Sensor and Actuator Attacks of Cyber-Physical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) monitor and regulate physical plants through advanced information technologies including computation, communication and control. With the construction of CPSs in power systems, aerospace, robotics and many other fields, human production and life have been greatly transformed. However, the integration of the information world and physical world brings new safety challenges in the sensor–controller–actuator process of CPSs. Different from traditional control systems, whose safety is mainly threatened by physical faults, CPSs will also compromise cyber-attacks. In particular, intelligent cyber-attacks can lead to more complex destruction under the guise of physical faults. From the viewpoint of control technologies, recent studies have presented many effective approaches to diagnose and attenuate the special faults and attacks in the sensor–controller–actuator process of CPSs. This Special Issue is expected to present advanced control technologies for dealing with more intelligent cyber-attacks, more complex physical faults and their coupling influences in CPSs.

This Special Issue will include, but not limited to, the following topics related to CPSs:

• Fault-tolerant control in CPSs;
• Fault detection and isolation in CPSs;
• Analysis for attack behaviors;
• Secure state estimation and control in CPSs;
• Attack detection and identification in CPSs;
• Secure consensus of multi-agent systems;
• Robotic system safety;
• Power system safety and optimization;
• Transportation system safety.

Prof. Dr. Guanghong Yang
Prof. Dr. Bin Jiang
Prof. Dr. Dan Ye
Dr. Anyang Lu
Guest Editors

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