TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed motion misbehavior detection in teams of heterogeneous aerial robots JF - Robotics and Autonomous Systems information Y1 - 2015 A1 - S. Martini A1 - D. Di Baccio A1 - F. Alarcòn-Romero A1 - A. Viguria-Jiménez A1 - L. Pallottino A1 - G. Dini A1 - A. Ollero KW - Embedded Control KW - Robotics AB -

This paper addresses the problem of detecting possible misbehavior in a group of autonomous mobile robots, which coexist in a shared environment and interact with each other and coordinate according to a set of common interaction rules. Such rules specify what actions each robot is allowed to perform in order to interact with the other members of the group. The rules are distributed, i.e., they can be evaluated only starting from the knowledge of the individual robot and the information the robot gathers from neighboring robots. We consider misbehaving those robots which, because of either spontaneous failures or malicious tampering, do not follow the rules and whose behavior thus deviates from the nominal assigned one. The main contribution of the paper is to provide a methodology to detect such misbehavior by observing the congruence of actual behavior with the assigned rules as applied to the actual state of the system. The presented methodology is based on a consensus protocol on the events observed by robots. The methodology is fully distributed in the sense that it can be performed by individual robots based only on the local available information, it has been theoretically proven and validated with experiments involving real aerial heterogeneous robots.

VL - 74 part A UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889015001360 U1 -

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