An Uncertainly-Aware Approach to Certifying Security Assurance for Autonomous Systems

Abstract

This report details our approach to enhance the trustworthiness of autonomous systems that need to adapt at run time to changes resulting from unexpected conditions, component failures, and enemy attacks. The primary objective of the project is to develop technology to express, codify, and automatically maintain operational system security assurance cases (SACs) for autonomous systems operating under uncertain conditions. Assurance cases have been accepted as a means for certifying the utility and satisfaction of trustworthiness, safety, and mission objectives. SACs will capture the trustworthiness and risk assessment chain of evidence from initial development through system evolution during runtime adaptation in response to environmental and system uncertainty with respect to security threats. The technologies will be demonstrated and evaluated on platforms of different scales using two case studies: 1) adaptive cruise control for autonomous rover and 2) integration of interaction-enabled testbeds to mimic search and rescue robot operation in disastrous situation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 29, 2020
Accession Number
AD1102721

Entities

People

  • Betty Chung
  • Rose Gamble

Organizations

  • University of Tulsa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Navigation
  • Risk Analysis
  • Software Development
  • Vulnerability
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control