Vehicle control system and method for controlling vehicle control system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12417280-B2
Application number	US-202318228822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2023
Priority date	Feb 8, 2021
Publication date	Sep 16, 2025
Grant date	Sep 16, 2025

Abstract

A vehicle control system includes: a detector that detects an attack on an application; a vehicle state verifier that verifies a state of a vehicle when the detector detects the attack; an influence verifier that verifies, based on a verification result of the vehicle state verifier, an influence on the vehicle assuming operation of the application subjected to the attack is stopped; a determiner that determines, based on a verification result of the influence verifier, at least one of a response method for responding to the attack or a recovery method for recovering the application subjected to the attack; and a controller that executes at least one of the response method or the recovery method determined.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle control system provided in a vehicle that includes an application execution environment for operating an application, the vehicle control system comprising:
a detector that detects an attack on the application;
a vehicle state verifier that verifies a state of the vehicle when the detector detects the attack;
an influence verifier that verifies, based on a first verification result of the vehicle state verifier, an influence on the vehicle assuming operation of the application subjected to the attack is stopped;
a determiner that determines, based on a second verification result of the influence verifier, at least one of a response method for responding to the attack or a recovery method for recovering the application subjected to the attack;
a controller that executes the at least one of the response method or the recovery method determined; and
a recovery readiness state verifier that verifies a recovery readiness state of the application subjected to the attack, wherein
the controller executes the recovery method on a condition that preparations for recovering the application subjected to the attack are complete, based on a third verification result of the recovery readiness state verifier.

2. The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a vulnerability level verifier that verifies a vulnerability level of the application subjected to the attack, wherein
when the vulnerability level of the application is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the influence verifier verifies the influence on the vehicle assuming the operation of the application subjected to the attack is stopped.

3. The vehicle control system according to claim 2 , wherein
the application execution environment is configured to operate a plurality of applications each of which is the application, and
when a sum of respective vulnerability levels of the plurality of applications exceeds a predetermined value, or when a total number of the plurality of applications for which execution of the response method has failed exceeds a predetermined number, the controller executes the response method on all of the plurality of applications, or the controller switches from executing the response method to executing the recovery method.

4. The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the response method is any one of follow-up monitoring of the application under an increased frequency of monitoring, checking integrity of the application, stopping operation of the application, deleting the application, or prohibiting use of an application programming interface (API) of the application.

5. The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the recovery method is any one of overwriting the application with a repaired application, rebooting the application, or rebooting the application execution environment.

6. A method for controlling a vehicle control system provided in a vehicle that includes an application execution environment for operating an application, the method comprising:
(a) detecting an attack on the application;
(b) verifying a state of the vehicle when the attack is detected;
(c) verifying, based on a first verification result in (b), an influence on the vehicle assuming operation of the application is stopped;
(d) determining, based on a second verification result in (c), at least one of a response method for responding to the attack or a recovery method for recovering the application;
(e) executing at least one of the response method or the recovery method determined;
(f) verifying a recovery readiness state of the application subjected to the attack, wherein
the recovery method is executed in (e) on a condition that preparations for recovering the application subjected to the attack are complete, based on a third verification result in (f).

7. A vehicle control system provided in a vehicle that includes an application execution environment for operating an application, the vehicle control system comprising:
a detector that detects an attack on the application;
a vehicle state verifier that verifies a state of the vehicle when the detector detects the attack;
an influence verifier that verifies, based on a first verification result of the vehicle state verifier, an influence on the vehicle assuming operation of the application subjected to the attack is stopped;
a determiner that determines, based on a second verification result of the influence verifier, at least one of a response method for responding to the attack or a recovery method for recovering the application subjected to the attack;
a controller that executes the at least one of the response method or the recovery method determined;
a vulnerability level verifier that verifies a vulnerability level of the application subjected to the attack, wherein
when the vulnerability level of the application is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the influence verifier verifies the influence on the vehicle assuming the operation of the application subjected to the attack is stopped.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
• Panasonic Automotive Systems Co Ltd

Inventors

• Anzai Jun
• Nakano Toshihisa
• Tamura Kento

Classifications

• B60W60/00188

  related to detected security violation of control systems, e.g. hacking of moving vehicle · CPC title

• G06F21/577

  Assessing vulnerabilities and evaluating computer system security · CPC title

• G06F21/554

  involving event detection and direct action · CPC title

• B60R16/02

  electric {constitutive elements} · CPC title

• G06F21/55 Primary

  Detecting local intrusion or implementing counter-measures · CPC title