PrivShieldROS: An Extended Robot Operating System Integrating Ethereum and Interplanetary File System for Enhanced...

Area of Science:

• Robotics
• Cybersecurity
• Data Management

Background:

• Robotic operating systems (ROS) handle sensitive vision data in critical applications like security and healthcare.
• Existing blockchain solutions for ROS data security suffer from high latency and resource demands.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop a secure and efficient system for protecting vision sensor data within ROS.
• To address the limitations of current blockchain-based security approaches in robotics.

Main Methods:

• Introduced PrivShieldROS, an extended ROS integrating InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), blockchain, and HybridABEnc.
• Utilized IPFS for decentralized data availability and robustness.
• Implemented HybridABEnc for fine-grained access control.
• Employed blockchain for persistent storage of data content identifiers (CIDs).

Main Results:

• PrivShieldROS demonstrated improved performance in key metrics compared to existing blockchain-extended ROS.
• The system effectively enhances the confidentiality and security of vision sensor data.
• Experimental validation confirmed the system's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

• PrivShieldROS offers a robust solution for securing sensitive vision data in ROS.
• The integration of IPFS, blockchain, and HybridABEnc provides a scalable and efficient security framework.
• This approach advances secure data handling in privacy-critical robotic applications.