English
Related papers

Related papers: Stealthy Cyber-Attacks on Vehicle Lateral Dynamics…

200 papers

Collaborative perception allows connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to improve perception by sharing sensory data, but it also introduces security risks from manipulated inputs. Prior work shows that attackers can spoof or remove…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Qingzhao Zhang , Runting Zhang , Z. Morley Mao

Cyber-physical systems can be subject to sensor attacks, e.g., sensor spoofing, leading to unsafe behaviors. This paper addresses this problem in the context of linear systems when an omniscient attacker can spoof several system sensors at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In Autonomous Driving (AD), real-time perception is a critical component responsible for detecting surrounding objects to ensure safe driving. While researchers have extensively explored the integrity of AD perception due to its safety and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chen Ma , Ningfei Wang , Qi Alfred Chen , Chao Shen

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are transforming modern transportation by enabling cooperative applications such as vehicle platooning, where multiple vehicles travel in close formation to improve efficiency and safety. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Ali Eslami , Mohammad Pirani

Despite significant advancements in deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based autonomous driving policies, these policies still exhibit vulnerability to adversarial attacks. This vulnerability poses a formidable challenge to the practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Junchao Fan , Xuyang Lei , Xiaolin Chang , Jelena Mišić , Vojislav B. Mišić

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

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise efficient, clean and cost-effective transportation systems, but their reliance on sensors, wireless communications, and decision-making systems makes them vulnerable to cyberattacks and physical threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chieh Tsai , Murad Mehrab Abrar , Salim Hariri

This paper presents a secure reinforcement learning (RL) based control method for unknown linear time-invariant cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that are subjected to compositional attacks such as eavesdropping and covert attack. We consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Sayak Mukherjee , Veronica Adetola

We address the problem of detecting and mitigating the effect of malicious attacks to the sensors of a linear dynamical system. We develop a novel, efficient algorithm that uses a Satisfiability-Modulo-Theory approach to isolate the…

The safety-critical nature of vehicle steering is one of the main motivations for exploring the space of possible cyber-physical attacks against the steering systems of modern vehicles. This paper investigates the adversarial capabilities…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Alireza Mohammadi , Hafiz Malik

Evolving cybersecurity threats in complex cyber-physical systems pose significant risks to system functionality and safety. This experience report introduces ACTISM (Automotive Consequence-Driven and Threat-Informed Security Modelling), an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Shaofei Huang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Lwin Khin Shar

While perception systems in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), which encompass both communication technologies and advanced sensors, promise to significantly reduce human driving errors, they also expose CAVs to various cyberattacks.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Zihao Li , Sixu Li , Hao Zhang , Yang Zhou , Siyang Xie , Yunlong Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of attack-resilient state estimation, that is to reliably estimate the true system states despite two classes of attacks: (i) attacks on the switching mechanisms and (ii) false data injection attacks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sze Zheng Yong , Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

The challenge of WAD (web attack detection) is growing as hackers continuously refine their methods to evade traditional detection. Deep learning models excel in handling complex unknown attacks due to their strong generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lijia Shi , Shihao Dong

In a backdoor attack, an adversary inserts maliciously constructed backdoor examples into a training set to make the resulting model vulnerable to manipulation. Defending against such attacks typically involves viewing these inserted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Alaa Khaddaj , Guillaume Leclerc , Aleksandar Makelov , Kristian Georgiev , Hadi Salman , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry

Segmentation models have been found to be vulnerable to targeted and non-targeted adversarial attacks. However, the resulting segmentation outputs are often so damaged that it is easy to spot an attack. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Zhenhua Chen , Chuhua Wang , David J. Crandall

Trajectory prediction is a key element of autonomous vehicle systems, enabling them to anticipate and react to the movements of other road users. Evaluating the robustness of prediction models against adversarial attacks is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Julian F. Schumann , Jeroen Hagenus , Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Arkady Zgonnikov

We make a methodological contribution by introducing a new dimension of traffic conflict severity: the probability that a driver is in a defensive state. This behavioural probability reflects an internal response to perceived risk and is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-27 Rulla Al-Haideri , Karim Ismail , Bilal Farooq , Adam Weiss

Globally, motorcycles attract vast and varied users. However, since the rate of severe injury and fatality in motorcycle accidents far exceeds passenger car accidents, efforts have been directed toward increasing passive safety systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Philipp Rodegast , Steffen Maier , Jonas Kneifl , Jörg Fehr