Tag Archives: Robotic Vehicles

RVDebloater: Mode-based Adaptive Firmware Debloating for Robotic Vehicles

Mohsen Salehi and Karthik Pattabiraman. To appear in the Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec), 2026. (Acceptance Rate: TBD). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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ARMOR: Attack-Resilient Reinforcement Learning Control for UAVs

Pritam Dash, Ethan Chan, Nathan P. Lawrence, Karthik Pattabiraman, To appear in the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’26). (Acceptance Rate: 38%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)

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Feed-Forward Controller-Based Recovery for Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, Karthik Pattabiraman. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). [ PDF ]
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RAVAGE: Robotic Autonomous Vehicles’ Attack Generation Engine

Pritam Dash and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 20.1%) [ PDF | Talk ]. (Code) Artifacts available, reviewed and reproducible.
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AutoPatch: Automated Generation of Hotpatches for Real-Time Embedded Devices

Mohsen Salehi and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM International Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 16.7%) [ PDF | Talk ] (code, arXIV version). Artifacts Available and Functional Badges
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SpecGuard: Specification Aware Recovery for Robotic Autonomous Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Pritam Dash, Ethan Chan and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM International Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 16.7%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code, Videos, arXIV version) Artifacts Available Badge
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Diagnosis-guided Attack Recovery for Securing Robotic Vehicles from Sensor Deception Attacks

Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Mehdi Karimibiuki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 21.9%) [PDF | Talk] (Code) (arXIV version)
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SwarmFuzz: Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms

Elaine Yao, Pritam Dash and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2023. (Acceptance rate: 20%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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PID-Piper: Recovering Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 16.5%). [ PDF | Talk, Talk Video ] (Code, PID-Piper Videos) Best Paper Award (1 of nearly 300 submissions).
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Stealthy Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Intrusion Detection Techniques

Pritam Dash, Mehdi Karimibuiki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM Journal on Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP). Acceptance Date: August 2020. [ PDF ]
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