Formal specification and verification of autonomous robotic systems: A survey

M Luckcuck, M Farrell, LA Dennis, C Dixon… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous robotic systems are complex, hybrid, and often safety critical; this makes their
formal specification and verification uniquely challenging. Though commonly used, testing …

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 …

High-level decision making for safe and reasonable autonomous lane changing using reinforcement learning

B Mirchevska, C Pek, M Werling… - 2018 21st …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning techniques have been shown to outperform many rule-based systems for
the decision-making of autonomous vehicles. However, applying machine learning is …

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 …

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 …

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; …

Formalization of interstate traffic rules in temporal logic

S Maierhofer, AK Rettinger, EC Mayer… - 2020 IEEE Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To allow autonomous vehicles to safely participate in traffic and to avoid liability claims for
car manufacturers, autonomous vehicles must obey traffic rules. However, current traffic …

Artificial intelligence for safety-critical systems in industrial and transportation domains: A survey

J Perez-Cerrolaza, J Abella, M Borg, C Donzella… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enable the development of next-generation autonomous safety-
critical systems in which Machine Learning (ML) algorithms learn optimized and safe …

Ethical decision making in autonomous vehicles: The AV ethics project

K Evans, N de Moura, S Chauvier, R Chatila… - … and engineering ethics, 2020 - Springer
The ethics of autonomous vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent
years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which human …

Formalizing traffic rules for machine interpretability

K Esterle, L Gressenbuch… - 2020 IEEE 3rd Connected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to be designed to abide by the same rules that humans follow.
This is challenging, because traffic rules are fuzzy and not well defined, making them …