An emerging threat: eve meets a robot

  • Authors:
  • Kahraman D. Akdemir;Deniz Karakoyunlu;Taskin Padir;Berk Sunar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

  • Venue:
  • INTRUST'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Trusted Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this work, we study the emerging security threats in a quickly proliferating field: robotics. The next generation robots embody most of the networking and computing components we normally use for everyday computing. Thus, the next generation robots virtually inherit all of the security weaknesses we are struggling with today. To make things worse, vulnerabilities in robots are much more significant, as they physically interact with their surroundings which include human beings. In this paper, we first provide a classification of potential physical attacks on robots. In addition, we outline a concrete active attack and propose a countermeasure.