security

We are very happy that our two submitted papers have been accepted at the International Conference on Robotic Computing 2019. “I will present our paper on Security considerations in modular mobile manipulation”. Marc Pichler will present our joint work with the Software Engineering Research Group at the Alpen-Adria Unversity Klagenfurt titled “Can I depend on you? Mapping the dependency and quality landscape of ROS packages”. See you in Naples.

Mobile manipulation will play an essential role in future production's intralogistics. In addition, it can be assumed that location-independence of manipulation will greatly contribute to flexible production and higher efficiency in robot use. …

The increasing impact of robotics on industry and on society will unavoidably lead to the involvement of robots in incidents and mishaps. In such cases, forensic analyses are key techniques to provide useful evidence on what happened, and try to …

IROS 2018 Recently, we have been at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. I have given a talk in the SROS2 tutorial. Sebastian Taurer has presented our paper and concept for a secure Black Box for intelligent robots.

In this talk, I give a short introduction into security fundamentals and go into depth on security issues in ROS1 and how they can be exploited.

In the beginning of October, I have given a talk on ROS security in course of the IROS tutorial Securing Robots with SROS2. To better demonstrate how vulnerable ROS1 is, we have prepared a video that demonstrates how our ROSPenTo tool is used to manipulate a MiR-100 robot. We exploit the insecurity of ROS running on the MiR to inject false movement commands. There is also a second video showing the same procedure in simulation.

As modern robots become more intelligent, also their use will broaden in public and professional areas. While the aim is to make robots beneficial to humans and society, using those complex machines in complex environments will eventually lead to …

Future robotic systems will be situated in highly networked environments where they communicate with industrial control systems, cloud services or other systems at remote locations. In this trend of strong digitization of industrial systems (also …