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Resilience to sensor and actuator attacks is a major concern in the supervisory control of discrete events in cyber-physical systems (CPS). In this work, we propose a new framework to design supervisors for CPS under attacks using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yu Wang , Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Nathan Smith , Miroslav Pajic

We consider a multi-adversary version of the supervisory control problem for discrete-event systems, in which an adversary corrupts the observations available to the supervisor. The supervisor's goal is to enforce a specific language in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Masashi Wakaiki , Paulo Tabuada , Joao P. Hespanha

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as autonomous vehicles crossing an intersection, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks and their safety-critical nature makes them a target for malicious adversaries. This paper studies the problem of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Amin Ghafouri , Xenofon D. Koutsoukos

This paper focuses on the problem of cyber attacks for discrete event systems under supervisory control. In more detail, the goal of the supervisor, who has a partial observation of the system evolution, is that of preventing the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Qi Zhang , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

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 deployment of control systems with network-connected components has made feedback control systems vulnerable to attacks over the network. This paper considers the problem of intrusion detection and mitigation in supervisory control…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Lilian Kawakami Carvalho , Yi-Chin Wu , Raymond Kwong , Stéphane Lafortune

Learning-enabled controllers used in cyber-physical systems (CPS) are known to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Such attacks manifest as perturbations to the states generated by the controller's environment in response to its actions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zikang Xiong , Joe Eappen , He Zhu , Suresh Jagannathan

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

In this paper, we investigate joint sensor-actuator cyber attacks in discrete event systems. We assume that attackers can attack some sensors and actuators at the same time by altering observations and control commands. Because of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Shengbao Zheng , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

An analytical approach for a dynamic cyber-security problem that captures progressive attacks to a computer network is presented. We formulate the dynamic security problem from the defender's point of view as a supervisory control problem…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Mohammad Rasouli , Erik Miehling , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Cyber attacks are unavoidable in networked discrete event systems where the plant and the supervisor communicate with each other via networks. Because of the nondeterminism in observation and control caused by cyber attacks, the language…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Xiaojun Wang , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

In this paper, we propose and address the problem of supervisor obfuscation against actuator enablement attack, in a common setting where the actuator attacker can eavesdrop the control commands issued by the supervisor. We propose a method…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Yuting Zhu , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

The rise of cyber-security concerns has brought significant attention to the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). Among the various types of cyberattacks, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and false data injection (FDI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Wenjie Liu , Lidong Li , Jian Sun , Fang Deng , Gang Wang , Jie Chen

In this paper, we investigate the control of a cyber-physical system (CPS) while accounting for its vulnerability to external attacks. We formulate a constrained stochastic problem with a robust constraint to ensure robust operation against…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Nishanth Venkatesh , Aditya Dave , Ioannis Faros , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We consider feedback control systems where sensor readings may be compromised by a malicious attacker intending on causing damage to the system. We study this problem at the supervisory layer of the control system, using discrete event…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Rômulo Meira-Góes , Stéphane Lafortune , Hervé Marchand

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), in most instances, represent systems of systems with an informationally decentralized structure such as emerging mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Andreas Malikopoulos

In this work, we investigate how to make use of model reduction techniques to identify the vulnerability of a closed-loop system, consisting of a plant and a supervisor, that might invite attacks. Here, the system vulnerability refers to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

One of the major challenges about cyber physical systems is how to prevent cyber attacks to ensure system integrity. There has been a large number of different types of attacks discussed in the modern control and computer science…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Rong Su

We investigate deterministic and nonblocking supervisory control of discrete event systems under cyber-attacks using the ALTER (Attack Language for Transition-basEd Replacement) model. While prior works consider supervisory control that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Feng Lin , Caisheng Wang , Jun Chen , Xiang Yin

In this paper, coordination control of discrete event systems under joint sensor and actuator attacks is investigated. Sensor attacks are described by a set of attack languages using a proposed ALTER model. Several local supervisors are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Fei Wang , Jan Komenda , Feng Lin
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