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Intrusion Detection in Robotic Swarms

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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.

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  1. Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

    Ian Sargeant & Allan Tomlinson

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  1. School of Computing, Computer Science Research Institute, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, UK

    Yaxin Bi

  2. The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

    Rahul Bhatia

  3. The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

    Supriya Kapoor

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Sargeant, I., Tomlinson, A. (2020). Intrusion Detection in Robotic Swarms. In: Bi, Y., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29513-4_71

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