Set-based computation of vehicle behaviors for the online verification of autonomous vehicles

M Althoff, JM Dolan - 2011 14th International IEEE Conference …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We compute the set of all possible behaviors of an autonomous vehicle using reachability
analysis. A reachable set is the set of states a system can reach for a given set of initial …

Online verification of automated road vehicles using reachability analysis

M Althoff, JM Dolan - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An approach for formally verifying the safety of automated vehicles is proposed. Due to the
uniqueness of each traffic situation, we verify safety online, ie, during the operation of the …

Safety verification of autonomous vehicles for coordinated evasive maneuvers

M Althoff, D Althoff, D Wollherr… - 2010 IEEE Intelligent …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The verification of evasive maneuvers for autonomous vehicles driving with constant velocity
is considered. Modeling uncertainties, uncertain measurements, and disturbances can …

[PDF][PDF] Verification of collision avoidance for CommonRoad traffic scenarios

N Kochdumper, P Gassert… - Proc. of the 8th …, 2021 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
We propose a benchmark for the verification of autonomous vehicles. By considering
different traffic scenarios from the CommonRoad database, we obtain several thousands of …

Anytime safety verification of autonomous vehicles

F Gruber, M Althoff - 2018 21st International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a procedure to formally verify the safety of autonomous vehicles online, ie,
during operation, that considers the uniqueness of each traffic situation. A challenging …

Safety assessment of autonomous cars using verification techniques

M Althoff, O Stursberg, M Buss - 2007 American Control …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common requirement for autonomous cars is a safe locomotion which is evaluated by the
method of hybrid verification applied online. The approach checks avoidance of static …

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 …

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 …

Online verification enabling approval of driving functions—implementation for a planner of an autonomous race vehicle

T Stahl, F Diermeyer - IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety guarantees and regulatory approval for autonomous vehicles remain an ongoing
challenge. In particular, software that is frequently adapted or contains complex, non …

Reliable decision-making in autonomous vehicles

GV Alves, L Dennis, L Fernandes, M Fisher - Validation and verification of …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The use of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) on our streets is soon to be a reality;
increasingly, interacting with such AVs will be part of our daily routine. However, we will …