Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

Physics-informed machine learning for modeling and control of dynamical systems

TX Nghiem, J Drgoňa, C Jones, Z Nagy… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically
integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract …

Empowering autonomous driving with large language models: A safety perspective

Y Wang, R Jiao, SS Zhan, C Lang, C Huang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Autonomous Driving (AD) encounters significant safety hurdles in long-tail unforeseen
driving scenarios, largely stemming from the non-interpretability and poor generalization of …

Anomaly diagnosis of connected autonomous vehicles: A survey

Y Fang, H Min, X Wu, W Wang, X Zhao… - Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are revolutionizing the development of
transportation due to their potential to improve transportation performance in many ways …

A formal control framework of autonomous vehicle for signal temporal logic tasks and obstacle avoidance

Z Huang, W Lan, X Yu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the control problem of making an autonomous vehicle modeled as a
nonlinear affine system, achieve both temporal logic tasks and obstacle avoidance. A new …

Safe perception-based control under stochastic sensor uncertainty using conformal prediction

S Yang, GJ Pappas, R Mangharam… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider perception-based control using state estimates that are obtained from high-
dimensional sensor measurements via learning-enabled perception maps. However, these …

Learning adaptive safety for multi-agent systems

L Berducci, S Yang, R Mangharam… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring safety in dynamic multi-agent systems is challenging due to limited information
about the other agents. Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are showing promise for safety …

Data-driven safe controller synthesis for deterministic systems: A posteriori method with validation tests

Y Chen, C Shang, X Huang… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the data-driven safe control synthesis problem for unknown
dynamic systems. We first formulate the safety synthesis problem as a robust convex …

Learning local control barrier functions for safety control of hybrid systems

S Yang, Y Chen, X Yin, R Mangharam - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14907, 2024 - arxiv.org
Hybrid dynamical systems are ubiquitous as practical robotic applications often involve both
continuous states and discrete switchings. Safety is a primary concern for hybrid robotic …

Safe-by-construction autonomous vehicle overtaking using control barrier functions and model predictive control

D Yuan, X Yu, S Li, X Yin - International Journal of Systems …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Ensuring safety for vehicle overtaking systems is one of the most fundamental and
challenging tasks in autonomous driving. This task is particularly intricate when the vehicle …