When Coordination Becomes a Threat: Communication Attacks in LLM-Controlled Multi-Robot Systems

arXiv:2608.06830 · cs.RO, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

Zhen Huang, Zhihuang Liu, Weijia Shi, Yifan Yang, Weishang Wu, Zhiping Cai

cs.RO, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-10

Comments: 17 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables

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Terminology

• Planner — 55× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 12× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Provenance — 12× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Papers — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• National University of Defense Technology — 4× in this paper
• Claim Provenance and Verification — 3× in this paper
• Decentralized Multi-agent System — 3× in this paper
• Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Task Planning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Access Regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feedback Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generator — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 1× in this paper
• Knowledge Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Localization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Propagating Unsafe Actions in LLM Controlled Multi-Robot Collaboration via Single Robot Compromise
• IMR-LLM: Industrial Multi-Robot Task Planning and Program Generation using Large Language Models
• Easier Said Than Done: Unpacking Intent-Behavior Gap in Jailbreaking LLM-Based Robots
• SoK: Security and Privacy of Foundation-Model-Powered Robots
• Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
• Hierarchical LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework with Prompt Optimization for Multi-Robot Task Planning
• SafePlan: Leveraging Formal Logic and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Enhanced Safety in LLM-based Robotic Task Planning
• RoboSafe: Safeguarding Embodied Agents via Executable Safety Logic
• Multi-Agent Systems Execute Arbitrary Malicious Code
• On the Resilience of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration with Faulty Agents

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