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TTK4109 Guidance, Navigation and Control of Vehicles TK8109 Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control
Handbook of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics and Motion Control (T. I. Fossen), John Wiley & Sons, 2021 Lecture Notes on Adaptive Line-of-Sight Guidance Laws for 3-D Path Following of Underwater Vehicles
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Cybersecurity of Autonomous Vehicles

The research project on cybersecurtiy is dedicated to real-time encryption of feedback control and sensory signals. This includes cryptology, i.e., the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior, using stream-chiper algorithms, synchronization, and authentication methods. The goal is resilence against navigation spoofing and hijacking of unmanned autonomous vehicles.

Fig 1. Distributed guidance, navigation and control (GNC) system under attack by an adversary.
Fig 2. The Otter USV.

A cryptographic toolbox for feedback control systems containing C-style C++ implementations of the cryptographical algorithms has been made available as a GitHub repository:

https://github.com/pettsol/CryptoToolbox

All implementations have been verified by official test vectors, and are provided as-is. The toolbox is described in detail in https://www.mic-journal.no/ABS/MIC-2020-4-3.asp/

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