Planning with Probabilistic Opacity and Transparency: A Computational Model of Opaque/Transparent Observations

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Autori principali: Udupa, Sumukha, Fu, Jie
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Fu, Jie
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Fu, Jie
contents Qualitative opacity of a secret is a security property, which means that a system trajectory satisfying the secret is observation-equivalent to a trajectory violating the secret. In this paper, we study how to synthesize a control policy that maximizes the probability of a secret being made opaque against an eavesdropping attacker/observer, while subject to other task performance constraints. In contrast to existing belief-based approach for opacity-enforcement, we develop an approach that uses the observation function, the secret, and the model of the dynamical systems to construct a so-called opaque-observations automaton which accepts the exact set of observations that enforce opacity. Leveraging this opaque-observations automaton, we can reduce the optimal planning in Markov decision processes(MDPs) for maximizing probabilistic opacity or its dual notion, transparency, subject to task constraints into a constrained planning problem over an augmented-state MDP. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness of the developed methods in robot motion planning problems with opacity or transparency requirements.
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Udupa, Sumukha
Fu, Jie
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
F.4.3
Qualitative opacity of a secret is a security property, which means that a system trajectory satisfying the secret is observation-equivalent to a trajectory violating the secret. In this paper, we study how to synthesize a control policy that maximizes the probability of a secret being made opaque against an eavesdropping attacker/observer, while subject to other task performance constraints. In contrast to existing belief-based approach for opacity-enforcement, we develop an approach that uses the observation function, the secret, and the model of the dynamical systems to construct a so-called opaque-observations automaton which accepts the exact set of observations that enforce opacity. Leveraging this opaque-observations automaton, we can reduce the optimal planning in Markov decision processes(MDPs) for maximizing probabilistic opacity or its dual notion, transparency, subject to task constraints into a constrained planning problem over an augmented-state MDP. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness of the developed methods in robot motion planning problems with opacity or transparency requirements.
title Planning with Probabilistic Opacity and Transparency: A Computational Model of Opaque/Transparent Observations
topic Formal Languages and Automata Theory
F.4.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05408