Formal certification methods for automated vehicle safety assessment

T Zhao, E Yurtsever, JA Paulson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
used in providing safety guarantees for AV motion control originate from formal methods, …
The ADS is only expected to guarantee safety in its limited ODD environment. Even if the …

CommonRoad drivability checker: Simplifying the development and validation of motion planning algorithms

C Pek, V Rusinov, S Manzinger… - 2020 IEEE intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
motion planning approaches. Thus, in the following paragraphs, we briefly review how existing
planning approaches ensure drivability… Sattel, “Formal verification of maneuver automata …

Fail-safe motion planning for online verification of autonomous vehicles using convex optimization

C Pek, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Snapshot from our driving experiments with a BMW 7-series … , we focus on popular formal
verification techniques within the … a verification technique that ensures the safety of planned mo…

Using online verification to prevent autonomous vehicles from causing accidents

C Pek, S Manzinger, M Koschi, M Althoff - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
… collision risks to ensuring safety through formal verification. Formal verification describes the
… corridor and a lateral driving corridor for fail-safe motion planning as a temporal sequence …

Formalizing traffic rules for machine interpretability

K Esterle, L Gressenbuch… - 2020 IEEE 3rd Connected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Logical languages are a formal way to represent rules. A … will be inherently satisfied by a
motion planner. Thus, we will … 2) Distance: We formalize the rule to ensure a safe distance …

Risk-aware motion planning for autonomous vehicles with safety specifications

T Nyberg, C Pek, L Dal Col, C Norén… - 2021 ieee intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In contrast to most formal verification methods, our approach … with methods for trajectory
planning in autonomous driving. It … ensure desired and safe motions, the states along a planned

Recent advances in motion and behavior planning techniques for software architecture of autonomous vehicles: A state-of-the-art survey

O Sharma, NC Sahoo, NB Puhan - Engineering applications of artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
… of an ICS) concept which gives guarantee about no collision. The collision between an object
… Only motion planning is not enough for autonomous safe driving. The interaction of two …

Using reachable sets for trajectory planning of automated vehicles

S Manzinger, C Pek, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
motion planning. Additionally, in Sec. VII, we demonstrate by vehicle tests that planned
trajectories are drivable despite the use … Addition A2 ensures that we obtain connected sets with a …

Verification and validation methods for decision-making and planning of automated vehicles: A review

Y Ma, C Sun, J Chen, D Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the needs, whereas, verification ensures the correctness and … injection testing, and formal
verification. The schematic overview … the reliability of motion planning and collision avoidance …

Safetynet: Safe planning for real-world self-driving vehicles using machine-learned policies

M Vitelli, Y Chang, Y Ye, A Ferreira… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of driving situations [2], [13]–[15]. Next, we introduce the two most commonly used ML paradigms
for motion planning. (1) … To ensure the predicted trajectories are physically feasible, we …