Developing knowledge-based security-sense of networked intelligent robots

Abstract

Distributed processing capabilities of robotic-applications using state-of-the-art component-based middleware and mobile-agent software technologies are continuously helping to develop more powerful intelligent robots. These application development frameworks provide several attractive conceptual solutions for network-based operations, however, these benefits cannot be realized unless the appropriate security mechanisms are in place. In this paper, this important issue is addressed in a systematic way: firstly, by analyzing the key limitations of traditional security models, the new security requirements for agent-based networked robots are pointed out and secondly, an effective defense mechanism is devised by constructing a knowledge-based security-aware robot control model. The main contributions of this work are, to address the security problem in a knowledge-based approach and to show the roles and mechanisms of the proposed security architecture. The feasibility of our approach is examined through a case study on development of robot security-sense using Linux-based reliable security-tools. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.