Fail-safe motion planning of autonomous vehicles

S Magdici, M Althoff - 2016 IEEE 19th International Conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formally verified methods for motion planning are required in order to guarantee safety for
autonomous vehicles. In particular, we consider trajectory generation by considering the …

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
Safe motion planning for autonomous vehicles is a challenging task, since the exact future
motion of other traffic participant is usually unknown. In this article, we present a verification …

Set-based prediction of traffic participants considering occlusions and traffic rules

M Koschi, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Provably safe motion planning for automated road vehicles must ensure that planned
motions do not result in a collision with other traffic participants. This is a major challenge in …

Using online verification to prevent autonomous vehicles from causing accidents

C Pek, S Manzinger, M Koschi, M Althoff - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
Ensuring that autonomous vehicles do not cause accidents remains a challenge. We
present a formal verification technique for guaranteeing legal safety in arbitrary urban traffic …

Online risk-bounded motion planning for autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments

X Huang, S Hong, A Hofmann, BC Williams - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aaai.org
A crucial challenge to efficient and robust motion planning for autonomous vehicles is
understanding the intentions of the surrounding agents. Ignoring the intentions of the other …

Non-conservative trajectory planning for automated vehicles by estimating intentions of dynamic obstacles

T Benciolini, D Wollherr… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning algorithms for urban automated driving must handle uncertainty due to
unknown intention and future motion of Dynamic Obstacles (DOs). Considering a single …

Falsifying motion plans of autonomous vehicles with abstractly specified traffic scenarios

M Klischat, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Verifying the safety of autonomous vehicles is one of the major challenges towards their
deployment on public roads due to the vast number of possible situations that can occur in …

Efficient computation of invariably safe states for motion planning of self-driving vehicles

C Pek, M Althoff - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe motion planning requires that a vehicle reaches a set of safe states at the end of the
planning horizon. However, safe states of vehicles have not yet been systematically defined …

Merit-based motion planning for autonomous vehicles in urban scenarios

J Medina-Lee, A Artuñedo, J Godoy, J Villagra - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Safe and adaptable motion planning for autonomous vehicles remains an open problem in
urban environments, where the variability of situations and behaviors may become …

Wiggling through complex traffic: Planning trajectories constrained by predictions

J Schlechtriemen, KP Wabersich… - 2016 IEEE Intelligent …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vision of autonomous driving is piecewise becoming reality. Still the problem of
executing the driving task in a safe and comfortable way in all possible environments, for …