Descrizione del progetto
Aprire la strada a soluzioni robotiche mobili per interni nella sanità
L’intelligenza artificiale e la robotica sono fondamentali per la trasformazione del settore sanitario. Ad esempio, possono migliorare la qualità delle cure dei pazienti riducendo al contempo le spese sanitarie. Al tempo stesso, tuttavia, i progressi in tali campi aprono le porte a nuovi tipi di minacce informatiche, rendendo molte organizzazioni riluttanti ad adottarli nel proprio luogo di lavoro. Il progetto RESPECT, finanziato dall’UE, mira a progettare e sviluppare strategie di difesa per il funzionamento sicuro, affidabile e rispettoso della privacy di soluzioni robotiche mobili per interni per applicazioni logistiche sanitarie. Per le attività previste è determinante la creazione di una rete intersettoriale europea di organizzazioni coinvolte in un programma di ricerca collaborativa, che lavorano insieme per raggiungere gli obiettivi descritti sopra.
Obiettivo
Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence hold a promise for the radical transformation of healthcare services. Besides, the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that robots are crucial allies during pandemics. Yet, the adoption of these technologies is impeded by concerns related to cybersecurity issues. The rise of security incidents is a timely reminder that not only the volume of attacks is increasing but their diversity is also expanding, posing a significant threat towards disrupting clinical care delivery. Ongoing research focuses on the use of robotics operating in healthcare spaces (surgical, service, logistics), while security aspects are not well covered in the research community.
RESPECT project objective is to create a sustainable European and inter-sectoral network of organisations working on a joint research programme aiming to design and develop concrete defense strategies to ensure secure, safe, resilient and privacy-preserving operation of indoor mobile robotics solutions for logistic applications in healthcare environments. Specifically the main research objectives of the project are: (i) Explore and identify system-specific cyber-physical weaknesses posing security, privacy, and safety threats, in autonomous mobile robots operating in a healthcare environment; (ii) Analyse surfaced vulnerability issues in conjunction with projected threats and propose defence measures and mitigation strategies towards safeguarding mobile robots operation. (iii) Define and standardize a minimal set of vulnerability testing procedures and guidelines leveraging and extending the Robot Vulnerability Scoring System for safe and autonomous robotic fleet management in a “safety-critical setting”. The project will be implemented through staff exchanges among different organizations with complementary expertise in cybersecurity, healthcare, cloud computing and robotics from 5 countries across EU promoting transfer of knowledge between industry and academia.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
- medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care services
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
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