Resiliency of Vehicle Platoon Network Topologies under Physical Attack

Vehicle platooning inspires the future of transportation and yet introduces the possibility for physical attacks to disrupt autonomy operations. In this paper, we evaluate platoon resiliency in the presence of such attacks. Our evaluation includes 60 unique combinations of controller, control policy, and topology with an equal weight control schema while attacking specific platoon members. The experimental results show that the targeted vehicle, network topology, control policy, and controller all influence platoon resiliency with some configurations leading to platoon instability.