AMR Engineering Manual Ch.20 Outlines Layered Cybersecurity for Robots

Modern autonomous mobile robots and industrial autonomous systems are now highly networked cyber-physical systems that constantly exchange data with onboard sensors, cloud platforms, fleet management tools, and enterprise infrastructure. The chapter argues that cybersecurity must be built into system architecture from the earliest engineering stages rather than added later, since attacks on robots can cause physical damage, safety incidents, and operational disruption beyond simple data loss. It describes a defense-in-depth model spanning physical, hardware, firmware, operating system, middleware, network, communication, and identity-management layers. Key measures highlighted include secure boot with signed software, hardware roots of trust such as TPMs, network segregation that isolates safety controllers, and encrypted communications secured by mutual authentication. The material is part of the STATERA Library's Volume 10 engineering manual series, published in Korean on GitHub.