Using online verification to prevent autonomous vehicles from causing accidents

C Pek, S Manzinger, M Koschi, M Althoff - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
Ensuring that autonomous vehicles do not cause accidents remains a challenge. We
present a formal verification technique for guaranteeing legal safety in arbitrary urban traffic …

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 …

Fail-safe motion planning of autonomous vehicles

S Magdici, M Althoff - 2016 IEEE 19th International Conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formally verified methods for motion planning are required in order to guarantee safety for
autonomous vehicles. In particular, we consider trajectory generation by considering the …

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 …

Verifying the safety of lane change maneuvers of self-driving vehicles based on formalized traffic rules

C Pek, P Zahn, M Althoff - 2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Validating the safety of self-driving vehicles requires an enormous amount of testing. By
applying formal verification methods, we can prove the correctness of the vehicles' behavior …

Scenario factory: Creating safety-critical traffic scenarios for automated vehicles

M Klischat, EI Liu, F Holtke… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The safety validation of motion planning algorithms for automated vehicles requires a large
amount of data for virtual testing. Currently, this data is often collected through real test …

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 …

Safetynet: Safe planning for real-world self-driving vehicles using machine-learned policies

M Vitelli, Y Chang, Y Ye, A Ferreira… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present the first safe system for full control of self-driving vehicles trained
from human demonstrations and deployed in challenging, real-world, urban environments …

Computationally efficient fail-safe trajectory planning for self-driving vehicles using convex optimization

C Pek, M Althoff - 2018 21st International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring the safety of self-driving vehicles is a challenging task, especially if other traffic
participants severely deviate from the predicted behavior. One solution is to ensure that the …

Formalising traffic rules for accountability of autonomous vehicles

A Rizaldi, M Althoff - 2015 IEEE 18th international conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One significant barrier in introducing autonomous driving is the liability issue of a collision;
eg when two autonomous vehicles collide, it is unclear which vehicle should be held …