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 …

Autonomous vehicle evaluation: A comprehensive survey on modeling and simulation approaches

H Alghodhaifi, S Lakshmanan - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, autonomous vehicles (AVs), which observe the driving environment and
lead a few or all of the driving tasks, have garnered tremendous success. The field of AVs …

Calibration and evaluation of responsibility-sensitive safety (RSS) in automated vehicle performance during cut-in scenarios

S Liu, X Wang, O Hassanin, X Xu, M Yang… - … research part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ability of automated vehicles (AV) to avoid accidents in complex traffic environments is
the focus of considerable public attention. Intel has proposed a mathematical model called …

Calibration and evaluation of the Responsibility-Sensitive Safety model of autonomous car-following maneuvers using naturalistic driving study data

X Xu, X Wang, X Wu, O Hassanin, C Chai - Transportation research part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Safety guarantees are vital to the dependability of the automated vehicle (AV), so are of
primary concern to the AV industry and regulatory bodies. Responsibility-Sensitive Safety …

Congestion-mitigating MPC design for adaptive cruise control based on Newell's car following model: History outperforms prediction

H Zhou, A Zhou, T Li, D Chen, S Peeta… - … Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, model predictive control (MPC) for adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems relies
on the prediction of the leader's motion to plan the follower's trajectory. However, such …

[HTML][HTML] Multianticipation for string stable adaptive cruise control and increased motorway capacity without vehicle-to-vehicle communication

R Donà, K Mattas, Y He, G Albano, B Ciuffo - Transportation research part …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems have been expected to solve many
problems of motorway traffic. Now that they are widespread, it is observed that the majority of …

Provably-correct and comfortable adaptive cruise control

M Althoff, S Maierhofer, C Pek - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive cruise control is one of the most common comfort features of road vehicles. Despite
its large market penetration, current systems are not safe in all driving conditions and require …

Adaptive potential field-based path planning for complex autonomous driving scenarios

B Lu, G Li, H Yu, H Wang, J Guo, D Cao, H He - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An adaptive potential field is designed to adapt the acceleration/deceleration and mass of
the obstacle. The potential fields are established in a transformed road coordinate system to …

Real-time attack-recovery for cyber-physical systems using linear approximations

L Zhang, X Chen, F Kong… - 2020 IEEE Real-Time …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attack detection and recovery are fundamental elements for the operation of safe and
resilient cyber-physical systems. Most of the literature focuses on attack-detection, while …

Computationally efficient safety falsification of adaptive cruise control systems

M Koschi, C Pek, S Maierhofer… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falsification aims to disprove the safety of systems by providing counter-examples that lead
to a violation of safety properties. In this work, we present two novel falsification methods to …