Safety-enhanced autonomous driving using interpretable sensor fusion transformer

H Shao, L Wang, R Chen, H Li… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles has been continually delayed due to safety
concerns. On the one hand, comprehensive scene understanding is indispensable, a lack of …

Safe driving via expert guided policy optimization

Z Peng, Q Li, C Liu, B Zhou - Conference on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
When learning common skills like driving, beginners usually have domain experts standing
by to ensure the safety of the learning process. We formulate such learning scheme under …

Advsim: Generating safety-critical scenarios for self-driving vehicles

J Wang, A Pun, J Tu, S Manivasagam… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
As self-driving systems become better, simulating scenarios where the autonomy stack may
fail becomes more important. Traditionally, those scenarios are generated for a few scenes …

A survey on safety-critical driving scenario generation—A methodological perspective

W Ding, C Xu, M Arief, H Lin, B Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving systems have witnessed significant development during the past years
thanks to the advance in machine learning-enabled sensing and decision-making …

Safe real-world autonomous driving by learning to predict and plan with a mixture of experts

S Pini, CS Perone, A Ahuja… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of autonomous vehicles is to navigate public roads safely and comfortably. To
enforce safety, traditional planning approaches rely on handcrafted rules to generate …

Development methodologies for safety critical machine learning applications in the automotive domain: A survey

M Rabe, S Milz, P Mader - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Enabled by recent advances in the field of machine learning, the automotive industry pushes
towards automated driving. The development of traditional safety-critical automotive …

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 …

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 …

Toward trustworthy decision-making for autonomous vehicles: A robust reinforcement learning approach with safety guarantees

X He, W Huang, C Lv - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
While autonomous vehicles are vital components of intelligent transportation systems,
ensuring the trustworthiness of decision-making remains a substantial challenge in realizing …

Can you trust your autonomous car? interpretable and verifiably safe reinforcement learning

LM Schmidt, G Kontes, A Plinge… - 2021 IEEE Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe and efficient behavior are the key guiding principles for autonomous vehicles. Manually
designed rule-based systems need to act very conservatively to ensure a safe operation …