NeTS: Small: Network Connectivity and Security for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles

NeTS：小型：协作自动驾驶车辆的网络连接和安全性

• 批准号: 1217908
• 负责人: John Shea
• 金额: $ 38万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1217908&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Network; Connectivity; Security

Systems of autonomous vehicles under cooperative control provide versatile platforms for a variety of tasks including environmental monitoring, search and rescue, intelligent transportation, and cooperative surveillance or attack. Performing these tasks requires control or optimization of the system's formation while maintaining network connectivity. Such systems are also potential targets for attack, and so techniques to secure the communications and control processes are important. In this project, techniques from computer networks are coupled with controls techniques to reconfigure the physical formation of a system of autonomous vehicles while maintaining network connectivity by "routing" vehicles through the formation to new positions. This approach is an enabling technology that also allows the network formation to be optimized to increase the efficiency of networked communication. New approaches to securing communication signals are coupled with the ability to transform the physical formation of the system to provide new approaches to achieving communication that is secure against eavesdroppers and robust to hostile jamming. The results of this project will be new algorithms, protocols, and controls techniques for formation control of systems of autonomous vehicles that are more flexible, efficient, and secure than the techniques currently available. These results will be widely applicable to future sensing/monitoring, homeland security, and defense operations involving autonomous systems of ground, air, surface, and underwater vehicles.

合作控制下的自动驾驶汽车系统为各种任务提供了多功能平台，包括环境监测，搜索和救援，智能运输以及合作监视或攻击。 执行这些任务需要控制或优化系统的形成，同时保持网络连接。 这样的系统也是攻击的潜在目标，因此确保通信和控制过程的技术很重要。 在该项目中，来自计算机网络的技术与控件技术相结合，以重新配置自动驾驶汽车系统的物理形成，同时通过通过编队将车辆的形成“路由”到新位置来维护网络连接。 这种方法是一种促成技术，还允许对网络形成进行优化，以提高网络通信的效率。 确保通信信号的新方法结合了转换系统的物理形成的能力，以提供新的方法来实现与窃听者相抵触的沟通，并为敌对的保障提供了强大的态度。 该项目的结果将是与当前可用技术更灵活，高效和安全的自动驾驶汽车系统形成系统的新算法，协议和控制技术。 这些结果将广泛用于涉及地面，空气，地面和水下车辆的自主系统的未来感应/监测，国土安全性以及国防操作。