Collaborative Attacks on Autonomous Vehicle Platooning

摘要

In this paper, we show that multiple, maliciously controlled vehicles can destabilize a vehicular platoon, to catastrophic effect, through local modifications to the longitudinal control law. We propose a systematic method that illustrates how multiple attackers can change their control configuration in tandem with each other in order to create a successful attack. We determine the ranges of the gains, that allow an attacker to violate the stability criteria at different positions in the platoon, based on the changes the other attacker initiated. Finally, we demonstrate the impact of the designed collaborative attack on the vehicular platoon through an example.