Control-Aware Manipulation of ArduPilot via Legitimate MAVLink Commands: Simulation and Hardware Validation

Feras Benchellal andLotfi Ben Othmane, Yasaswini Konapalli, Cihan Tunc +1

This paper investigates control-aware attacks against ArduPilot-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), inwhich an adversary exploits the sensitivity of flight-controller dynamics t…