Visible to the public SROS2: Usable Cyber Security Tools for ROS 2

TitleSROS2: Usable Cyber Security Tools for ROS 2
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsMayoral-Vilches, Victor, White, Ruffin, Caiazza, Gianluca, Arguedas, Mikael
Conference Name2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Date Publishedoct
Keywordsauthentication, Collaboration, Computational modeling, Human Behavior, human factors, middleware, Navigation, policy governance, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Robot Operating System, security, Service robots, usability
AbstractROS 2 is rapidly becoming a standard in the robotics industry. Built upon DDS as its default communication middleware and used in safety-critical scenarios, adding secu-rity to robots and ROS computational graphs is increasingly becoming a concern. The present work introduces SROS2, a series of developer tools and libraries that facilitate adding security to ROS 2 graphs. Focusing on a usability-centric approach in SROS2, we present a methodology for securing graphs systematically while following the DevSecOps model. We also demonstrate the use of our security tools by presenting an application case study that considers securing a graph using the popular Navigation2 and SLAM Toolbox stacks applied in a TurtieBot3 robot. We analyse the current capabilities of SROS2 and discuss the shortcomings, which provides insights for future contributions and extensions. Ultimately, we present SROS2 as usable security tools for ROS 2 and argue that without usability, security in robotics will be greatly impaired.
NotesISSN: 2153-0866
DOI10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982129
Citation Keymayoral-vilches_sros2_2022