Cyber-Physical Attacks With Control Objectives

Chen, Yuan; Kar, Soummya; Moura, Jose M.  F.

doi:10.1109/TAC.2017.2741778

Title: Cyber-Physical Attacks With Control Objectives

Abstract

This study studies attackers with control objectives against cyber-physical systems (CPSs). The goal of the attacker is to counteract the CPS's controller and move the system to a target state while evading 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. In conclusion, we provide a numerical illustration based on a remotely controlled helicopter under attack.

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Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Publication Date:: Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Electricity (OE); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 1433632

Grant/Contract Number:: OE0000779; DARPA FA8750-12-2-0291

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 63; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9286

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; attack detection; cyber-physical systems (CPSs); optimal control; security

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                    Chen, Yuan, Kar, Soummya, and Moura, Jose M.  F. Cyber-Physical Attacks With Control Objectives.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Chen, Yuan, Kar, Soummya, & Moura, Jose M.  F. Cyber-Physical Attacks With Control Objectives.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2017.2741778

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                    Chen, Yuan, Kar, Soummya, and Moura, Jose M.  F. Fri .  
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