A Control Oriented Perspective for Security in Connected and Automated Vehicles

ZOLEIKHA ABDOLLAHI BIRON POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING CLEMSON UNIVERSITY A dvanced connectivity features in today’s smart vehicles are giving rise to several promising intelligent transportation technologies. Connected vehicles are one such technology where a set of vehicles can communicate with each other and the infrastructure via dedicated communication networks. Connected vehicles have the potential to improve the traffic throughput, minimize risk of accidents and reduce vehicle energy consumption. However, despite these promising features, vehicular communication networks endure several challenges from reliability and security perspectives. These challenges can occur due to cyberattacks with purposes of disrupting the performance of the connected vehicles system. In order to improve safety and security, advanced vehicular control systems must be designed to be resilient to cyberattacks. This article describes a resilient control architecture that consists of several control strategies for different network attacks, and a decision-making system to select the best countermeasure.