Adaptive stress testing for autonomous vehicles

M Koren, S Alsaif, R Lee… - 2018 IEEE Intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for testing the decision making systems of autonomous
vehicles. Our approach involves perturbing stochastic elements in the vehicle's environment …

Adaptive stress testing with reward augmentation for autonomous vehicle validatio

A Corso, P Du, K Driggs-Campbell… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Determining possible failure scenarios is a critical step in the evaluation of autonomous
vehicle systems. Real world vehicle testing is commonly employed for autonomous vehicle …

Efficient autonomy validation in simulation with adaptive stress testing

M Koren, MJ Kochenderfer - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the development of autonomous systems such as driverless cars, it is important to
characterize the scenarios that are most likely to result in failure. Adaptive Stress Testing …

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 …

Scalable end-to-end autonomous vehicle testing via rare-event simulation

M O'Kelly, A Sinha, H Namkoong… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
While recent developments in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology highlight substantial
progress, we lack tools for rigorous and scalable testing. Real-world testing, the de facto …

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 …

Efficient black-box assessment of autonomous vehicle safety

J Norden, M O'Kelly, A Sinha - arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.03618, 2019 - arxiv.org
While autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has shown substantial progress, we still lack
tools for rigorous and scalable testing. Real-world testing, the $\textit {de-facto} $ evaluation …

Testing advanced driver assistance systems using multi-objective search and neural networks

R Ben Abdessalem, S Nejati, LC Briand… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen a proliferation of complex Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(ADAS), in particular, for use in autonomous cars. These systems consist of sensors and …

Requirements-driven test generation for autonomous vehicles with machine learning components

CE Tuncali, G Fainekos, D Prokhorov… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles are complex systems that are challenging to test and debug. A
requirements-driven approach to the development process can decrease the resources …

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 …