Explainable artificial intelligence for autonomous driving: A comprehensive overview and field guide for future research directions

S Atakishiyev, M Salameh, H Yao, R Goebel - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving has achieved significant milestones in research and development over
the last two decades. There is increasing interest in the field as the deployment of …

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 …

Dense reinforcement learning for safety validation of autonomous vehicles

S Feng, H Sun, X Yan, H Zhu, Z Zou, S Shen, HX Liu - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
One critical bottleneck that impedes the development and deployment of autonomous
vehicles is the prohibitively high economic and time costs required to validate their safety in …

Robust lane change decision making for autonomous vehicles: An observation adversarial reinforcement learning approach

X He, H Yang, Z Hu, C Lv - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcementlearning holds the promise of allowing autonomous vehicles to learn complex
decision making behaviors through interacting with other traffic participants. However, many …

Barriernet: Differentiable control barrier functions for learning of safe robot control

W Xiao, TH Wang, R Hasani, M Chahine… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many safety-critical applications of neural networks, such as robotic control, require safety
guarantees. This article introduces a method for ensuring the safety of learned models for …

An ethical trajectory planning algorithm for autonomous vehicles

M Geisslinger, F Poszler, M Lienkamp - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023 - nature.com
With the rise of artificial intelligence and automation, moral decisions that were formerly the
preserve of humans are being put into the hands of algorithms. In autonomous driving, a …

Continuous improvement of self-driving cars using dynamic confidence-aware reinforcement learning

Z Cao, K Jiang, W Zhou, S Xu, H Peng… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Today's self-driving vehicles have achieved impressive driving capabilities, but still suffer
from uncertain performance in long-tail cases. Training a reinforcement-learning-based self …

Robust decision making for autonomous vehicles at highway on-ramps: A constrained adversarial reinforcement learning approach

X He, B Lou, H Yang, C Lv - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning has demonstrated its potential in a series of challenging domains.
However, many real-world decision making tasks involve unpredictable environmental …

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 …

A review of testing object-based environment perception for safe automated driving

M Hoss, M Scholtes, L Eckstein - Automotive Innovation, 2022 - Springer
Safety assurance of automated driving systems must consider uncertain environment
perception. This paper reviews literature addressing how perception testing is realized as …