Arming IDS Researchers with a Robotic Arm Dataset

Industry 4.0 is rapidly transforming traditional manufacturing practices. Smart manufacturing technologies that automate research and development using a combination of robotic arms and domain-specific cyber-physical systems are at the core of this transformation. Unfortunately, dependence on networked communication increases the risk of security attacks, which must be mitigated using either platforms that are secure by design or intrusion detection and prevention systems. We report on an ongoing project to design and develop intrusion detection systems (IDS) for the Hein Lab, a smart manufacturing research lab in the chemical sciences domain. Designing effective IDS requires large datasets and high-quality, domain-specific benchmarks, which are difficult to obtain. To address this gap, we present the Robotic Arm Dataset (RAD), which we collected at the Hein Lab over a three-month period. We also present our non-intrusive tracing framework RATracer, which can be retrofitted onto any existing Python-based automation pipeline, and two sets of preliminary analyses based on the command and power data in RAD.