Graduation Semester and Year

2015

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Department

Electrical Engineering

First Advisor

Frank Lewis

Abstract

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that by the year 2020, the United States will have over 30,000 drones. Today, the fields of utilization of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are unlimited. UAVs can be used in hazardous military missions, since they exclude the risk factors involved in manned vehicles. The numerous sensors on board gather data related to the desired flight plan. This exposes UAVs to various vulnerabilities since they carry enormous information and raises safety issues and privacy concerns. Absence of manual control by a human operator over the UAV results in fraudulent information being fed and navigated to a different location by the attacker. On gaining control of the system, sensitive data can be accessed and misused. The objective of this research is to study, develop and implement various security, threat assessment and response systems on autonomous systems.

Disciplines

Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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