自律型軍用車両のインシデント対応における強化学習の探求
Exploring reinforcement learning for incident response in autonomous military vehicles
強化学習を用いて、軍用無人車両へのサイバー攻撃に自律的に対応するエージェントを訓練し、簡単なシミュレーションから実車両まで適用可能であることを示した。
著者: Henrik Madsen, Gudmund Grov, Federico Mancini, Magnus Baksaas, Åvald Åslaugson Sommervoll
分類: cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Unmanned vehicles able to conduct advanced operations without human intervention are being developed at a fast pace for many purposes. Not surprisingly, they are also expected to significantly change how military operations can be conducted. To leverage the potential of this new technology in a physically and logically contested environment, security risks are to be assessed and managed accordingly. Research on this topic points to autonomous cyber defence as one of the capabilities that may be needed to accelerate the adoption of these vehicles for military purposes. Here, we pursue this line of investigation by exploring reinforcement learning to train an agent that can autonomously respond to cyber attacks on unmanned vehicles in the context of a military operation. We first developed a simple simulation environment to quickly prototype and test some proof-of-concept agents for an initial evaluation. This agent was then applied to a more realistic simulation environment and finally deployed on an actual unmanned ground vehicle for even more realism. A key contribution of our work is demonstrating that reinforcement learning is a viable approach to train an agent that can be used for autonomous cyber defence on a real unmanned ground vehicle, even when trained in a simple simulation environment.