Monitoring and diagnosability of perception systems

P Antonante, DI Spivak… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perception is a critical component of high-integrity applications of robotics and autonomous
systems, such as self-driving vehicles. In these applications, failure of perception systems …

Monitoring of perception systems: Deterministic, probabilistic, and learning-based fault detection and identification

P Antonante, HG Nilsen, L Carlone - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates runtime monitoring of perception systems. Perception is a critical
component of high-integrity applications of robotics and autonomous systems, such as self …

Modeling perception errors towards robust decision making in autonomous vehicles

A Piazzoni, J Cherian, M Slavik, J Dauwels - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Sensing and Perception (S&P) is a crucial component of an autonomous system (such as a
robot), especially when deployed in highly dynamic environments where it is required to …

[HTML][HTML] Fault diagnosis of the autonomous driving perception system based on information fusion

W Hou, W Li, P Li - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The reliability of autonomous driving sensing systems impacts the overall safety of the
driving system. However, perception system fault diagnosis is currently a weak area of …

Toward Reproducible Version-Controlled Perception Platforms: Embracing Simplicity in Autonomous Vehicle Dataset Acquisition

I Vizzo, B Mersch, L Nunes, L Wiesmann… - 2023 IEEE 26th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building datasets for autonomous vehicles has become an essential element of robotics
research. Numerous datasets were published, pushing the state-of-the-art forward. This …

A plausibility-based fault detection method for high-level fusion perception systems

F Geissler, A Unnervik… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trustworthy environment perception is the fundamental basis for the safe deployment of
automated agents such as self-driving vehicles or intelligent robots. The problem remains …

Learn to see fast: Lessons learned from autonomous racing on how to develop perception systems

F Sauerbeck, S Huch, F Fent, P Karle, D Kulmer… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this work is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the development
of autonomous vehicle perception systems. So far, most autonomy perception research has …

Towards requirements specification for machine-learned perception based on human performance

BC Hu, R Salay, K Czarnecki, M Rahimi… - 2020 IEEE Seventh …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The application of machine learning (ML) based perception algorithms in safety-critical
systems such as autonomous vehicles have raised major safety concerns due to the …

Testing rare downstream safety violations via upstream adaptive sampling of perception error models

C Innes, S Ramamoorthy - 2023 IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Testing black-box perceptual-control systems in simulation faces two difficulties. Firstly,
perceptual inputs in simulation lack the fidelity of real-world sensor inputs. Secondly, for a …

A distributed safety mechanism using middleware and hypervisors for autonomous vehicles

T Bijlsma, A Buriachevskyi, A Frigerio… - … , Automation & Test …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles use cyber-physical systems to provide comfort and safety to
passengers. Design of safety mechanisms for such systems is hindered by the growing …