A survey of algorithms for black-box safety validation of cyber-physical systems

A Corso, R Moss, M Koren, R Lee… - Journal of Artificial …, 2021 - jair.org
Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) can improve safety and efficiency for safety-
critical applications, but require rigorous testing before deployment. The complexity of these …

[图书][B] Planning algorithms

SM LaValle - 2006 - books.google.com
Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world,
including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace …

Particle RRT for path planning with uncertainty

NA Melchior, R Simmons - Proceedings 2007 IEEE …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a new extension to the rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) path
planning algorithm. The particle RRT algorithm explicitly considers uncertainty in its domain …

Probabilistic temporal logic falsification of cyber-physical systems

H Abbas, G Fainekos, S Sankaranarayanan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We present a Monte-Carlo optimization technique for finding system behaviors that falsify a
metric temporal logic (MTL) property. Our approach performs a random walk over the space …

Motion planning with dynamics by a synergistic combination of layers of planning

E Plaku, LE Kavraki, MY Vardi - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To efficiently solve challenges related to motion-planning problems with dynamics, this
paper proposes treating motion planning not just as a search problem in a continuous space …

Monte-carlo techniques for falsification of temporal properties of non-linear hybrid systems

T Nghiem, S Sankaranarayanan, G Fainekos… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We present a Monte-Carlo optimization technique for finding inputs to a system that falsify a
given Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) property. Our approach performs a random walk over the …

Falsification of temporal properties of hybrid systems using the cross-entropy method

S Sankaranarayanan, G Fainekos - Proceedings of the 15th ACM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Randomized testing is a popular approach for checking properties of large embedded
system designs. It is well known that a uniform random choice of test inputs is often sub …

Neural bridge sampling for evaluating safety-critical autonomous systems

A Sinha, M O'Kelly, R Tedrake… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning-based methodologies increasingly find applications in safety-critical domains like
autonomous driving and medical robotics. Due to the rare nature of dangerous events, real …

High-frequency replanning under uncertainty using parallel sampling-based motion planning

W Sun, S Patil, R Alterovitz - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As sampling-based motion planners become faster, they can be reexecuted more frequently
by a robot during task execution to react to uncertainty in robot motion, obstacle motion …

Robustness of temporal logic specifications

GE Fainekos, GJ Pappas - … Workshop on Formal Approaches to Software …, 2006 - Springer
In this paper, we consider the robust interpretation of metric temporal logic (MTL) formulas
over timed sequences of states. For systems whose states are equipped with nontrivial …