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Main Authors: Smith, Nathaniel, Wang, Yu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12833
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author Smith, Nathaniel
Wang, Yu
author_facet Smith, Nathaniel
Wang, Yu
contents The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to neutralize attacks on CPS. The supervisor strives to confine the (symbolic) paths of the system to a desired language via sensors and actuators in a closed control loop, even when attackers can manipulate the symbols received by the sensors and actuators. Currently, supervisory control methods face limitations when effectively identifying and mitigating unknown, broad-spectrum attackers. In order to capture the behavior of broad-spectrum attacks on both sensing and actuation channels we model the plant, supervisors, and attackers with finite-state transducers (FSTs). Our general method for addressing unknown attackers involves constructing FST models of the attackers from spectral analysis of their input and output symbol sequences recorded from a history of attack behaviors observed in a supervisory control loop. To construct these FST models, we devise a novel learning method based on the recorded history of attack behaviors. A supervisor is synthesized using such models to neutralize the attacks.
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spellingShingle Data-driven Supervisory Control under Attacks via Spectral Learning
Smith, Nathaniel
Wang, Yu
Systems and Control
The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to neutralize attacks on CPS. The supervisor strives to confine the (symbolic) paths of the system to a desired language via sensors and actuators in a closed control loop, even when attackers can manipulate the symbols received by the sensors and actuators. Currently, supervisory control methods face limitations when effectively identifying and mitigating unknown, broad-spectrum attackers. In order to capture the behavior of broad-spectrum attacks on both sensing and actuation channels we model the plant, supervisors, and attackers with finite-state transducers (FSTs). Our general method for addressing unknown attackers involves constructing FST models of the attackers from spectral analysis of their input and output symbol sequences recorded from a history of attack behaviors observed in a supervisory control loop. To construct these FST models, we devise a novel learning method based on the recorded history of attack behaviors. A supervisor is synthesized using such models to neutralize the attacks.
title Data-driven Supervisory Control under Attacks via Spectral Learning
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12833