A critical review of communications in multi-robot systems

J Gielis, A Shankar, A Prorok - Current robotics reports, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarizes the broad roles that communication
formats and technologies have played in enabling multi-robot systems. We approach this …

A systems and control perspective of CPS security

SM Dibaji, M Pirani, DB Flamholz… - Annual reviews in …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The comprehensive integration of instrumentation, communication, and control into physical
systems has led to the study of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), a field that has recently …

Managing byzantine robots via blockchain technology in a swarm robotics collective decision making scenario

V Strobel, E Castelló Ferrer, M Dorigo - 2018‏ - dspace.mit.edu
While swarm robotics systems are often claimed to be highly fault-tolerant, so far research
has limited its attention to safe laboratory settings and has virtually ignored security issues in …

Blockchain technology secures robot swarms: A comparison of consensus protocols and their resilience to byzantine robots

V Strobel, E Castelló Ferrer, M Dorigo - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Consensus achievement is a crucial capability for robot swarms, for example, for path
selection, spatial aggregation, or collective sensing. However, the presence of …

Graph-theoretic approaches for analyzing the resilience of distributed control systems: A tutorial and survey

M Pirani, A Mitra, S Sundaram - Automatica, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As the scale of distributed control systems over networks increases and interactions
between different subsystems become more sophisticated, questions of the resilience of …

A deep learning approach to IoT authentication

R Das, A Gadre, S Zhang, S Kumar… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At its peak, the Internet-of-Things will largely be composed of low-power devices with
wireless radios attached. Yet, secure authentication of these devices amidst adversaries …

Beyond robustness: A taxonomy of approaches towards resilient multi-robot systems

A Prorok, M Malencia, L Carlone, GS Sukhatme… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
Robustness is key to engineering, automation, and science as a whole. However, the
property of robustness is often underpinned by costly requirements such as over …

Reinforcement learning–based framework for whale rendezvous via autonomous sensing robots

N Jadhav, S Bhattacharya, D Vogt, Y Aluma… - Science robotics, 2024‏ - science.org
Rendezvous with sperm whales for biological observations is made challenging by their
prolonged dive patterns. Here, we propose an algorithmic framework that codevelops …

Robot Operating System 2: The need for a holistic security approach to robotic architectures

V DiLuoffo, WR Michalson… - International Journal of …, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
It is no secret that robotic systems are expanding into many human roles or are augmenting
human roles. The Robot Operating System is an open-source standard for the robotic …

Characterizing trust and resilience in distributed consensus for cyberphysical systems

M Yemini, A Nedić, AJ Goldsmith… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work considers the problem of resilient consensus, where stochastic values of trust
between agents are available. Specifically, we derive a unified mathematical framework to …