@inproceedings{079aa34d26de4601b6ba26e6adc9ca64,
title = "Targeted attacks on teleoperated surgical robots: Dynamic model-based detection and mitigation",
abstract = "This paper demonstrates targeted cyber-physical attacks on teleoperated surgical robots. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the robot's control system to infer a critical time during surgery to drive injection of malicious control commands to the robot. We show that these attacks can evade the safety checks of the robot, lead to catastrophic consequences in the physical system (e.g., sudden jumps of robotic arms or system's transition to an unwanted halt state), and cause patient injury, robot damage, or system unavailability in the middle of a surgery. We present a model-based analysis framework that can estimate the consequences of control commands through real-time computation of robot's dynamics. Our experiments on the RAVEN II robot demonstrate that this framework can detect and mitigate the malicious commands before they manifest in the physical system with an average accuracy of 90%.",
keywords = "Cyber-physical systems, Malware, RAVEN II robot, Robotic Surgery, Targeted Attacks, Telerobotics",
author = "Homa Alemzadeh and Daniel Chen and Xiao Li and Thenkurussi Kesavadas and Kalbarczyk, {Zbigniew T.} and Iyer, {Ravishankar K.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2016 ; Conference date: 28-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1109/DSN.2016.43",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2016",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "395--406",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2016",
address = "United States",
}