Method and apparatus for detecting manipulation of a technical device in a motor vehicle utilizing methods of artificial intelligence

An apparatus for detecting manipulation of a technical device in a motor vehicle, the apparatus being configured to:

• provide a time series of an input vector having one or more system variables and having at least one manipulated variable for an intervention in the technical device;
• utilize a data-based manipulation detection model which includes a recurrent neural network that is configured to determine a state vector as a function of the input vector, and an autoencoder which is configured to determine a reconstructed vector as a function of the state vector;
• detect an anomaly as a function of a reconstruction error, which is a function of the reconstructed vector;
• detect a manipulation as a function of the reconstruction error.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium on which are stored commands for detecting manipulation of a technical device in a motor vehicle, the commands, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the following steps:

• providing a time series of an input vector having one or more system variables and having at least one manipulated variable for an intervention in the technical device;
• utilizing a data-based manipulation detection model which includes a recurrent neural network that is configured to determine a state vector as a function of the input vector, and an autoencoder which is configured to determine a reconstructed vector as a function of the state vector;
• detecting an anomaly as a function of a reconstruction error, which is a function of the reconstructed vector;
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• detecting a manipulation as a function of the reconstruction error.