Discovering adversarial driving maneuvers against autonomous vehicles

R Song, MO Ozmen, H Kim, R Muller, ZB Celik… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Over 33% of vehicles sold in 2021 had integrated autonomous driving (AD) systems. While
many adversarial machine learning attacks have been studied against these systems, they …

Risk-aware scene sampling for dynamic assurance of autonomous systems

S Ramakrishna, B Luo, Y Barve… - … on Assured Autonomy …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems must often operate under uncertainties like sensor
degradation and shifts in the operating conditions, which increases its operational risk …

A scenario-based platform for testing autonomous vehicle behavior prediction models in simulation

F Indaheng, E Kim, K Viswanadha, J Shenoy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Behavior prediction remains one of the most challenging tasks in the autonomous vehicle
(AV) software stack. Forecasting the future trajectories of nearby agents plays a critical role …

Hierarchical potential-based reward shaping from task specifications

L Berducci, EA Aguilar, D Ničković, R Grosu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The automatic synthesis of policies for robotic-control tasks through reinforcement learning
relies on a reward signal that simultaneously captures many possibly conflicting …

Compositional Inductive Invariant Based Verification of Neural Network Controlled Systems

Y Zhou, S Tripakis - NASA Formal Methods Symposium, 2024 - Springer
The integration of neural networks into safety-critical systems has shown great potential in
recent years. However, the challenge of effectively verifying the safety of Neural Network …

Finding Safety Violations of AI-Enabled Control Systems through the Lens of Synthesized Proxy Programs

J Shi, Z Yang, J He, B Xu, D Kim, DG Han… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Given the increasing adoption of modern AI-enabled control systems, ensuring their safety
and reliability has become a critical task in software testing. One prevalent approach to …

Boundary adherence and exploration in high dimensions for validation of black-box systems

JM Thompson, Q Goss, Mİ Akbaş - 2022 IEEE 8th World Forum …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State space exploration is limited to a testing budget in which a finite amount of resources
can be expended to attain a degree of confidence in the system. A potential approach to …

Dynamic, Multi-objective Specification and Falsification of Autonomous CPS

KKC Chang, K Xu, E Kim… - … Conference on Runtime …, 2024 - Springer
Simulation-based falsification has proved to be an effective verification method for cyber-
physical systems. Traditional approaches to falsification take as input a single or a set of …

Querying Labeled Time Series Data with Scenario Programs

D Shanker - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17627, 2024 - arxiv.org
In order to ensure autonomous vehicles are safe for on-road deployment, simulation-based
testing has become an integral complement to on-road testing. The rise in simulation testing …

Safe policy improvement in constrained Markov decision processes

L Berducci, R Grosu - … Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal …, 2022 - Springer
The automatic synthesis of a policy through reinforcement learning (RL) from a given set of
formal requirements depends on the construction of a reward signal and consists of the …