Keynotes

Embedded Ethics and Robotic Deception: Implications for Security

Professor Ronald C. Arkin

Mobile Robot Laboratory,
Georgia Institute of Technology
 

Recent research in Georgia Tech's Mobile Robot Laboratory has studied two widely disparate phenomena: ethical robotics and deceptive behavior in autonomous systems. This talk overviews our progress in both of these areas. First, we present an ethical architecture initially designed for use in military robotic systems that  draw upon the Laws of War and Rules of Engagement. We then consider how autonomous robots can determine not only when to deceive but how to deceive, using a cognitive model derived from interdependence theory. Finally we assess how either of  these methods, if successful in practice, can potentially have significant ramifications in how we view robotic systems from a security perspective. This research has been supported under grants from the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research.
 
Ronald Arkin is Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He serves as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Computing. During 1997-98, Professor Arkin was STINT visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2005-06, Prof. Arkin held a Sabbatical Chair at the Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory in Tokyo and then was a member of the Robotics Group at LAAS in Toulouse. Dr. Arkin's research interests include behavior-based reactive control, action-oriented perception, hybrid deliberative/reactive robotic architectures, robot survivability, multiagent systems, biorobotics, human-robot interaction, robot ethics, and learning in autonomous systems. He has over 170 technical publications in these areas.  Prof. Arkin has written a textbook entitled Behavior-Based Robotics, co-edited Robot Colonies, and a recent book  entitled Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots. Funding sources include the NSF, DARPA, U.S. Army,  Savannah River, Honda, Samsung, Draper, SAIC, NAVAIR, and ONR. Dr. Arkin is an Associate Editor for numerous journals and is Series Editor for the MIT Press book series Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents. Prof. Arkin serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, served on the  Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, is a founding co-chair of the IEEE RAS  Technical Committee on Robot Ethics, is co-chair of the Society's Human Rights and Ethics Committee, and served  on the NSF's Robotics Council. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of AAAI and ACM.

Secured Robot Identity and Mechatronic Security

Professor Wael Adi

Technical University of Braunschweig,
Germany
 

Secured robot identity is becoming a serious issue in many emerging modern robot applications. Robot security matters are still not intensively addressed in the public literature. A bio-inspired identity profile model for mechatronic entities similar to that of human biological and social identification profile is presented. Mapping the biological mutation concept and DNA chains properties on to a mechatronic system model is demonstrated. Several basic scenarios to achieve clone-resistant mechatronic systems are shown. As practiced in real human societies, behavior and operational profile attributes are successfully integrated as additional identification attributes in human societies. A similar multi-attribute model is shown to be helpful to achieve highly secure and resilient identification technology for mechatronic systems. Simplified identification mechanism linking electronic, mechanical and interaction attributes of a mechatronic system with its operational environment is shown to be a promising personalization and identification approach for robots and mechatronic systems. .
 
Wael Adi is Professor at the “Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering” (IDA) at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. His research activities include physical and mechatronic security, clone-resistant architectures, IPR protection for VLSI design cores, Robot security, Vehicular Security, e-Money, e-Voting and Error Correction technology. Since 1988, he was teaching Cryptography and Systems Security, Digital Design, Wireless Communication, Digital Networks, Channel Coding Techniques. He had an industrial leave for 10 years to the “Institute for Applied Microelectronics” IAM as director of applied research. He served more than 25 years in German industrial research and consultancy for electronic, vehicular and machine industry as SIEMENS, BOSCH, VOLKSWAGEN and many others. He also served in the 3rd Generation ETSI-European mobile system standardization on security and channel coding. He published more than 70 conference/journal papers. He is an inventor in more than 18 European/US patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Policy Based Authorisation

Professor David Chadwick

School of Computer Science,
University of Kent
 

Policy based (or rule based) authorisation systems differ from conventional access control systems which are typically based on a table of user IDs vs. access rights i.e. access control lists (ACLs). In large scale distributed systems such as grids and federated identity management systems, the resource holder typically does not know the IDs of all of the users and therefore cannot build an access control table based on user IDs. Even when IDs are replaced by groups or roles, this typically does not provide sufficient granularity or flexibility. Hence the need for policy based access control systems in which rules state the conditions under which different categories of users might be granted or denied access to different types of resources.
 
This talk will provide an overview of policy based authorisation systems and look at some of the latest research which is being undertaken by the Information Systems Security Research Group at the University of Kent. Current challenges include: validating user credentials which are issued by disparate authorities when the users have different user IDs at each of them, enforcing separation of duties, and enforcing data protection policies on data at it moves around the system.
 
David Chadwick is Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent and the leader of the Information Systems Security Research Group. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. His group are the creators of PERMIS (www.openpermis.org), an open source X.509 and SAML supported role based authorisation infrastructure which is part of the US NMI software suite. It is currently integrated with Globus Toolkit, Shibboleth, Apache and OMII-UK.
 
David has published widely, with over 140 research publications, 2 Internet RFCs, 4 OGF specifications and editor of 1 ISO standard. He specialises in Public Key Infrastructures, Privilege Management Infrastructures, Trust Management, Federated Identity Management and Privacy Management. He actively participates in standardisation activities, is the UK BSI representative to X.509 standards meetings, the chair of the Open Grid Forum OGSA Authorisation Working Group and a member of OASIS and the Kantara Initiative. He is currently the leader of WP7 (Identity Management, Authentication and Authorisation) in the €10million EC FW7 Integrated Project TAS3 (www.tas3.eu). Prior to this, he has been the PI in over 20 research projects including: MAITS, TrustHealth2, ICE-TEL, ICE-CAR, PERMIS, GUIDES, PKI Challenge, and TrustCoM.

Mini-hopping robots for search and rescue and security

Professor Paolo Fiorini

Dept of Informatics,
University of Verona,
Italy
 

After spending 15 years at NASA-JPL in the USA, Professor Fiorini returned to teach and perform research in native Italy. Paolo has almost 30 years of experience in robotics. He has brought important contributions in robotic manipulation, human-robot interfaces, teleoperation,motion planning in dynamic environments, planetary exploration, coordination of mobile robots, service robotics, etc. Prof Fiorini is leading research projects in various areas including medical robotics AccuRobAs, Virtual Abdomen, Haptics, cognitive robotics (Xpero), robot standards (RoSta, Penelope, etc. He has organized and chaired or co-chaired numerous conference and workshops, including the robotic summer school Paolo is also President of the Italian chapter of the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Among his more recent activities he was Program Chair of ICAR2009, International Conference on Advanced Robots, Munich, Germany and Program Co-Chair (for Aged-Care) at the The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Incheon, Korea, 16th~ 18th August 2009.

Tutorial: Unmanned Systems in Security Application

Isabella Panella

Salex Galileo,
UK
 

The tutorial will explore the following:
1) Overview of unmanned system application in security: Examples and Concept of operation
2) Issues in interoperability and interfaces between the unmanned systems and legacy systems
3) Requirements of Unmanned systems applications in Security;
4) Application of artificial intelligence methodologies on unmanned platforms: A System of Systems approach
5) The challenges of unmanned systems applications in security: certification; customers; real added value?
6) Conclusions and open discussion

Copy of the tutorial slides may be found here

After obtaining her bachelor in Aerospace Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia, Isabella Panella moved back to Europe and she started working for the defence industry in UK. She worked for 3 years in the flight control team in QinetiQ, research nonlinear flight control and unmanned aircrafts. Here, her interest in artificial intelligent rose and she started looking in Thales Aerospace Division to System Architecture Design for UAV Systems with artificial intelligence techniques applications, specifically working on sensor and mission management system. She is currently working as a technical consultant for SELEX Galileo, UK, and she keep on interacting with the research world to improve current technologies and systems. She is a senior member of AIAA and IEEE, and a member of IET and RAeS.