By Shraddha Sankhe, Texas A&M University College of Engineering
Texas A&M University researchers have developed an intelligent transportation system prototype designed to avoid collisions and prevent hacking of autonomous vehicles. Modern vehicles are increasingly autonomous, relying on sensors to provide information to automatically control them. They are also equipped with internet access for safety or infotainment applications making them vulnerable to cyberattacks. This will only multiply as society transitions to self-driving autonomous vehicles in which hackers could gain control of the sensors, causing confusion, chaos and collisions.
Although autonomous vehicles are essentially large computers on wheels, securing them is not the same as securing a communication network that connects desktop computers and smartphones to large geographical areas due to the roles that the sensors and actuators play in the physical layer of the network.
Working in the Texas A&M’s Cyberphysical Systems Laboratory, Dr. P.R.Kumar, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with graduate students Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and Woo-Hyun Ko, have applied the theory of dynamic watermarking of sensors in autonomous vehicles to prevent malicious attacks.
Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students from across the state will visit campus this weekend for a Texas-sized science and engineering competition.
Texas A&M Engineering and the Texas A&M Semiconductor Institute will soon launch multiple programs and initiatives to bolster the semiconductor industry.
Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students from across the state will visit campus this weekend for a Texas-sized science and engineering competition.