Altering UAV Flight Path by Threatening Collision
Author(s)
Advisor(s)
Editor(s)
Collections
Supplementary to:
Permanent Link
Abstract
The ongoing transformation of air traffic control
towards decentralized decision making based on
ADS-B information shared by neighboring traffic
will allow all aircraft and UAS in particular, to
automatically detect and resolve collisions. In this
work we highlight the importance of trustworthiness
in such distributed systems, showing that autonomous
aircraft can be forced into predetermined trajectories
when their precise position and velocity are available
to a potentially malicious craft. In other words,
malicious pursuer players (real or hoaxed) taking
advantage of shared data and collision avoidance
properties, can dictate evader agent trajectory, which
might not realize the threat at all. As shown by
numerical simulations and ground robot experiments,
combination of arcs and straight paths can be
achieved and be used to arbitrarily control the evader.
Sponsor
Date
2015-09
Extent
Resource Type
Text
Resource Subtype
Proceedings