To skeptics who’ve seen one too many meltdowns arising from too-good-to-be-true finance market innovation, blockchain technology has earned a suspicious reputation through its role in cryptocurrency schemes. But blockchain may benefit from positive rehabilitation if – as researchers now suggest – it can play a role in thwarting attempted hacks of automated drone fleets.
A new study published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics explores the use of the tech in fending off attempted attacks of robotic systems seeking to create chaos – or worse. In their mouthful of a paper, “Bilinear Dynamical Networks Under Malicious Attack: An Efficient Edge Protection Method,” researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Polytechnic University of Madrid describe how integration of blockchain in navigation systems of autonomous drones or self-driving road vehicle fleets could fend off attempted hacks. The very function of the tech that makes it so…
