A systematic framework to identify violations of scenario-dependent driving rules in autonomous vehicle software

Q Zhang, DK Hong, Z Zhang, QA Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Safety compliance is paramount to the safe deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV)
technologies in real-world transportation systems. As AVs will share road infrastructures with …

Specification-based autonomous driving system testing

Y Zhou, Y Sun, Y Tang, Y Chen, J Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicle (AV) systems must be comprehensively tested and evaluated before
they can be deployed. High-fidelity simulators such as CARLA or LGSVL allow this to be …

Intersection focused situation coverage-based verification and validation framework for autonomous vehicles implemented in Carla

Z Tahir, R Alexander - … Conference on Modelling and Simulation for …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) ie, self-driving cars, operate in a safety-critical domain,
since errors in the autonomous driving software can lead to huge losses. Statistically, road …

Simulation-based Validation for Autonomous Driving Systems

C Li, J Sifakis, Q Wang, R Yan, J Zhang - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We investigate a rigorous simulation and testing-based validation method for autonomous
driving systems that integrates an existing industrial simulator and a formally defined testing …

Advanced scenario generation for calibration and verification of autonomous vehicles

X Li, S Teng, B Liu, X Dai, X Na… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As driving scenarios and autonomous vehicles (AVs) become increasingly intricating, there
is an increasing need for innovative frameworks that can enhance and test AV capabilities …

LawBreaker: An approach for specifying traffic laws and fuzzing autonomous vehicles

Y Sun, CM Poskitt, J Sun, Y Chen, Z Yang - Proceedings of the 37th IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous driving systems (ADSs) must be tested thoroughly before they can be deployed
in autonomous vehicles. High-fidelity simulators allow them to be tested against diverse …

Challenges in autonomous vehicle testing and validation

P Koopman, M Wagner - SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety, 2016 - JSTOR
Software testing is all too often simply a bug hunt rather than a well-considered exercise in
ensuring quality. A more methodical approach than a simple cycle of system-level test-fail …

Target: Automated scenario generation from traffic rules for testing autonomous vehicles

Y Deng, J Yao, Z Tu, X Zheng, M Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Ensuring the safety and robustness of autonomous driving systems (ADSs) is imperative.
One of the crucial methods towards this assurance is the meticulous construction and …

Falsifying motion plans of autonomous vehicles with abstractly specified traffic scenarios

M Klischat, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Verifying the safety of autonomous vehicles is one of the major challenges towards their
deployment on public roads due to the vast number of possible situations that can occur in …

Challenges in autonomous vehicle validation: Keynote presentation abstract

P Koopman - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Safe …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Developers of autonomous systems face distinct challenges in conforming to established
methods of validating safety. It is well known that testing alone is insufficient to assure safety …