Artificial intelligence for safety-critical systems in industrial and transportation domains: A survey

J Perez-Cerrolaza, J Abella, M Borg, C Donzella… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enable the development of next-generation autonomous safety-
critical systems in which Machine Learning (ML) algorithms learn optimized and safe …

Enforcing hard constraints with soft barriers: Safe reinforcement learning in unknown stochastic environments

Y Wang, SS Zhan, R Jiao, Z Wang… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an
unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state …

Polar: A polynomial arithmetic framework for verifying neural-network controlled systems

C Huang, J Fan, X Chen, W Li, Q Zhu - International Symposium on …, 2022 - Springer
We present POLAR (The source code can be found at https://github. com/ChaoHuang2018/
POLAR_Tool. The full version of this paper can be found at https://arxiv …

Learning representation for anomaly detection of vehicle trajectories

R Jiao, J Bai, X Liu, T Sato, X Yuan… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Predicting the future trajectories of surrounding vehicles based on their history trajectories is
a critical task in autonomous driving. However, when small crafted perturbations are …

Efficient global robustness certification of neural networks via interleaving twin-network encoding

Z Wang, C Huang, Q Zhu - 2022 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robustness of deep neural networks has received significant interest recently, especially
when being deployed in safety-critical systems, as it is important to analyze how sensitive …

Physics-aware safety-assured design of hierarchical neural network based planner

X Liu, C Huang, Y Wang, B Zheng… - 2022 ACM/IEEE 13th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural networks have shown great promises in planning, control, and general decision
making for learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (LE-CPSs), especially in improving …

Safety-assured speculative planning with adaptive prediction

X Liu, R Jiao, Y Wang, Y Han… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms
for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to …

Out-of-distribution detection for deep neural networks with isolation forest and local outlier factor

S Luan, Z Gu, LB Freidovich, L Jiang, Q Zhao - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are extensively deployed in today's safety-critical
autonomous systems thanks to their excellent performance. However, they are known to …

Waving the double-edged sword: Building resilient cavs with edge and cloud computing

X Liu, Y Luo, A Goeckner, T Chakraborty… - 2023 60th ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid advancement of edge and cloud computing platforms, vehicular ad-hoc networks,
and machine learning techniques have brought both opportunities and challenges for next …

Safety-driven interactive planning for neural network-based lane changing

X Liu, R Jiao, B Zheng, D Liang, Q Zhu - … of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neural network-based driving planners have shown great promises in improving task
performance of autonomous driving. However, it is critical and yet very challenging to ensure …