This article provides an overview of the potential attacks that can impact connected vehicles (CV) technologies and highlights how a resilient control scheme can be effective to mitigate the effect of these attacks by allowing the system to safely operate with reduced performance. CVs endure several challenges that can occur due to cyberattacks with purposes of disrupting the performance of the connected vehicles system. To improve safety and security, advanced vehicular control systems must be designed to be resilient to cyberattacks. The attack detection and switching strategy is formulated as an MPC-like optimization problem, where the control variable is constrained to a specific strategy and applied in a receding horizon fashion. The choice of the cost function plays an important role in the performance of the system. The results of the switching strategy show that in comparison with the perfect case—in which the attacks are perfectly identified and the correct strategy selected immediately—there is approximately a 22 percent strategy improvement that could still be achieved by changing the switching strategy.
A Control Oriented Perspective for Security in Connected and Automated Vehicles
Pierluigi Pisu is an Associate Professor of Automotive Engineering in the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research, with a joint appointment in the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Pisu is the faculty-elected Leader of the Connected Vehicle Technology Faculty Research Group in the College of Engineering, Communication and Applied Science and the Leader of the Deep Orange 10 Program. He is the Director of the DOE GATE Hybrid Electric Powertrain Laboratory and the Creative Car Laboratory. Dr. Pisu has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University (2002) and a “Laurea” in Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests lie in the area of functional safety, security, control and optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems for next generation of high performance and resilient connected and automated systems with emphasis in both theoretical formulation and virtual/hardware-in-the-loop validation.
Jim Martin is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University. His research interests include broadband access, wireless networks, Internet protocols, and network performance analysis. Current research projects include heterogeneous wireless systems and DOCSIS 3.x cable access networks. He has received funding from NSF, NASA, the Department of Justice, BMW, CableLabs, Cisco, Comcast, Cox, Huawei, and IBM. Dr. Martin is leading an effort at Clemson University that is deploying advanced network infrastructure to support vehicular wireless communications. Dr. Martin received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Prior to joining Clemson, Dr. Martin was a consultant for Gartner, and prior to that, a software engineer for IBM.
Zoleikha Abdollahi Biron received the Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA in 2017, and the MSc. degree in control engineering from K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University. Her current research interests include control, estimation, diagnosis in connected vehicles and cyber-physical systems. She is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Pisu, P., Martin, J., and Biron, Z. A. (December 1, 2017). "A Control Oriented Perspective for Security in Connected and Automated Vehicles." ASME. Mechanical Engineering. December 2017; 139(12): S17–S20. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2017-Dec-10
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