Intrusion detection in robotic swarms

Abstract

Most research in robotic swarms assumes a benign operational environment for the swarm. This paper follows on from previous work on attacks on a robotic swarms and presents an analysis of how Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) may be applied to protect robotic swarms. This paper shows that due to the characteristics of a swarm, anomaly-based intrusion detection techniques cannot be applied. Signature based techniques however can be used. The idea of an IDS Swarm is introduced and it is demonstrated that a signature based IDS can used to protect a swarm in a hostile environment.