Techniques for enforcing stratified aircraft security are presented. The techniques are performed using an aircraft-based authentication and authorization unit and a wireless transceiver, where the authentication and authorization unit includes an electronically stored machine learning classifier. The techniques include: receiving and verifying authentication data for an employee from a mobile access device; receiving employee data from the mobile access device, the employee data including at least information representing an access event of the employee with the aircraft; providing an input to the machine learning classifier, the input including at least aircraft data and the employee data; obtaining an output from the machine learning classifier, the output indicating a level of access authorized; and providing an alert in response to a level of access by the at least one employee for the access event exceeding the level of access authorized.

An apparatus, including a receiver which receives information regarding a limitation or restriction for allowing or prohibiting a control operation or monitoring operation regarding a vehicle or premises, a memory which stores the information, and a first controller programmed to perform a control or monitoring operation regarding the vehicle or premises. The receiver receives a first signal transmitted from a second controller, containing information regarding the control operation or monitoring operation. The first controller determines, using the information, if the control operation or monitoring operation is allowed or disallowed. If allowed, the first controller transmits a second signal to a third controller. The third controller generates a third signal in response to the second signal, which activates, deactivates, enables, disables, controls an operation of, or monitors an operation of, the vehicle or premises, or a system, equipment system, equipment, component, device, or accessory, of the vehicle or premises.

A system for protection from potentially hazardous personal devices includes a passenger interaction console co-located proximate to a passenger seat of a vehicle and usable by a user seated at the passenger seat, an isolation chamber configured to store a potentially hazardous personal device, an access control module configured to confirm that the user is authorized to use the potentially hazardous personal device and enable the user to access the potentially hazardous personal device in response to confirming that the user is authorized to use the potentially hazardous personal device. A corresponding method includes determining a passenger seat location for a user, accessing seat assignment information for the user, confirming that user is assigned to the passenger seat location, and enabling the user to access a potentially hazardous device stored within an isolation chamber corresponding to the passenger seat.

A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes receiving locking instruction information from a user terminal for locking the UAV. The method also includes transmitting a locking command to a remote control device of the UAV based on the locking instruction information, to instruct the remote control device to lock the UAV based on the locking command.

A bandpass filter allows a light ray of a predetermined band including a wavelength band of a color of a laser beam, which is a target of detection, among light rays from a subject to pass therethrough. An imaging unit of a video camera captures the light ray passing through the bandpass filter. The controller analyzes a frequency for each brightness level of a video signal generated based on an imaging signal output from the imaging unit and detects a peak at which the frequency protrudes at a specific brightness level. The controller detects a trajectory of a straight light ray in a frame of the video signal. The controller detects that the laser beam is irradiated when the peak exists at a specific brightness level and the trajectory of the light ray exists in the frame.

An unmanned autonomous device includes an isolation kernel having plurality of drivers respectively dedicated to a plurality of subsystems. The drivers are configured to facilitate communication between the subsystems. A gateway in the unmanned autonomous device is configured to control routing of data between the subsystems via the drivers respectively dedicated to the subsystems, such that data is only allowed to be passed between the subsystems along predefined routes.

An aircraft is described. The aircraft includes an avionics management system including one or more control display units. The control display units include an alphanumeric keyboard. By the alphanumeric keyboard, an operator within the aircraft may input a personal identification number (PIN). The input PIN is received from the alphanumeric keyboard and compared with a PIN stored in memory. When the input PIN is validated, the avionics management system changes a system state from not validated to validated, thereby permitting the control display unit to access otherwise unavailable mobile user objective system (MUOS) feature sets, such as viewing MUOS presets or tuning to the MUOS presets.

The avionic calculator is suitable for being carried on-board an aircraft and comprises a multi-core processor configured for executing avionic software applications. The processor includes at least one primary core for communicating with at least one avionic equipment distinct from the calculator, each avionic equipment being carried on-board the aircraft and belonging to an avionic domain; at least one secondary core for communicating with at least one electronic device external to the avionic domain; and a tertiary core for performing at least one filtering of a data message received from a respective device external to the avionic domain and intended for a respective avionic equipment of the avionic domain. Each avionic software application being executable by the at least one primary core or the at least one secondary core.

An unmanned vehicle includes at least one navigation sensor configured to measure navigation data indicative of an environment, at least one status sensor configured to measure status data indicative of operating parameters of a hardware system and a computing system. The computing system includes a navigation engine configured to receive the navigation data and status data and plan a path through the environment and a security engine. The security engine is configured to detect that an unauthorized user is attempting to access the navigation data or the status data, send an alert to an authorized user indicating that the unauthorized user is attempting to access navigation data or status data, and send, to the unauthorized user, simulated data including one or both of simulated navigation data and simulated status data.

A vehicle surface includes a set of retroreflectors configured to reflect, at least in part, incident hostile light towards a source of the incident hostile light.