Dense reinforcement learning for safety validation of autonomous vehicles

S Feng, H Sun, X Yan, H Zhu, Z Zou, S Shen, HX Liu - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
One critical bottleneck that impedes the development and deployment of autonomous
vehicles is the prohibitively high economic and time costs required to validate their safety in …

Improved robustness and safety for autonomous vehicle control with adversarial reinforcement learning

X Ma, K Driggs-Campbell… - 2018 IEEE Intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To improve efficiency and reduce failures in autonomous vehicles, research has focused on
developing robust and safe learning methods that take into account disturbances in the …

Safebench: A benchmarking platform for safety evaluation of autonomous vehicles

C Xu, W Ding, W Lyu, Z Liu, S Wang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
As shown by recent studies, machine intelligence-enabled systems are vulnerable to test
cases resulting from either adversarial manipulation or natural distribution shifts. This has …

Safe, multi-agent, reinforcement learning for autonomous driving

S Shalev-Shwartz, S Shammah, A Shashua - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Autonomous driving is a multi-agent setting where the host vehicle must apply sophisticated
negotiation skills with other road users when overtaking, giving way, merging, taking left and …

Advsim: Generating safety-critical scenarios for self-driving vehicles

J Wang, A Pun, J Tu, S Manivasagam… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
As self-driving systems become better, simulating scenarios where the autonomy stack may
fail becomes more important. Traditionally, those scenarios are generated for a few scenes …

Deep reinforcement learning with enhanced safety for autonomous highway driving

A Baheri, S Nageshrao, HE Tseng… - 2020 IEEE Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a safe deep reinforcement learning system for automated driving.
The proposed framework leverages merits of both rule-based and learning-based …

Explaining autonomous driving by learning end-to-end visual attention

L Cultrera, L Seidenari, F Becattini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Current deep learning based autonomous driving approaches yield impressive results also
leading to in-production deployment in certain controlled scenarios. One of the most popular …

Intelligent driving intelligence test for autonomous vehicles with naturalistic and adversarial environment

S Feng, X Yan, H Sun, Y Feng, HX Liu - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Driving intelligence tests are critical to the development and deployment of autonomous
vehicles. The prevailing approach tests autonomous vehicles in life-like simulations of the …

Certified adversarial robustness for deep reinforcement learning

B Lütjens, M Everett, JP How - conference on Robot …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics
tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal …

Rigorous agent evaluation: An adversarial approach to uncover catastrophic failures

J Uesato, A Kumar, C Szepesvari, T Erez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating learning systems in safety critical domains
such as autonomous driving, where failures can have catastrophic consequences. We focus …