A UAV Testbed for Diagnosing Hardware Vulnerabilities: Quantifying Sim-to-Real Discrepancies in PX4 Flight Logs
Kubra Kose, Jacob Wing, Nuri Alperen Kose, Carlos Guadarrama-Trejo, Ayden Sowers, Amar Rasheed · 2026
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Description
Kubra Kose and co-authors built a drone testbed for hardware flaws in two thousand twenty-six. Drone software is often tuned inside simulators. Real hardware behaves differently in telling ways. Their testbed compares simulated and real flight logs. Both run the same PX4 flight stack. A shared pipeline extracts the telemetry streams.
Vibration, sensor noise, and signal interference diverged sharply. Real flights exposed faults invisible in simulation. Resource strain on board also differed. Baselines now quantify the sim-to-real gap. Security checks can validate against those baselines. Hardware attacks leave traces the testbed can catch. The work serves safer drone certification.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kubra Kose, Jacob Wing, Nuri Alperen Kose, Carlos Guadarrama-Trejo, Ayden Sowers, Amar Rasheed |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |