Mind the gap! A study on the transferability of virtual versus physical-world testing of autonomous driving systems

A Stocco, B Pulfer, P Tonella - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe deployment of self-driving cars (SDC) necessitates thorough simulated and in-field
testing. Most testing techniques consider virtualized SDCs within a simulation environment …

Runtime Verification and Field-Based Testing for ROS-Based Robotic Systems

R Caldas, JAP García, M Schiopu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic systems are becoming pervasive and adopted in increasingly many domains, such
as manufacturing, healthcare, and space exploration. To this end, engineering software has …

Simulation-based test case generation for unmanned aerial vehicles in the neighborhood of real flights

S Khatiri, S Panichella, P Tonella - 2023 IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are acquiring increasing
autonomy. With their commercial adoption, the problem of testing their functional and non …

Model vs system level testing of autonomous driving systems: a replication and extension study

A Stocco, B Pulfer, P Tonella - Empirical Software Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Offline model-level testing of autonomous driving software is much cheaper, faster, and
diversified than in-field, online system-level testing. Hence, researchers have compared …

Understanding URDF: A survey based on user experience

D Tola, P Corke - 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing complexity of robot systems, it is necessary to simulate them before
deployment. To do this, a model of the robot's kinematics or dynamics is required. One of the …

Understanding URDF: A dataset and analysis

D Tola, P Corke - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complexity of robot systems is rising which makes it increasingly effective to simulate
before deployment. To do this, a model of the robot's kinematics or dynamics is required …

Boundary state generation for testing and improvement of autonomous driving systems

M Biagiola, P Tonella - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and sensor technologies are enabling
autonomous driving systems (ADSs) with an ever-increasing level of autonomy. However …

Assessing Quality Metrics for Neural Reality Gap Input Mitigation in Autonomous Driving Testing

SC Lambertenghi, A Stocco - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18577, 2024 - arxiv.org
Simulation-based testing of automated driving systems (ADS) is the industry standard, being
a controlled, safe, and cost-effective alternative to real-world testing. Despite these …

[HTML][HTML] Cost-effective simulation-based test selection in self-driving cars software

C Birchler, N Ganz, S Khatiri, A Gambi… - Science of Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Simulation environments are essential for the continuous development of complex cyber-
physical systems such as self-driving cars (SDCs). Previous results on simulation-based …

Mithra: Anomaly detection as an oracle for cyberphysical systems

A Afzal, C Le Goues… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Testing plays an essential role in ensuring the safety and quality of cyberphysical systems
(CPSs). One of the main challenges in automated and software-in-the-loop simulation …