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Exploiting Trust for Resilient Hypothesis Testing with Malicious Robots (evolved version)

Cavorsi, Matthew, Akgün, Orhan Eren, Yemini, Michal, Goldsmith, Andrea, Gil, Stephanie

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We develop a resilient binary hypothesis testing framework for decision making in adversarial multi-robot crowdsensing tasks. This framework exploits stochastic trust observations between robots to arrive at tractable, resilient decision making at a centralized Fusion Center (FC) even when i) there exist malicious robots in the network and their number may be larger than the number of legitimate robots, and ii) the FC uses one-shot noisy measurements from all robots. We derive two algorithms to achieve this. The first is the Two Stage Approach (2SA) that estimates the legitimacy of robots based on received trust observations, and provably minimizes the probability of detection error in the worst-case malicious attack. Here, the proportion of malicious robots is known but arbitrary. For the case of an unknown proportion of malicious robots, we develop the Adversarial Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (A-GLRT) that uses both the reported robot measurements and trust observations to estimate the trustworthiness of robots, their reporting strategy, and the correct hypothesis simultaneously. We exploit special problem structure to show that this approach remains computationally tractable despite several unknown problem parameters. We deploy both algorithms in a hardware experiment where a group of robots conducts crowdsensing of traffic conditions on a mock-up road network similar in spirit to Google Maps, subject to a Sybil attack. We extract the trust observations for each robot from actual communication signals which provide statistical information on the uniqueness of the sender. We show that even when the malicious robots are in the majority, the FC can reduce the probability of detection error to 30.5% and 29% for the 2SA and the A-GLRT respectively.


Robots increase the gender pay gap despite raising wages overall

New Scientist - News

When industries replace workers with robots, wages rise for all on average due to productivity gains, but the difference in pay for men and women widens. They found that the number of robots per 10,000 workers increased, on average, by 47 per cent between 2006 and 2014.


Robots increase the gender pay gap despite raising wages overall

New Scientist

When industries replace workers with robots, wages rise for all on average due to productivity gains, but the difference in pay for men and women widens. They found that the number of robots per 10,000 workers increased, on average, by 47 per cent between 2006 and 2014.

  gender pay gap, robot increase
  Country: Europe > Germany (0.13)