Position Verification Systems for an Automated Highway System

Automated vehicles promote road safety, fuel efficiency, and reduced travel time by decreasing traffic congestion and driver workload. In a vehicle platoon (grouping vehicles to increase road capacity by managing distance between vehicles using electrical and mechanical coupling) of such automated vehicles, as in automated highway systems (AHS), tracking of inter-vehicular spacing is one of the significant factors under consideration. Because of close spacing, computer-controlled platoons with inter-vehicular communication—the concept of adaptive cruise control (ACC)—become open to cybersecurity attacks. Cyber physical (CP) and cyber attacks on smart grid electrical systems have been a significant focus of researchers. However, CP attacks on autonomous vehicle platoons have not been examined. This research surveys a number of models of longitudinal vehicle motion and analysis of a special class of CP attacks called false data injection (FDI) on vehicle platoons. In this kind of attack, the configuration of any CP system is exploited to introduce arbitrary errors to gain control over the system. Here, an n-vehicle platoon is considered and a linearized vehicle model is used as a test-bed to study vehicle dynamics and control, after false information is fed into the system.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=794
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28784
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Utah State University, Logan

  Utah Transportation Center
  Logan, UT  United States  84321

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Biswas, Bidisha
  • Gerdes, Ryan
  • Heaslip, Kevin
• Publication Date: 2015-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 101p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced vehicle control systems; Automated highway systems; Computer security; Intelligent vehicles; Traffic platooning; Transportation safety; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicle spacing
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01561007
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC-15-284
• Contract Numbers: MPC-435
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 24 2015 10:24AM