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| Keynote | Title | Abstract | Short Bio |
| Kimon Valavanis - Director of Unmanned Systems Research Institute of the University of Denver (USA) | Unmanned Aviation: Challenges in Design for Autonomy and Integration into the National Airspace | Unmanned Aviation in general and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have seen unprecedented levels of growth during the last two decades; projections and expectations for future utilization center on a very wide spectrum of civilian/public domain applications, spanning emergency response, environmental monitoring, early fire detection and forest protection, to name but a few such applications. However, before timely, orderly and eventually complete integration into civilian airspace, it is essential that R&D at least in the areas of design for autonomy, navigation, robust and fault-tolerant control, sense-detect-and-avoid/see-and-avoid systems for mid-air collision avoidance, UAV safety and reliability, reaches maturity and readiness for complete implementation. This talk focuses at first on the design for autonomy framework, the transition from the ‘human-in-the-loop’ to the ‘human-on-the-loop’ concept that is coupled with the much needed reduced operator workload, followed by a comprehensive and modular UAS control architecture aiming at facilitating software developments regardless of specific hardware. Next, a generalized framework is presented for (nonlinear, linearized and linear) controller design for unmanned aircraft including a methodology to accommodate in real-time rotorcraft main/tail rotor failures resulting in helicopter safe landing. A scalable sense-detect-and-avoid system (SDAA) is discussed based on a combination of long- / short- range radar sensors, which is capable of simultaneously detecting and identifying multiple threats. This is patented technology that has been licensed for evaluation purposes. Moving forward, and considering that Personal Air Vehicles (PAVs) is not such an ‘unthinkable’ goal, an integrated methodology to build and test Circulation Control Based fixed-wing UAVs (taking advantage of the Coanda effect) is presented, which allows for enhanced performance, reduced take-off runway, delayed stall and increased payload during cruise flight. The talk concludes with a methodology to integrate unmanned aviation into the national airspace based on establishing Equivalent Levels of Safety (ELOS), probability of failure of unmanned aircraft and kinetic energy upon impact. | Dr. Kimon P. Valavanis received his PhD degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently John Evans Professor and Chair of the ECE Department, D. F. Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Denver, and Director of the Unmanned Systems Research Institute. He holds a Guest Professorship in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He was invited through the European Union PhD Research Program in Italy to teach Robotics and Unmanned Systems at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dell’ Automazione, Universitά Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, and through the PhD – Excellence Program in Italy to teach UAV navigation and control at the Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale. He has offered the same course at the South China University of Technology. He was invited by the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education of the Hellenic Republic to evaluate Greek Universities, and by the European Union as evaluator of IP/STREP projects of the 7th European Union Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development–Information and Communication Technologies-Cognitive Systems and Robotics. He is an appointed Scientific Project Reviewer by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia and reviewer of research projects evaluated by the Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise. He has graduated 35 PhD students and more than 100 M.Sc. students. He has attracted and has helped attracting more than $50 M in research funds from Federal and State agencies, industry and the private sector. While in Europe, he was funded by the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology, the European Union, industry, and from the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology. His research interests span Unmanned Systems, Distributed Intelligence Systems, Robotics and Automation. He has published close to 400 book chapters, technical journal/transaction, referred conference papers, invited papers and technical reports. He has authored/co-authored/edited 18 books, including: On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System: Issues, Challenges, Operational Restrictions, Certification, and Recommendations, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2012; Linear and Nonlinear Control of Small Scale Unmanned Rotorcraft, Springer, 2012 (translated into Chinese); Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Springer, 2015, also translated into Chinese – a 2nd Edition will be published by Springer in 2017; Foundations of Circulation Control Based Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft: A Comprehensive Methodology from Concept to Design and Experimental Testing, and, Modeling, Navigation and Control of a Small-Scale Flybarless Unmanned Rotorcraft, both to be published by Springer in 2017. Dr. Valavanis served as Editor-in-Chief of the Robotics and Automation Magazine from 1996-2005, and since 2006, of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer. He serves as co-chair/chair of the Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technical Committee since 2008. He founded/launched the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, which he runs annually. He was Distinguished Speaker in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, he is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the U.K Institute of Measurement and Control, Senior Member of IEEE and Fulbright Scholar. |
| Mohamed Kaâniche - Research Director at CNRS and Professor at the Tolouse Institute of Technology (France) | Automotive embedded systems security: A language based intrusion detection approach | The increase in connectivity and complexity of modern automotive networks opens new opportunities to potential attackers to perform different types of malicious actions. Such attacks might lead to undesirable consequences on the safety of the passengers and of the vehicles surrounding environment. This talk will first describe various threats that can target a car’s embedded systems and provides a classification of the possible attack scenarios.. In order to complement the preventative security means that aim at stopping an attacker from accessing the embedded network, we present an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) fit for vehicular networks. Leveraging the high predictability of embedded automotive systems, we use language theory to elaborate a set of attack signatures derived from behavioral models of the automotive ECUs (Electronic Control Units) in order to detect a malicious sequence of messages transiting through the internal network. After a formal description of the IDS, we present a first batch of experiments aimed at validating the proposed approach and assessing its performances. | Mohamed Kaâniche has been at LAAS-CNRS since 1988 where he currently holds a position of "Directeur de Recherche CNRS", heading the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance Group since april 2013. From March 1997 to February 1998, he was a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Coordinated Research on High Performance Computing Group. His research addresses the dependability, security and resilience assessment of hardware and software fault tolerant computer systems and critical infrastructures, using analytical modeling and experimental measurement techniques. He has published more than 100 papers on these topics in International Journals and Conferences, and co-authored two books on dependable computing. He has been involved in several national and European research projects and acted as a consultant for companies in France and as an expert for the European Commission. He has contributed to several contracts with major industrial partners in critical embedded systems (e.g., EADS-Airbus, Renault, Thales, etc.). He is also involved in the Aerospace Valley Cluster in Toulouse, co ordinating in particular the Strategic Activity Domain on Air Transportation Safety and Security. |
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Philippe QUERE
Title: Progress and possibilities of concrete links between functional safety and cybersecurity
Abstract: In automotive, functional safety standard, ISO 26262, is official since the end of 2011. For its revision actually in final stage, some sentences were added to draw the attention on necessary interfaces with cybersecurity.
But as no automotive cybersecurity standards were existing, more precision interfaces could not be highlighted.
Today, we are developing this cybersecurity standard, namely the ISO/SAE 21434.
With the first drafts coming out of the drafting team, it is now a good time to start working on more precise on the potential interfaces.
Short Bio: Philippe Quéré is expert on cybersecurity process and conformity. He is involved among other topics on ISO/SAE 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering.
Previously he has been involved for 10 years in the development of ISO 26262 Functional Safety standard.
He takes part in the discussions on cross domain comparison of safety standards in a working group of Embedded France. As a computer science engineer with experience in embedded software, he joined Renault in 2005 in “advanced engineering” to work on software development subjects. He took the lead of the team in 2010. And then led an Alliance convergence project with Nissan. Before joining Renault Philippe has been involved in the development of embedded software for the consumer electronics and the automotive industry, working for car suppliers and manufacturers via subcontracting.
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