CASPIAN JOURNAL

MANAGEMENT AND HIGH TECHNOLOGIES

ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION SECURITY OF SWARM ROBOTICS IN THE PROCESS OF SCALING THE NUMBER OF AGENTS

Read Petrenko Vyacheslav I., Tebueva Fariza B., Pavlov Andrey S., Struchkov Igor V. ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION SECURITY OF SWARM ROBOTICS IN THE PROCESS OF SCALING THE NUMBER OF AGENTS // Caspian journal : management and high technologies. — 2022. — №2. — pp. 92-109.

Petrenko Vyacheslav I. - North Caucasian Federal University, Stavropol, Russian Federation

Tebueva Fariza B. - North Caucasian Federal University, Stavropol, Russian Federation

Pavlov Andrey S. - North Caucasian Federal University, Stavropol, Russian Federation

Struchkov Igor V. - North Caucasian Federal University, Stavropol, Russian Federation

The use of swarm robotic systems (SRS) in complex applied problems can significantly increase the efficiency of solving such problems. At the same time, the functioning of the SRS in an aggressive environment, including in the face of opposition from the enemy, necessitates information security (IS), which is especially important for strategic facilities. The main IS research in the SRS is usually aimed at adapting the methods of providing IS for various types of systems. However, SRS, as one of the types of group robotics, have a number of differences and additional requirements for providing information security. Additional requirements are due to the critical nature of the potential damage in the implementation of various attack scenarios. One of the topical areas of IS SRS is the issue of countering attacks that do not have explicit signs. As part of solving this issue, the main attention is paid to the task of detecting and identifying malicious agents in the process of system operation by analyzing the behavior of agents and determining the trust indicator. At the same time, the issue of authentication and authorization of SRS agents remains little studied, which indicates the absence of a comprehensive solution that allows not only to timely detect the fact of an attack and identify malicious system agents, but also reduce the likelihood of malicious agents infiltrating a functioning system. In this paper, a generalization of known results in the field of design and development of SRS is carried out, a generalized model of SRS operation is presented, and an analysis of SRS applications is carried out, as a result of which a class of spatially distributed problems is identified. This class of tasks is characterized by dispersed agents in such a way that the capabilities of on-board telecommunication devices do not provide a stable information exchange between agents in the process of performing tasks. Also, this class of tasks implies the possibility of increasing the complexity of the task (for example, increasing the workspace), which requires the involvement of new agents to maximize the efficiency of task execution. Based on the results obtained, an analysis of SRS vulnerabilities was carried out when performing spatially distributed tasks, generalized models of threats and an intruder of SRS IS were formulated, taking into account the properties characteristic of systems of this type, with the main emphasis on the scalability property of SRS. A quantitative assessment of the impact of embedded malicious agents on the result of the functioning of the SRS was carried out. The direction of further research is substantiated, which will allow organizing complex information protection in SRS together with existing solutions, thereby increasing the level of SRS IS under the influence of malicious agents.

Key words: swarm robotic systems, information security, introduction of malicious agents, tasks allocation