History

Last updated 5/8/2017

We are looking into various critical cyber security problems. Recently (since Fall 2014) we have been focusing on UAS/drone security and conducted a series of research projects.

We started working on UAS related projects in June 2014 after UH became a part of one of the 6 FAA test sites. The main focus of this research is to take advantage of open-source ArduPolit system to build new applications and further secure UAS systems and applications. 

With the guidance of two external experts, we first focus on 3DR Pixhawk flight control hardware, and build our own first UAS in EE396 Fall 2014/Spring 2015.(Joseph Yokoi and Alexander Lee)

We also used software defined radio to investigate possibility of attacking UAS communication in Fall 2014.(Bryant Lee). We further explored the possibility to break the RF control in EE609 Class Project and EE396 Spring 2015 (Andrew, Jeremy Young, Michael Spencer, and Gilbert Yim)

In the meantime, we started utilizing OpenCV to build automatic face-recognition. (Kunliang Xiao and Charles Jarquio) in Fall 2014/Spring 2015. Following this direction, we worked on object detection using UAS pictures Fall 2015/Spring 2016 (Kunliang Xiao and Binguang Wang). In Summer 2016, we further extended our research in using color for object detection. (Binguang Wang) 

As UAS controller does not provide sufficient computing power for advanced applications, we built the co-processing capability by combining RaspBerry Pi with Pixhawk. (Cara Cheng, Kunliang Xiao, and Binguang Wang) in EE396 Fall 2015.

We started to examine the source code and worked on secure the communication protocol between PixHawk and a laptop (Xen Huang and, Hualiang Li) in EE496 Fall 2015/Spring 2016.

We worked on building 3D models with LIDAR scans in EE496 Fall 2015/Spring 2016. (Joseph Yokoi, Trevin Goda, Alexander Sanchez, Alexander Lee). In Summer 2016, we further explored the SLAM algorithms and other methods for 3D modeling. (Trevin Goda)

Spring 2017: 

• Mace Kanda-Matsumoto, Jennifer Jaeckel, and Kevin Kam continue to improve the imaging processing project with different machine learning filters on RaspBerry Pi and other devices.

• Thnih Lam and Matthan Mejia are working on 3Dr Iris to improve the data scanning capability.

• Maverick Jennings is working Drone WiFi profiling.

• Ian Yuu is working on using DJI Matrice for data sensing project.