GNSS Spoofing Detection: Guard against automated ground vehicle attacks

February 23, 2023  - By , and
Figure 1: The UT RNL has developed a multi-modal ground-vehicle-mounted integrated perception platform call the Sensorium. It houses three different types of IMU, two triple-frequency GNSS antennas, three radar sensors and two cameras.
Figure 1: The UT RNL has developed a multi-modal ground-vehicle-mounted integrated perception platform call the Sensorium. It houses three different types of IMU, two triple-frequency GNSS antennas, three radar sensors and two cameras.

FUTURE WORK

The results from our work are promising. It would be beneficial to collect even more data with the Sensorium to strengthen the empirical model.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The work described in this article was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Transportation and by the Army Research Office. The views and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Office or the U.S. government. This article is based on the paper “Carrier-phase and IMU based GNSS Spoofing Detection for Ground Vehicles” presented at ION ITM 2022, the 2022 International Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation, Long Beach, California, Jan. 25–27, 2022.

  • Zachary Clements (BS, Electrical Engineering, Clemson University) is a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin, and a member of the UT Radionavigation Laboratory.
  • James Yoder (BS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin) is a guidance, navigation and control engineer at SpaceX and an alumnus of the UT Radionavigation Laboratory.
  • Todd Humphreys (BS, MS, Electrical Engineering, Utah State University; PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin, where he directs the Radionavigation Laboratory.

About the Author: Zachary Clements

Zachary Clements (BS, Electrical Engineering, Clemson University) is a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin, and a member of the UT Radionavigation Laboratory.

About the Author: James Yoder

James Yoder (BS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin) is a guidance, navigation and control engineer at SpaceX and an alumnus of the UT Radionavigation Laboratory.

About the Author: Todd E. Humphreys

Todd Humphreys (BS, MS, Electrical Engineering, Utah State University; PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin, where he directs the Radionavigation Laboratory.