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Sponsor: USDOT

PNT with Signals of Opportunity and Real-World Jammed and Spoofed Environments

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022

Principal Investigator

Zaher Kassas

Project Team

Ali Abdallah, Nadim Khairallah

Sponsor & Award Number

USDOT: GR121290
(Subcontract to The Ohio State University)

Areas of Expertise

Other

Related Publications

research report | Nov 2023

CARMEN Project 6: PNT with Signals of Opportunity and Real-World Jammed and Spoofed Environments

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Phd Dissertation | Dec 2023

Cellular signals for navigation 4g, 5g, and beyond

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Phd Dissertation | Jan 2024

Hardware/software co-design methodologies for efficient ai systems and applications

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Phd Dissertation | Sep 2024

Exploring novel security vulnerabilities and their safety implications in sensors and perception for autonomous systems

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Resilience and Validation of GNSS PNT Solutions

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023

Principal Investigator

Qi Alfred Chen

Project Team

Takami Sato

Sponsor & Award Number

USDOT: CHEN
(Subcontract to The Ohio State University)

Areas of Expertise

Other

Team Departmental Affiliation

Information and Computer Science

Related Publications

research report | Nov 2023

CARMEN Project 5: Resilience and Validation of GNSS PNT Solutions

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Understanding the Cybersecurity Risks of HATS Autonomy Stack in Commercial Settings

Status

In Progress

Project Timeline

August 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024

Principal Investigator

Qi Alfred Chen

Project Team

Takami Sato, Chi Zhang

Team Departmental Affiliations

Computer Science, Information and Computer Science

Project Summary

The promises of highly automated transportation systems (HATS) are clear and compelling: a path to zero roadway fatalities, low-cost mobility of people and goods, broadening access to transportation services. But, HATS will fail to gain the public’s trust if they are seen as uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks. Thus, it is imperative to proactively perform cybersecurity risk analysis for critical components in the latest HATS technology, especially the relatively new ones such as the AI-enabled vehicle autonomy, so that their potential cybersecurity problems can be sufficiently identified, understood, and ideally addressed before wide deployment. In this 1-year project period, our goal is to perform the first large-scale study of the cybersecurity risks to HATS autonomy stack from the commercial systems perspective. Specifically, while various prior works have studied the security vulnerabilities on the HATS autonomy stack (e.g., on critical HATS autonomy stack components such as perception, localization, prediction, planning, and control), almost all of them only focused on studying such security problems in academic settings, e.g., on open-source HATS autonomy models/systems released by and/or designed for academic research community. However, these models/systems are not directly used in any commercial products, which thus makes the impacts of these security problems on real-world commercial HATS systems unclear. A few recent works have considered performing evaluation against commercial HATS systems, but so far they are all limited to one single commercial product without systematically considering the representativeness of such a system, making the generalizability of their findings highly questionable. In this project, we thus aim at filling this critical research gap by performing the first large-scale study of existing security research in this problem space against real-world commercial HATS systems. In this 1-year period, we plan to target a few commercial HATS autonomy features that both have high accessibility in consumer products today (e.g., in common consumer vehicles) and also have high representativeness in the HATS autonomy stack security research area (e.g., those heavily studied by existing security research), for example the traffic sign recognition (TSR), automatic lane centering (ALC), and adaptive cruise control (ACC) features.

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