studies a fundamental problem of security of cyber-physical systems (CPSs): that of detecting, almost surely, the presence of malicious components in the CPS. We assume that some of the actuators may be malicious while all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Souvik Das , Priyanka Dey , Debasish Chatterjee

Research evidence in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) shows that the introduced tight coupling of information technology with physical sensing and actuation leads to more vulnerability and security weaknesses. But, the traditional security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Amr Alanwar , Bernhard Etzlinger , Henrique Ferraz , Joao Hespanha , Mani Srivastava

Malicious attacks on modern autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPSs) can leverage information about the system dynamics and noise characteristics to hide while hijacking the system toward undesired states. Given attacks attempting to hide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Paul J. Bonczek , Shijie Gao , Nicola Bezzo

This chapter provides an overview of the evolving landscape of attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS) and critical infrastructures, highlighting the possible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to develop intelligent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Alan Oliveira de Sá , Charles Bezerra Prado , Mariana Luiza Flavio , Luiz F. Rust da C. Carmo

Cyber-physical systems are integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes. Due to the tight cyber-physical coupling and to the potentially disrupting consequences of failures, security here is one of the primary concerns.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Yuriy Zacchia Lun , Alessandro D'Innocenzo , Ivano Malavolta , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

Technical advances in ubiquitous sensing, embedded computing, and wireless communication are leading to a new generation of engineered systems called cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS promises to transform the way we interact with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Feng Xia , Longhua Ma , Jinxiang Dong , Youxian Sun

The increasing integration of AI agents into cyber-physical systems (CPS) introduces new security risks that extend beyond traditional cyber or physical threat models. Recent advances in generative AI enable deepfake and semantic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohsen Hatami , Van Tuan Pham , Hozefa Lakadawala , Yu Chen

This survey presents an overview of verification techniques for autonomous systems, with a focus on safety-critical autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) and subcomponents thereof. Autonomy in CPS is enabling by recent advances in…

We study the security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the context of the supervisory control layer. Specifically, we propose a general model of a CPS attacker in the framework of discrete event systems and investigate the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Romulo Meira-Goes , Eunsuk Kang , Raymond H. Kwong , Stephane Lafortune

The rapid evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) across various domains like mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, and the Internet of Things necessitates innovative solutions that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Andreas A. Malikopoulos

High performance but unverified controllers, e.g., artificial intelligence-based (a.k.a. AI-based) controllers, are widely employed in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) to accomplish complex control missions. However, guaranteeing the safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Bingzhuo Zhong , Abolfazl Lavaei , Hongpeng Cao , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

With the emergence of low-cost smart and connected IoT devices, the area of cyber-physical security is becoming increasingly important. Past research has demonstrated new threat vectors targeting the transition process between the cyber and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Zhiyuan Yu , Zack Kaplan , Qiben Yan , Ning Zhang

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been increasingly attacked by hackers. Recent studies have shown that CPS are especially vulnerable to insider attacks, in which case the attacker has full knowledge of the systems configuration. To better…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-30 Michael Biehler , Zhen Zhong , Jianjun Shi

The growing complexity of modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the frequent communication between their components make them vulnerable to malicious attacks. As a result, secure state estimation is a critical requirement for the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Xusheng Luo , Miroslav Pajic , Michael M. Zavlanos

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are increasingly complex and frequently integrated into modern societies via critical infrastructure systems, products, and services. Consequently, there is a need for reliable functionality of these complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Babak Aslani , Shima Mohebbi , Edward J. Oughton

Formal modeling of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is hard, because they pose the double challenge of combined discrete-continuous dynamics and concurrent behavior. Existing formal specification and verification languages for CPS are designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Eduard Kamburjan , Stefan Mitsch , Martina Kettenbach , Reiner Hähnle

Cyber threats against space infrastructures, including satellites and systems on the ground, have not been adequately understood. Testbeds are important to deepen our understanding and validate space cybersecurity studies. The state of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jose Luis Castanon Remy , Caleb Chang , Ekzhin Ear , Shouhuai Xu

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate sensing, computing, and control to improve infrastructure performance, focusing on economic goals like performance and safety. However, they often neglect potential human-centered (or ''social'')…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cheyu Lin , John Martins , Katherine A. Flanigan , Ph. D

Edge computing is projected to have profound implications in the coming decades, proposed to provide solutions for applications such as augmented reality, predictive functionalities, and collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). For such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez , Nils Jörgensen , Martin Törngren , Rafia Inam , Andrii Berezovskyi , Lei Feng , Elena Fersman , Muhammad Rusyadi Ramli , Kaige Tan