RoboSec: ROS Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity research on ROS (Robot Operating System)

Current Project

SoK (Systemization of Knowledge) paper on ROS Cybersecurity

Dataset Info

Search String

("ROS" OR "Robot Operating System") AND ("cybersecurity" OR "attack" OR "threat" OR "vulnerability")

Inclusion Criteria

Year: 2016-2026 Database: IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Springer Nature USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, NDSS Publication Type: Conferences, Journals Peer-reviewed venues

Exclusion Criteria

IEEE Access, MDPI, Not ROS, Not Cybersecurity (Security Intelligence/Surveillance Applications, Military security, Human / Physical security/safety/reliability, Privacy)

#(ROS + Cybersecurity) papers (Title + Abstract screening):

ACM : 11/862, IEEE : 71/366, Springer : 16 /1000

Current analysis results:

Categorized papers based on S (Spoofing), T (Tampering), R (Repudiation), I (Information Disclosure), D (Denial of Service), E (Elevation of Privilege), IsThreat (presents attacks, discusses vulnerabilities), IsMitigation (proposes detection, mitigation, security features)

ToDo

-Collect ROS+cybersecurity papers from USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, NDSS -Find out attack names described in the selected papers.

Related Work

SoK: Cybersecurity Assessment of Humanoid Ecosystem

SoK: Come Together – Unifying Security, Information Theory, and Cognition for a Mixed Reality Deception Attack Ontology & Analysis Framework

ROS 2 Robotic Systems Threat Model

ROS Index

Presentation Slides

Summary