Formal methods to comply with rules of the road in autonomous driving: State of the art and grand challenges

N Mehdipour, M Althoff, RD Tebbens, C Belta - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a review of recent work on formal methods for autonomous driving. Formal
methods have been traditionally used to specify and verify the behavior of computer …

Driving everywhere with large language model policy adaptation

B Li, Y Wang, J Mao, B Ivanovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Adapting driving behavior to new environments customs and laws is a long-standing
problem in autonomous driving precluding the widespread deployment of autonomous …

Formalization of intersection traffic rules in temporal logic

S Maierhofer, P Moosbrugger… - 2022 IEEE Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intersections are difficult to navigate for both human drivers and autonomous vehicles
because several diverse traffic rules must be considered. In addition, current traffic rules are …

Nl2tl: Transforming natural languages to temporal logics using large language models

Y Chen, R Gandhi, Y Zhang, C Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07766, 2023 - arxiv.org
Temporal Logic (TL) can be used to rigorously specify complex high-level specification for
systems in many engineering applications. The translation between natural language (NL) …

Specification-compliant driving corridors for motion planning of automated vehicles

EI Liu, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is crucial for automated vehicles to explicitly comply with specifications, including traffic
rules, to ensure their safe and effective participation in road traffic. Such compliance is also …

LawBreaker: An approach for specifying traffic laws and fuzzing autonomous vehicles

Y Sun, CM Poskitt, J Sun, Y Chen, Z Yang - Proceedings of the 37th IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous driving systems (ADSs) must be tested thoroughly before they can be deployed
in autonomous vehicles. High-fidelity simulators allow them to be tested against diverse …

Semantic traffic law adaptive decision-making for self-driving vehicles

J Liu, H Wang, Z Cao, W Yu, C Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Facts proved that obeying traffic laws keeps the promise to promote the safety of self-driving
vehicles. Current self-driving vehicles usually have fixed algorithms during autonomous …

How should autonomous vehicles drive? Policy, methodological, and social considerations for designing a driver

AY Bin-Nun, P Derler, N Mehdipour… - Humanities and social …, 2022 - nature.com
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are being developed, tested, and commercialized around the
world. While skilled human drivers can rely on their experience and common sense to …

Online legal driving behavior monitoring for self-driving vehicles

W Yu, C Zhao, H Wang, J Liu, X Ma, Y Yang, J Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Defined traffic laws must be respected by all vehicles when driving on the road, including
self-driving vehicles without human drivers. Nevertheless, the ambiguity of human-oriented …

Counterfactual evolutionary reasoning for virtual driver reinforcement learning in safe driving

P Ye, H Qi, F Zhu, Y Lv - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is the primary concern in the motion planning and decision-making of the virtual
driver that provides prescriptions to the real human driver and even performs self-driving in …