Cyber Physical Attacks with Control Objectives

zbMATH Open1395.94274arXiv1607.05927MaRDI QIDQ5375223FDOQ5375223

Authors: Yuan Chen, Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura 

Publication date: 14 September 2018

Abstract: This paper studies attackers with control objectives against cyber-physical systems (CPS). The system is equipped with its own controller and attack detector, and the goal of the attacker is to move the system to a target state while altering the system's actuator input and sensor output to avoid detection. We formulate a cost function that reflects the attacker's goals, and, using dynamic programming, we show that the optimal attack strategy reduces to a linear feedback of the attacker's state estimate. By changing the parameters of the cost function, we show how an attacker can design optimal attacks to balance the control objective and the detection avoidance objective. Finally, we provide a numerical illustration based on a remotely-controlled helicopter under attack.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05927

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Filtering in stochastic control theory (93E11) Cryptography (94A60) Applications of design theory to circuits and networks (94C30)

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