Positioning Optimization of Drones using IMU and Securing UAV Communication by implementing Hybrid Cryptosystem

Abstract

The furtherance of technology in the field of robotics has paved way for the technological boom of drones. Prominently noted for their capacity to perform a variety of duties from shipping packages to military applications, drones have become a popular robotic gadget. To have automated functioning, swarms of drones must share their localization data to obtain obstacle's high accuracy locus. It be comes our utmost priority to secure the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications from third-party interference. In this paper, a novel approach of using inertial measurement unit (IMU) data for positioning optimization is introduced using robot operating system (ROS) simulation environment. The sensitive IMU values of UAV for communication are safeguarded by a hybrid cryptosystem including signature authentication using the RSA algorithm implemented in MATLAB and Python3.