Smart grid cyber security enhancement: Challenges and solutions—A review

T Alsuwian, A Shahid Butt, AA Amin - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The incorporation of communication technology with Smart Grid (SG) is proposed as an
optimal solution to fulfill the requirements of the modern power system. A smart grid …

Secure-by-construction synthesis of cyber-physical systems

S Liu, A Trivedi, X Yin, M Zamani - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
Correct-by-construction synthesis is a cornerstone of the confluence of formal methods and
control theory towards designing safety-critical systems. Instead of following the time-tested …

Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

Differential privacy for symbolic systems with application to Markov Chains

B Chen, K Leahy, A Jones, M Hale - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
Data-driven systems are gathering increasing amounts of data from users, and sensitive
user data requires privacy protections. In some cases, the data gathered is non-numerical or …

Detection and identification of sparse sensor attacks in cyber-physical systems with side information

AY Lu, GH Yang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the attack detection and identification problem for cyber-physical
systems under sparse sensor attacks. A novel candidate set construction algorithm, where …

Strong current-state and initial-state opacity of discrete-event systems

X Han, K Zhang, J Zhang, Z Li, Z Chen - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
Opacity, as an important property in information-flow security, characterizes the ability of a
system to keep some secret information from an intruder. In discrete-event systems, based …

A polynomial-time algorithm for the secure state estimation problem under sparse sensor attacks via state decomposition technique

AY Lu, GH Yang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the secure state estimation problem for cyber–physical systems
(CPSs) under sparse sensor attacks. In the existing results, the secure state estimation is …

A general language-based framework for specifying and verifying notions of opacity

A Wintenberg, M Blischke, S Lafortune… - Discrete Event Dynamic …, 2022 - Springer
Opacity is an information flow property that captures the notion of plausible deniability in
dynamic systems, that is whether an intruder can deduce that “secret” behavior has …

Secure-by-construction optimal path planning for linear temporal logic tasks

S Yang, X Yin, S Li, M Zamani - 2020 59th IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the problem of planning an optimal infinite path for a single
robot to achieve a linear temporal logic (LTL) task with security guarantee. We assume that …

The opacity of timed automata

J An, Q Gao, L Wang, N Zhan, I Hasuo - International Symposium on …, 2024 - Springer
Opacity serves as a critical security and confidentiality property, which concerns whether an
intruder can unveil a system's secret based on structural knowledge and observed …