Conformal decision theory: Safe autonomous decisions from imperfect predictions

J Lekeufack, AN Angelopoulos, A Bajcsy… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce Conformal Decision Theory, a framework for producing safe autonomous
decisions despite imperfect machine learning predictions. Examples of such decisions are …

Adaptive bounding box uncertainties via two-step conformal prediction

A Timans, CN Straehle, K Sakmann… - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Quantifying a model's predictive uncertainty is essential for safety-critical applications such
as autonomous driving. We consider quantifying such uncertainty for multi-object detection …

Learning-aware safety for interactive autonomy

H Hu, Z Zhang, K Nakamura, A Bajcsy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
One of the outstanding challenges for the widespread deployment of robotic systems like
autonomous vehicles is ensuring safe interaction with humans without sacrificing efficiency …

Recursively feasible shrinking-horizon mpc in dynamic environments with conformal prediction guarantees

C Stamouli, L Lindemann… - 6th Annual Learning for …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we focus on the problem of shrinking-horizon Model Predictive Control (MPC)
in uncertain dynamic environments. We consider controlling a deterministic autonomous …

Distributionally robust statistical verification with imprecise neural networks

S Dutta, M Caprio, V Lin, M Cleaveland… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A particularly challenging problem in AI safety is providing guarantees on the behavior of
high-dimensional autonomous systems. Verification approaches centered around …

How safe am i given what i see? calibrated prediction of safety chances for image-controlled autonomy

Z Mao, C Sobolewski, I Ruchkin - 6th Annual Learning for …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
End-to-end learning has emerged as a major paradigm for developing autonomous
controllers. Unfortunately, with its performance and convenience comes an even greater …

Deception game: Closing the safety-learning loop in interactive robot autonomy

H Hu, Z Zhang, K Nakamura, A Bajcsy… - 7th Annual Conference …, 2023 - openreview.net
An outstanding challenge for the widespread deployment of robotic systems like
autonomous vehicles is ensuring safe interaction with humans without sacrificing …

[PDF][PDF] Signal temporal logic control synthesis among uncontrollable dynamic agents with conformal prediction

X Yu, Y Zhao, X Yin, L Lindemann - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
The control of dynamical systems under temporal logic specifications among uncontrollable
dynamic agents is challenging due to the agents'a-priori unknown behavior. Existing works …

Conformal predictive safety filter for rl controllers in dynamic environments

KJ Strawn, N Ayanian… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interest in using reinforcement learning (RL) controllers in safety-critical applications
such as robot navigation around pedestrians motivates the development of additional safety …

[PDF][PDF] Scalable safe long-horizon planning in dynamic environments leveraging conformal prediction and temporal correlations

S Tonkens, S Sun, R Yu… - Long-Term …, 2023 - motionpredictionicra2023.github.io
Safe and effective planning in cluttered and diverse scenes that include the presence of
other agents, requires a robot that is (1) equipped with a state-of-the-art autonomy stack and …