Resilience to cyber attacks is becoming increasingly important for connected and autonomous vehicle location systems. Radiolabs is strengthening its expertise in this area, and through the CYBORG project, awarded by the Cyber4.0 – Cybersecure Competence Center following a competitive bidding process, a new milestone has been reached in protecting data that impacts safety, traffic efficiency and even decarbonization.
Smart road applications and autonomous driving systems require high-integrity positioning data derived from data fusion algorithms to combine GNSS with IMUs, odometers, cameras and LiDAR sensors. CYBORG has developed and validated a cyber-secure architecture and appropriate techniques to ensure reliable vehicle positioning and continuous monitoring of on-board data for forensic analysis and third-party services. Specifically, CYBORG, leveraging Radiolabs’ P-CAR facility and the Crypto-Engine developed under the Shine-On project, has:
1) developed and tested a distributed cyber protection architecture for in-vehicle data encryption and digital signatures, focused on the specific use case of secure and high-precision vehicle localization;
2) implemented on a software platform an advanced architectural and algorithmic solution aligned with the principles of post-quantum cryptography;
3) developed a blockchain-based digital ledger to record the sequences of data streams exchanged between vehicle ECUs and in-vehicle systems.
A Security Audit Report has been performed by Drivesec, partner of the project and responsible for the remote penetration tests. The results of CYBORG have confirmed the expectations and turn useful also for the rail and maritime sectors, sharing with the automotive sector the same positioning requirements. Yet, CYBORG will contribute to enhance the capabilities of the P-CAR laboratory to assess the robustness of positioning and telecom solutions developed for the connected and autonomous vehicles.
