MRI: Development of High-Confidence Medical Cyber-Physical System Research Instrument with Benchmark Security Software

医用网络物理系统(MCPS)对安全性要求高，可靠性和安全性要求高。缺乏测试基准、合适的软硬件接口和易于测试的硬件平台，使得评估、验证和验证高置信度MCPS(HC-MCPS)的安全机制和可靠性具有挑战性。该项目旨在开发一个可配置、可扩展、开源、可靠、人在环的HC-MCPS试验台。HC-MCPS试验台将提高模拟攻击/防御模型的能力。它将为网络物理攻击、人工智能(AI)攻击、控制不稳定性探测器提供模拟平台，并允许研究人员进行多学科研究。该仪器将使研究人员能够使医疗网络物理系统更加可靠和安全，最终提高医疗保健质量。它将通过支持大量联邦和州资助的计算机科学、电气工程、机械工程、机器人远程外科和护理领域的项目，为EPSCoR州的本土机构的研究、培训和教学做出贡献。该工具还将在本国机构之外使用，以支持20多名合作者之间的网络协作操作和数据共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Medical cyber-physical systems (MCPS) require high reliability and security because they are safety critical. The lack of test benchmarks, suitable hardware-software interfaces, and easy-to-test hardware platforms makes it challenging to evaluate, verify, and validate the security mechanisms and reliability of high-confidence MCPS (HC-MCPS). This project aims to develop a configurable, extendable, opensource, reliable, human-in-the-loop HC-MCPS testbed. The HC-MCPS testbed will advance the ability to simulate attack/defense models. It will provide a simulation platform for cyber-physical attacks, artificial intelligence (AI) attacks, control instability detectors, and allow the researchers to conduct multidisciplinary research. The instrument will enable researchers to make medical cyber-physical systems more reliable and secure, ultimately improving the quality of healthcare. It will contribute to research, training, and teaching at the home institution in an EPSCoR state by enabling a large number of federally and state-funded projects in the areas of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotic Telesurgery, and Nursing. The instrument will also be used outside of the home institution to support cyber-enabled collaborative operations and data sharing among over twenty collaborators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.