Abstract

The flight and control capabilities of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increased significantly with recent research for civilian and commercial applications. As a result, these devices are becoming capable of flying ever greater distances, accomplishing flights beyond line of sight (BVLOS). However, given the need for safety guarantees, these flights are increasingly subject to regulations. Handover operations between controllers and the security of the exchanged data are a challenge for implementing these devices in various applications. This paper presents a secure handover architecture between control stations, using a Software in the Loop (SIL) model to validate the adopted strategies and mitigate the time between simulation and real systems implementations. This architecture is developed in two separate modules that perform the security and handover processes. Finally, we validate the proposed architecture with several drone flights on a virtual testbed.

Details

Title
A Drone Secure Handover Architecture validated in a Software in the Loop Environment
Author
Enio Vasconcelos Filho 1 ; Gomes, Filipe 2 ; Monteiro, Stéphane 2 ; Severino, Ricardo 2 ; Penna, Sergio 1 ; Koubaa, Anis 3 ; Tovar, Eduardo 1 

 CISTER – Research Centre in Real-time Embedded Computing Systems, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto , Rua Alfredo Allen 535, 4200-135 Porto , Portugal 
 CISTER – Research Centre in Real-time Embedded Computing Systems, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto , Rua Alfredo Allen 535, 4200-135 Porto , Portugal; PORTIC, Polytechnic Institute of Porto , Portugal 
 CISTER – Research Centre in Real-time Embedded Computing Systems, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto , Rua Alfredo Allen 535, 4200-135 Porto , Portugal; Prince Sultan University , Saudi Arabia 
First page
012083
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Jun 2023
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2830920682
Copyright
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.