The “Studying in the United Kingdom” project provided financial support for German and British students to stay abroad after Brexit. The funds was essentially used to enable OTH Amberg-Weiden students to take part in the annual summer school “International Perspectives on Cybercrime and Cybersecurity” at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow as well as further stays at the other Scottish partner universities (Abertay University in Dundee, University of Aberdeen). In addition, students from the above-mentioned Scottish universities received financial support if they took part in the annual security summer school in Amberg.
Wednesday, 22 Jun 2022
Drones have a great potential in the civilian section, but this potential is currently limited by the fact that drones cannot yet operate reliably (semi-) autonomously beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and furthermore it is not allowed. The primary goal of the research project “Airborne Data Collection on Resilient System Architectures” (ADACORSA) was to develop the technical components for drones that enable BVLOS flights. In flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs) it is essential to be able to check whether the information received is trustworthy or not. Imagine, for example, that an autonomously flying drone without contact to the operator receives a notification from another drone to initiate an emergency landing immediately – can this request be trusted? As part of the project, an authentication scheme and a trust management system was developed for the BVLOS use of drones in FANETs. At the end of the project, the experts concluded that this was the world’s first blockchain-based authentication procedure for drones.
Wednesday, 01 Jul 2020
The project “Intelligent Security for Electric Actuators and Power Converters in Critical Infrastructures” (iSEC) was funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy. Together with the two industrial partners, SIPOS Aktorik GmbH and Grass Power Electronics GmbH, we worked on security solutions specifically for embedded systems with limited resources. The products of both companies are used in critical infrastructures. The electric actuators for industrial valves from SIPOS Aktorik GmbH are used in power stations, sewage treatment plants and pumping stations, for example. Grass Power Electronics GmbH develops power electronic systems for electrical energy supply. The systems manage photovoltaic systems, battery storage and charging stations for electric vehicles, e.g., and connect the local power grids to the public power grid through intelligent feed-in management. The goal of the three-year research project was to develop comprehensive and resource-efficient security solutions for embedded systems and thus contribute to the protection of critical infrastructures. Based on a threat and risk analysis, various concepts with hardware and/or software solutions were initially created in order to estimate the achievable security level in each case. Specific solutions were then developed to ensure system integrity, user authentication and secure communication. The validation of the individual as well as the combination of the developed security measures, both by the project partners and by external project partners and external institutes rounded off the project.
Thursday, 01 Aug 2019
The AutoDrive project brought together an innovative pan-European ecosystem consisting of 61 partners representing leading semiconductor companies, vehicle manufacturers, electronic system integrators, renown research institutes, and SMEs. Key objective was the development of advanced electronic components and systems for autonomous vehicles to provide fail-operational functions using novel architectures with increased reliability to manage and balance complexity, cost, robustness, and flexibility. Safety and security are among biggest challenges of autonomous driving. The AutoDrive partners developed advanced fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational electronic components, systems, and architectures for highly and fully automated driving, providing the implementation of safety in nine demonstrators being evaluated in different cities and countries across Europe. As part of the AutoDrive project, attack scenarios for autonomous vehicles were first identified and analysed. In the spirit of security by design, a blockchain-based authentication procedure was then developed for use in Car-2-X communication.
Sunday, 01 Oct 2017
The FORMUS³IC project focussed on current problems in the field of information technology, including the challenges posed by multi- and many-core systems. The project investigated how these systems can be used in the automotive and avionics sectors. In this project, we analysed scheduling-based attacks on ECUs in vehicles and the use of lightweight cryptographic algorithms to secure in-vehicle communication.
Thursday, 01 Oct 2015