Multi-attribute decision making on mitigating a collision of an autonomous vehicle on motorways

A Gilbert, D Petrovic, JE Pickering, K Warwick - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to improve automotive safety, largely by removing
human error as a possible cause of collisions. However, it cannot be guaranteed that …

A model-to-decision approach for the autonomous vehicle (av) ethical dilemma: Av collision with a barrier/pedestrian (s)

JE Pickering, M Podsiadly, KJ Burnham - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019 - Elsevier
The introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is expected to reduce the number of road
traffic accidents; however, it is expected that this will not be completely incidents free. In the …

Modelling and simulation of an autonomous vehicle ethical steering control system (ESCS)

J D'Souza, KJ Burnham… - 2022 26th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research uses modelling and simulation tools to investigate a vehicle ethical steering
control system (ESCS) for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The ESCS would be activated when …

Research on Autonomous Vehicle Obstacle Avoidance Path Planning with Consideration of Social Ethics

L Wang, H Jing, G Zhong, J Wang, T Wang - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Self-driving car research can effectively reduce the occurrence of traffic accidents, but when
encountering sudden people or obstacles cutting into the lane, how to reduce the damage …

A new reinforcement learning-based framework for unbiased autonomous software systems

IA Sulaimon, A Ghoneim… - 2019 8th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
From the newsfeeds, the products and services advertised to us, job screening, risk analysis,
facial recognition and to the results we get through search engines, human-curated …

[PDF][PDF] Variable Trust Setting for Safe and Ethical Algorithms for Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles (C-NAV) on a Highway.

J D'Souza, J Kim, JE Pickering - ICINCO (1), 2023 - scitepress.org
This paper presents the use of an ethical model-to-decision approach for promoting safe
manoeuvrability of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on highways, when considering scenarios …

Review on Ethical Decision-Making Technology for Unmanned Ground Vehicle

T Luan, X Qu, X Li, Q Liu, Y Wang… - 2022 34th Chinese …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The decision-making in a collision is sometimes ethical. For example, a driver needs to face
the decision dilemma of whether to crash into a pedestrian on the sidewalk or sacrifice the …

The implementation of ethical decision procedures in autonomous systems: The case of the autonomous vehicle

K Evans - 2021 - theses.hal.science
The ethics of emerging forms of artificial intelligence has become a prolific subject in both
academic and public spheres. A great deal of these concerns flow from the need to ensure …

[PDF][PDF] Autonomous vehicle collision ethical decision maker: common utility cost unit for collision injury severity levels

JE Pickering, KJ Burnham - XLVIII International Symposium on …, 2021 - researchgate.net
The introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) introduces ethical issues when an inevitable
collision scenario is detected with multiple outcomes/targets, eg deciding between steering …

[PDF][PDF] Programming an autonomous vehicle ethical decision maker based on injury severity

JE Pickering - 2022 - pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) are likely to be on the roads in the next 10 to 20 years. AVs
are expected to make fewer errors than human-driven vehicles (HDVs), hence reducing the …