arXiv papers on the security (attacks and defenses) of AI-driven cyber-physical systems:
autonomous driving, robotics, drones/UAVs, and embodied AI. Harvested from
cs.LG, cs.CV, cs.CR, cs.CL, cs.AI, stat.ML, eess.IV, cs.RO, eess.SY, cs.SY
since 2013. Keyword harvest + distant-supervised TF-IDF/logistic-regression filter; confidence in brackets.
Total: 1162 papers.
Last update: 2026-10-30.

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2026-10 (21 papers)

• [93%] Embodied AI / VLA Detect and Suppress: A Mechanistic Defense against Adversarial Patches in VLA Models
  Yukiya Horiba; Koshiro Aoki; Shunsuke Yasuki; Bum Jun Kim; Taiki Miyanishi
• [92%] Autonomous driving / vehicles Transferable Spatial Temporal Coherence Adversarial Attack on Black-Box Vision Language Models for Autonomous Driving
  Heyam Bin Jahlan Areej Alhothali Abeer Alhothali
• [90%] Drones / UAV Defense-in-Depth at the Perception-Reasoning Interface of LLM-Centric Agentic UAV Swarms
  Mohammadhossein Homaei; Yousef Emami; Sajad Homayoun; Rahim Taheri; Hao Zhou; Miguel Gutierrez Gaitan; Bo Wei
• [89%] Autonomous driving / vehicles Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool? A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks
  Harsh Aaryan; Ce Zhou
• [87%] Embodied AI / VLA Black-Box Adversarial Patch Attacks on VLAs via Ancestor VLM Exploitation
  Xiaoyi Pang; Haoyue Feng; Quanxin Shou; Yikun Miao; Zhengyang Yan; Song Guo
• [87%] Drones / UAV Receiver-Domain Behavioral Probing for Backdoor-Resilient Federated GPS Spoofing Detection in UAV Networks
  Will Jedrzejczak; Cole Walther; Dilpreet Gill; Moh Khalid Hasan
• [87%] Embodied AI / VLA Enhancing Visual Task-Redirection Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Closed-Loop Optimization
  Chunjin Ye; Guanying Chen; Jianjie Huang; Jianhao Chen; Quanlin Chen; Hanjie Zhao; Haozhe Liang; Tieyun Qian; Xiaochun Cao
• [84%] Drones / UAV Defending Consensus-Based Cooperative Sensing Against Conformity-Driven Byzantine Attacks in 6G UAV Swarm Networks
  Ruixing Ren; Junhui Zhao; He Fang; Xiaoke Sun; Jiamin Li; Pengcheng Zhu; Dongming Wang
• [84%] Robotics PhantomTac: Hijacking Robotic Tactile Systems with Deploy-and-forget Tags
  Binbin Zhang; Yifeng Zhang; Xiaomeng Chen; Dongyao Chen
• [82%] Robotics Lie Rarely, Lie Big: Stealthy Insider Attacks on LLM Robot Teams
  Sribalaji C. Anand; George J. Pappas
• [82%] Embodied AI / VLA Benchmarking Jailbreak Guardrails for Embodied Agents
  Xunguang Wang; Qingyue Wang; Yuguang Zhou; Zongjie Li; Wenxuan Wang; Shuai Wang
• [80%] Autonomous driving / vehicles Adversarial Robustness of Camera-Radar Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving
  Ce Zhou; Yubo Wu; Khang Nguyen; Liyang Xiao; Thomas Hou; Qiben Yan
• [79%] Embodied AI / VLA From bits to atoms: A survey of cross-layer safety in Embodied AI
  Tuo Feng; Yue Zhang; Shiji Zhou; Zhaoxin Fan; Wenguan Wang; Xiaowei Chi; Tianyu Shen; Xiangtai Li; Xuesong Bai; Zheng Zhu; Sirui Han; Boyu Zhou; Zhaosong Wang; Shizhe Chen; Zilong Zheng; Chenjia Bai; Jiangmiao Pang; Yaodong Yang; Hao Zhao; Di Hu; Li Yi; Yan Huang; Qi Wu; Hanwang Zhang; Fei Gao; Shanghang Zhang; Hongsheng Li; Jianye Hao; Yuan Zhang; Yingjie Xia; Jian Shen; Cewu Lu; Hui Zhang; Kai Chen; Wenwu Yu; Badong Chen; Jungong Han; Yike Guo
• [77%] Embodied AI / VLA TMT: Runtime Backdoor Detection for Vision-Language-Action Policies on Unseen Tasks
  Zirun Zhou; Jingfeng Zhang; HaoChuan Xu; Xizhe Zhang; Elliott Wen; Jing Sun; Hong Jia
• [77%] Robotics Refuse the Harm, Complete the Task via Graph-of-Rules Planning for LLM-Enabled Robots
  Ali Taheri; Alireza Taban; Qizhou Wang; Wanhua Li
• [75%] Robotics Program-Level Adversarial Co-Adaptive Self-Play for Robotic Security
  Leo Benaharon; Chi Zhang; Wei Zheng; Weifan Zhang; Yifan Wei
• [74%] CPS / other AquaSense-ICS: A Hybrid Real-Simulated Cyber-Physical Dataset and Leakage-Aware Benchmark for Smart Water Quality Monitoring and Attack Detection
  Amal Neji; Mohamed Fourati; Lamia Chaari Fourati
• [73%] Autonomous driving / vehicles A Secure dToF LiDAR SoC with Dual-Domain Fingerprinting and Event-Driven AFE Circuit Achieving Sensor-Level Attack Resilience
  Risa Nonaka; Ryoya Matsuno; Shota Nagai; Satomi Miyagi; Yuki Hayakawa; Ryo Suzuki; Kazuma Ikeda; Ozora Sako; Rokuto Nagata; Ryo Yoshida; Shimpei Ando; Wenlun Zhang; Kentaro Yoshioka
• [65%] Autonomous driving / vehicles SafeDriveVLA: Navigation-Conditioned World Model Dreaming for Conflict-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving
  Shaoyuan Xie; Zihan Zhang; Jingxuan Wang; Jiashu Qu; Xiaoqing Liang; Lingdong Kong; Junchi Lu; Henrik I. Christensen; Qi Alfred Chen
• [53%] Autonomous driving / vehicles Towards Effective and Transferable Physical Camouflage against Multi-View BEV-based 3D Perception in Autonomous Driving
  Linye Lyu; Jiawei Zhou; Daojing He; Yu Li
• [52%] Drones / UAV Sybil-Resilient Multi-Drone Exploration of Indoor and Confined Spaces
  Shyaam Mahesh; Aditya B Prakash; Rubal Sagwal; Avinash Gautam

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