Safety-assured design and adaptation of learning-enabled autonomous systems

Q Zhu, C Huang, R Jiao, S Lan, H Liang, X Liu… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Future autonomous systems will employ sophisticated machine learning techniques for the
sensing and perception of the surroundings and the making corresponding decisions for …

Know the unknowns: Addressing disturbances and uncertainties in autonomous systems

Q Zhu, W Li, H Kim, Y Xiang, K Wardega… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Future autonomous systems will employ complex sensing, computation, and communication
components for their perception, planning, control, and coordination, and could operate in …

Towards assurance evaluation of autonomous systems

S Beland, I Chang, A Chen, M Moser… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Due to the probabilistic and uncertain nature of learning-enabled autonomous systems, new
assurance technologies appropriate for such systems are becoming critical for their …

Verification approaches for learning-enabled autonomous cyber–physical systems

HD Tran, W Xiang, TT Johnson - IEEE Design & Test, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Editor's notes: Neural network control systems are often at the heart of autonomous systems.
The authors classify existing verification methods for these systems and advocate the …

Reasoning about safety of learning-enabled components in autonomous cyber-physical systems

CE Tuncali, J Kapinski, H Ito… - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a simulation-based approach for generating barrier certificate functions for
safety verification of cyber-physical systems (CPS) that contain neural network-based …

Energy-efficient control adaptation with safety guarantees for learning-enabled cyber-physical systems

Y Wang, C Huang, Q Zhu - … of the 39th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Neural networks have been increasingly applied to control in learning-enabled cyber-
physical systems (LE-CPSs) and demonstrated great promises in improving system …

Towards a framework for safety assurance of autonomous systems

JA McDermid, Y Jia, I Habli - Artificial Intelligence Safety 2019, 2019 - pure.york.ac.uk
Autonomous systems have the potential to provide great benefit to society. However, they
also pose problems for safety assurance, whether fully auton-omous or remotely operated …

[HTML][HTML] MoDALAS: addressing assurance for learning-enabled autonomous systems in the face of uncertainty

MA Langford, KH Chan, JE Fleck, PK McKinley… - Software and Systems …, 2023 - Springer
Increasingly, safety-critical systems include artificial intelligence and machine learning
components (ie, learning-enabled components (LECs)). However, when behavior is learned …

Run-time assurance for learning-enabled systems

D Cofer, I Amundson, R Sattigeri, A Passi… - NASA Formal Methods …, 2020 - Springer
There has been much publicity surrounding the use of machine learning technologies in self-
driving cars and the challenges this presents for guaranteeing safety. These technologies …

RTA-IR: A runtime assurance framework for behavior planning based on imitation learning and responsibility-sensitive safety model

Y Peng, G Tan, H Si - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Current research on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in safety–critical areas remains
extremely challenging due to their inability to be fully verified at design time. In this paper …