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Poisoning attack on VIMT and its adverse effect

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In recent years, various approaches have been proposed to design control systems that directly utilize data without mathematical plant models. Data-driven control involves updating or redesigning a controller using actual operating data, enabling fine-tuning control systems and achieving desired characteristics. However, the increasing prevalence of cyber-attacks targeting control systems presents significant societal challenges. A study by Russo and Proutiere (in Proceeding of American Control Conference (ACC), 2021) showed a poisoning approach targeting virtual reference feedback tuning, a data-driven control method. The study suggests that compromising the data used in the data-driven method may result in the closed-loop performance failing to achieve desired specifications and, in the worst case, destabilizing the control system. Hence, investigating the adverse effects of cyber-attacks on data employed in data-driven methods becomes crucial. This study explores the impact of a poisoning attack on the data used in the data-driven control method, specifically emphasizing virtual internal model tuning as a representative data-driven control approach.

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This work is partially supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid (B) 20H02169.

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  1. Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1, Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    Taichi Ikezaki

  2. Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Osamu Kaneko

  3. Info-Powered Energy System Research Center, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Kenji Sawada

  4. Research and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., 7-1-1, Omika-cho, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 319-1292, Japan

    Junya Fujita

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This work was presented in part at the joint symposium of the 27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, the 7th International Symposium on BioComplexity, and the 5th International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (Online, January 25–27, 2022).

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Ikezaki, T., Kaneko, O., Sawada, K. et al. Poisoning attack on VIMT and its adverse effect. Artif Life Robotics 29, 168–176 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-023-00914-7

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