Maria Usova

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Maria Usova is a researcher focused on cybersecurity and information interaction within autonomous and robotic systems, particularly in the contexts of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and smart manufacturing. Her work addresses critical vulnerabilities in the communication and control layers of multi-agent systems. In her most cited paper (4 citations), she analyzes the security of information interaction within groups of UAVs, identifying their susceptibility to destructive information impacts—a pressing issue for civilian drone operations. She extends this expertise to the industrial domain, proposing models for secure message interactions within the Smart Factory concept (3 citations), tackling the challenge of organizing robot communication in cyber-physical systems. Additionally, Usova introduces a novel "police office" model for multi-agent robotic systems (3 citations), a dedicated framework for ensuring information security by monitoring and regulating agent behavior. Her contributions are foundational to developing resilient, secure architectures for next-generation autonomous swarms and industrial automation, directly addressing the growing need for robust cybersecurity in interconnected, intelligent systems.