Design and Implementation of Secure Control Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This paper describes secure control architecture for UAV control system for multiple operator environments. Multiple access of UAV is necessary because UAV must capture and process various data and UAV's functions become more complex and diverse. From this perspective, UAV control system needs to be secure because new control system will be exposed to multiple operators. To discuss this issue, the paper proposes new control architecture for UAV using RBAC (Roll Based Access Control). Generally, RBAC is applied and contributes to the security of computer systems, thus, we modified RBAC to apply to UAV control system. In this paper, we present how the modified RBAC model can be applied to UAV control systems and implement a prototype UAV control system based on the modified RBAC model.