Project: #9 Analyzing and Defending Cyberattacks on Electric, Hybrid, and AV Battery Systems Progress Report - Reporting Period Ending: March 31, 2018 Principal Investigator: Venkat Viswanathan Status: Completed Start Date: Jan. 1, 2017 End Date: Aug. 31, 2018 Research Type: Applied Grant Type: Research Grant Program: MAP-21 TSET National (2013 - 2018) Grant Cycle: 2017 TSET UTC Progress Report (Last Updated: March 31, 2018, 2:09 p.m.) % Project Completed to Date: 30 % Grant Award Expended: 0 % Match Expended & Document: 0 USDOT Requirements Accomplishments We have compiled the first-leg of the studies in a manuscript where we establish the details of the short-term and long-term impact of cyber attacks. This manuscript will also state the future paths that need to be taken in terms of inclusion of the charging infrastructure, autonomous driving, etc., and how compromising such an infrastructure would also lead to similar or greater impact than the results we will recently report in our manuscript for cyberattacks involving auxiliary components. The manuscript has been submitted to arXiv currently and we plan to submit the same as an article for publication. Impacts We have developed a comprehensive dataset to quantify the potential risks of cyberattacks on auxiliary components in different real-world scenarios. Through the current work, the critical risk posed by battery packs in the cybersecurity space has been highlighted. Further, we have developed a first-order approach to assessing the kinds of cyberattacks that are possible in the Electric Vehicle space, like that of undetectable yet pernicious attacks which can compromise the functionality of the battery packs both in short-term and long-term. Such scenarios were not part of the conversation in the community till date since most of the cyberattack events studied dealt with immediate physical damage to vehicles like the loss of control of the powertrain, steering, etc. Other NA Outcomes New Partners NA Issues Assessing certain kinds of impact like safety (fire/ thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries) is currently beyond the scope of Li-ion battery modeling, and we need to address this space in order to have an all-encompassing evaluation of the impact of cyber attacks. We have built basic approaches to understand such phenomena and this will form the subject of forthcoming analyses and studies.