Tamper Resistant UAV/UGV Embedded Architecture

Irvine Sensors Corporation (ISC) together with a prime contractor plan to develop an innovative anti-tamper technique for protection of processors and memories found in UAV, UGV, and embedded type systems. Our technique utilizes low power principals designed to have limited power consumption with the aircrafts overall power budget while maintaining tamper resistance. Areas of the technique proposed are reconfigurable to meet the mission and components requirements of the aircraft and its mission. Protection techniques include removal of critical technologies found with in the UAV"s main electronic components when a tamper is detected. We proposed a model based designed in Phase I with results to be applied to a prototype version. The prototype version will be implemented on a modified version of the UAV Towhawk for independent analysis and verification in Phase II.