Generating avoidable collision scenarios for testing autonomous driving systems

A Calò, P Arcaini, S Ali, F Hauer… - 2020 IEEE 13th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated and autonomous driving systems (ADS) are a transformational technology in the
mobility sector. Current practice for testing ADS uses virtual tests in computer simulations; …

Generating and characterizing scenarios for safety testing of autonomous vehicles

Z Ghodsi, SKS Hari, I Frosio, T Tsai… - 2021 IEEE Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extracting interesting scenarios from real-world data as well as generating failure cases is
important for the development and testing of autonomous systems. We propose efficient …

Automatic generation of safety-critical test scenarios for collision avoidance of road vehicles

M Althoff, S Lutz - 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is apparent that one cannot rely solely on physical test drives for ensuring the correct
functionality of autonomous vehicles. Since physical test drives are costly and time …

Rapidly-exploring random trees for testing automated vehicles

CE Tuncali, G Fainekos - 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the expectations from fully or partially automated vehicles is to never cause an
accident and actively avoid dangerous situations. However, an automated vehicle may not …

Genetic algorithm-based test parameter optimization for ADAS system testing

F Klück, M Zimmermann, F Wotawa… - 2019 IEEE 19th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we outline the use of a genetic algorithm for test parameter optimization in the
context of autonomous and automated driving. Our approach iteratively optimizes test …

Fitness functions for testing automated and autonomous driving systems

F Hauer, A Pretschner, B Holzmüller - Computer Safety, Reliability, and …, 2019 - Springer
Functional specifications and real drive data are typically used to derive parameterized
scenarios for scenario-based testing of driving systems. The domains of the parameters …

Av-fuzzer: Finding safety violations in autonomous driving systems

G Li, Y Li, S Jha, T Tsai, M Sullivan… - 2020 IEEE 31st …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes AV-FUZZER, a testing framework, to find the safety violations of an
autonomous vehicle (AV) in the presence of an evolving traffic environment. We perturb the …

Did we test all scenarios for automated and autonomous driving systems?

F Hauer, T Schmidt, B Holzmüller… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To ensure safety and functional correctness of automated and autonomous driving systems,
virtual scenario-based testing is used. Experts derive traffic scenario types and generate …

Quality metrics and oracles for autonomous vehicles testing

G Jahangirova, A Stocco… - 2021 14th IEEE conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The race for deploying AI-enabled autonomous vehicles (AVs) on public roads is based on
the promise that such self-driving cars will be as safe as or safer than human drivers …

Asfault: Testing self-driving car software using search-based procedural content generation

A Gambi, M Müller, G Fraser - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring the safety of self-driving cars is important, but neither industry nor authorities have
settled on a standard way to test them. Deploying self-driving cars for testing in regular traffic …