Poster: Address Resolution Protocol Based Attacks for Multi-Robot Systems

Abstract

Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular open-source middleware that provides a standard robotic application development framework using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. As the use of ROS becomes widespread, security vulnerabilities in ROS pose critical concerns for the next generation of robotics. For example, when ROS is used for deploying a multi-robot system (MRS), an attacker can target the weaknesses of ROS to compromise the complete multi-robot infrastructure. This work presents a proof-of-concept hardware demonstration of such an attack to examine how networking vulnerabilities can be exploited to compromise a ROS-based MRS. The experiment setup and demonstration code for this work are available at https://github.com/SPIRE-GMU/MRS_Security.git