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MICAI 2018: Advances in Computational Intelligence pp 318–331Cite as

A Bio-Inspired Cybersecurity Schemeto Protect a Swarm of Robots

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Swarm robotics describes a multi-robot system characterized by the simplicity of its agents, homogeneous architecture, limited communication skills, local detection, execution of parallel tasks, robustness, scalability, flexibility and decentralized control. However, being a technology in development, the security and vulnerability of the swarm of robots against possible cybernetic attacks have been commonly overlooked. This is of major concern when executing mission-critical activities that inherently require an adequate management of security. In this work, a bio-inspired security mechanism applied to a swarm of robots is proposed. Through computer simulations, it is observed how the mechanism, when executing a homing towards a stationary landmark, allows the swarm of robots to identify abnormal behaviors, caused by a certain cyberattack; subsequently, it establishes a certain tolerance to it and allows to improve the level of availability that is required to continue executing the task at hand.

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This work was supported by IPN under Projects SIP-1894 and SIP-20180460. The first author gratefully acknowledge the support from the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) and IPN-PIFI BEIFI grant to carry out this work.

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    Alejandro Hernández-Herrera, Elsa Rubio Espino & Ponciano Jorge Escamilla Ambrosio

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Hernández-Herrera, A., Espino, E.R., Escamilla Ambrosio, P.J. (2018). A Bio-Inspired Cybersecurity Schemeto Protect a Swarm of Robots. In: Batyrshin, I., Martínez-Villaseñor, M., Ponce Espinosa, H. (eds) Advances in Computational Intelligence. MICAI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11289. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04497-8_26

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