Reconstructing Robot Operations via Radio-Frequency Side-Channel

09/21/2022

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by   Ryan Shah, et al.

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Connected teleoperated robotic systems play a key role in ensuring operational workflows are carried out with high levels of accuracy and low margins of error. In recent years, a variety of attacks have been proposed that actively target the robot itself from the cyber domain. However, little attention has been paid to the capabilities of a passive attacker. In this work, we investigate whether an insider adversary can accurately fingerprint robot movements and operational warehousing workflows via the radio frequency side channel in a stealthy manner. Using an SVM for classification, we found that an adversary can fingerprint individual robot movements with at least 96 accuracy, increasing to near perfect accuracy when reconstructing entire warehousing workflows.