Robot Secured Wireless Authentication Using Look-Up Table Based Coding

Mahmoud Abu-A'Ra

doi:10.5539/mas.v12n4p193

Abstract

Securing restricted areas is a major concern for sensitive institutes, like military or research labs. Most security measures rely on having some of the biometrics that human beings possess to identify the user and grant access permissions. Yet, with the wide spread of robotic systems and avatars, these entities need to be authenticated as well, since they might require access to such facilities, hence, the need to provide security measures that can handle non-biological entities with high levels of security and that is not vulnerable to hacking is becoming essential.In this research we propose a novel and unique system for encoding the passcode that is known only to the authorized user using a specially designed look-up table. The system’s hardware requires reconfiguring doors’ security modules to have Near Field Communication (NFC) initialized inside them, and have the Robot initialized with the same hardware, and a wireless controller for the NFC will be given to the operator. The hardware has low-cost, and is easy to use since it is considered as plug and play module. XBEE was adopted as a wireless communication module between the operator and the robot in order to wirelessly connect to an NFC chip that is installed (as plug and play) on any Robotic system.

Highlights

Robots are increasing equipped with high technology integrated into them these days, they still lack to biometrics that human beings have
A wireless controlled Robot working in a restricted area such as military HQ or an airport, might be required to provide biometric authentication to access areas with restricted access, and by nature; it is really hard and inefficient for the Robot to physically the access door’s security module and start typing access password like a human, or provide any other biometric security authentication measure
Authentication of robots is becoming an urgent issue for several applications, the proposed system in this research suggests reconfiguring doors’ security modules to have an Near Field Communication (NFC) adapter plugged into the door opening mechanism, while the robot is equipped with a similar adapter

Summary

Introduction

Robots are increasing equipped with high technology integrated into them these days, they still lack to biometrics that human beings have. Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is a very efficient and widely used technique for entities communication (Mohanalakshmi and Arun, 2015) It has been used by many applications to replace holding cards for payment (Ghosh et al, 2017), card-less personal data retrieval systems (Sethia, et al, 2014), and mas.ccsenet.org. Several techniques and modules were developed to secure the transmission media and channels of the messages exchanged between robots (or robot and controller), like the research of (Champaty et al, 2016) that used XBEE and Bluetooth communication protocols to secure control of wheelchairs, others combined ATmega and XBee-Based wireless communication (Kioumars et al, 2014) for secured component-based health data gathering from databases and warehouses, and monitoring of changes done on these data

System Overview

Base Sender

Robot Receiver

Door Authenticator

Conclusion and Future Work