Resilience of multi-robot systems to physical masquerade attacks
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Accepted manuscript
Date
2019-05-23
Authors
Wardega, Kacper
Tron, Roberto
Li, Wenchao
Version
Accepted manuscript
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Citation
Kacper Wardega, Roberto Tron, Wenchao Li. 2019. "Resilience of Multi-Robot Systems to Physical Masquerade Attacks." IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things. San Francisco, 2019-05-23 - 2019-05-23. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPW.2019.00031
Abstract
The advent of autonomous mobile multi-robot systems has driven innovation in both the industrial and defense sectors. The integration of such systems in safety-and security-critical applications has raised concern over their resilience to attack. In this work, we investigate the security problem of a stealthy adversary masquerading as a properly functioning agent. We show that conventional multi-agent pathfinding solutions are vulnerable to these physical masquerade attacks. Furthermore, we provide a constraint-based formulation of multi-agent pathfinding that yields multi-agent plans that are provably resilient to physical masquerade attacks. This formalization leverages inter-agent observations to facilitate introspective monitoring to guarantee resilience.