Brake Control Apparatus Fraud Detection via Speed and Distance Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing in-vehicle network security technologies fail to effectively detect and handle fraudulent brake control instructions, particularly when attackers transmit frames that follow normal transmission cycles, leading to potential accidents.

Innovation Solution

A control apparatus and method that includes a receiver and a discriminator to validate brake control instructions based on the vehicle's speed and distance from obstacles, determining whether the instructions are fraudulent and invalidating them if they do not meet predetermined conditions, thereby preventing unauthorized brake actions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If message ID cycle registration is used to detect fraudulent frames, then detection capability is improved, but false detection occurs when attackers transmit frames following normal cycles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefraudulent frame detection accuracyVSAvoidfalse detection rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The detection mechanism is segmented into multiple independent checks: message ID cycle verification, transmission timing analysis, and content validation. By dividing the detection process into separate modules, the system can identify fraudulent frames through multiple pathways while reducing false positives from any single method.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs partial validation by checking only critical parameters (message ID, timing, content) rather than requiring complete frame analysis. This selective approach allows rapid detection of obvious fraud while avoiding false alarms from minor variations in normal communication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

2Reliability

If comprehensive frame validation is performed, then security is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork securityVSAvoidframe processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary validation checks on incoming frames before full processing. Critical parameters such as message ID format, timing constraints, and content integrity are verified upfront, allowing fraudulent frames to be rejected quickly without undergoing complete analysis, thus reducing overall processing time while maintaining security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Different validation depths are applied to different frame types and sources. High-priority frames from trusted sources undergo minimal validation, while frames from untrusted sources or with suspicious characteristics receive comprehensive checking. This localized quality approach optimizes processing time based on actual security needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11247694B2Control apparatus, control system, control method, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.02.15 PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYST CO LTD
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AI summary

A control apparatus includes a controller, a receiver and a discriminator. The receiver, in operation, receives an instruction for controlling a brake of a movable-body apparatus. The discriminator, in operation, determines, in response to the instruction being received by the receiver, whether or not the instruction is fraudulent based on whether or not a speed of the moving body and a distance between the moving body and an obstacle satisfies a predetermined condition for invalidating the instruction.