DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/C6VB-KR73
Defense Date
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Electrical & Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Robert H. Klenke
Second Advisor
Ruixin Niu
Third Advisor
Carl R. Elks
Abstract
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) create security concerns as their roles expand in commercial, military, and consumer spaces. The need to secure these systems is recognized in the architecture for a Hierarchical, Embedded, Cyber Attack Detection (HECAD) system. HECAD passively monitors the communication between a flight controller and all its peripherals like sensors and actuators. It ensures the functionality of a UAS is within the set of defined behavior and reports all potential problems, whether the errors were caused by cyber attacks or other physical faults. A portion of the design for Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) devices on board a flight control system is developed on an FPGA device. A wide range of cyber attacks and other faults are checked in SPI HECAD, implemented with VHDL and verified through use of the Integrated Logic Analyzer tool.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-21-2020