ACOLYTE (dAta Curation fOr traceabiLity sYsTEm)

ACOLYTE is a Python package application designed to facilitate traceability in autonomous systems in a cibersecure manner. It has been developed to assist in the automated extraction of data from autonomous systems. The application is available in the form of a command-line tool. Two fundamental options are available:

• Store records from a rosbag2 file.
• Get stored records by a timeframe.

This Python package application is dependant on BCubed Python package library. BCubed is available at BCubed repository.

Virtual environment (recommended)

Create and activate a virtual enviroment

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

Requirements

Install the requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Install BCubed Python package library

Follow the instructions available in BCubed README.md. It is important to note that the virtual environment has already been created.

Install ACOLYTE

(.venv) $ pip install -e <acolyte_location>

Execute ACOLYTE

1. Ensure the blockchain network is available.

   • (Optional) Execute an Ethereum simulator.

2. Update the configuration data in the config.yaml file.

3. Update the configuration data in the topics-config.yaml file.

Store records that are created by reading topic messages from a rosbag2 file

(.venv) $ acolyte -a store -i <rosbag2_file> -r <responsible> -w rosbag

Store records that are created by reading topic messages from a rosbag2 file and monitoring the operating system

(.venv) $ acolyte -a store -i <rosbag2_file> -r <responsible> -w rosbag -os

Get stored records by a timeframe

(.venv) $ acolyte -a get_by_timestamp -ts <timestamp_start> -te <timestamp_end>

Uninstall ACOLYTE

(.venv) $ pip uninstall acolyte

Acknowledgements

This research is part of the project TESCAC, financed by “European Union NextGeneration-EU, the Recovery Plan, Transformation and Resilience, through INCIBE".