Safety, Security, and Reliability of Robotic Systems: Algorithms, Applications, and Technologies

Robotic Systems Under the Microscope 🤖

As robots move from factory floors into homes, hospitals, and public spaces, the questions around them grow more urgent. How do we keep them safe? How do we protect them from attack? How do we ensure they perform reliably when failure is not an option? Safety, Security, and Reliability of Robotic Systems brings together current research and practical methodologies to address these exact challenges. Edited by Brij B. Gupta and Nadia Nedjah, this collection examines the algorithms, applications, and technologies that make modern robotic systems trustworthy.

From Evolution to Everyday Applications

The book opens with the evolution of robotic systems and their growing role in industry, domestic settings, and beyond. Subsequent chapters move into the fundamentals of designing such systems, covering mathematical models, learning mechanisms, and the underlying technologies that support them. The scope is broad but coherent: each contribution builds toward a clearer understanding of how safety, security, and reliability are interconnected.

Security Threats and Countermeasures 🔐

Several chapters tackle security head-on. Readers will find analysis of DeepFakes targeting robotic systems, authentication protocols for IoT home networks, key management for wireless sensor networks, and privacy-preserving biometric authentication. Topics like elliptic curve cryptography, homomorphic encryption, and trust management in sensor networks appear alongside practical detection techniques for black hole attacks and steganographic methods. The emphasis stays on solutions that can be implemented, not just theoretical concerns.

Reliability and Intelligent Detection

Reliability is explored through applications such as early detection of diabetic retinopathy using deep CNNs, vehicle detection with faster R-CNN, and credit card fraud detection via machine learning. Nanoscale semiconductor devices for reliable robotic systems also feature, bridging hardware and software perspectives. These chapters show how reliability is pursued across domains — from medical imaging to financial security — with robotic systems often at the center of the pipeline.

Who This Book Is For

The editors describe the intended audience as system designers, software developers, researchers, scholars, students, and security professionals. The material is structured in flexible modules, allowing readers to follow their own learning path. If you work with autonomous systems, IoT, or cybersecurity, the book offers a well-organized reference that connects foundational concepts with up-to-date research. Students and researchers will also appreciate the collection’s breadth and the way each chapter stands on its own.

Why It Matters ⚙️

As robots become more autonomous and more connected, safety and security can no longer be afterthoughts. This volume treats them as core design requirements. By bringing together contributions on topics from humanoid facial recognition to wireless sensor network attacks, it provides a snapshot of where the field stands and where it is heading. For anyone responsible for building or evaluating robotic systems, it is a substantive and timely resource.