Formal methods to comply with rules of the road in autonomous driving: State of the art and grand challenges

N Mehdipour, M Althoff, RD Tebbens, C Belta - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a review of recent work on formal methods for autonomous driving. Formal
methods have been traditionally used to specify and verify the behavior of computer …

Safe planning and control under uncertainty for self-driving

S Khaitan, Q Lin, JM Dolan - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning under uncertainty is critical for safe self-driving. This paper proposes a
unified obstacle avoidance framework that deals with 1) uncertainty in ego-vehicle motion; …

Safe planning for self-driving via adaptive constrained ILQR

Y Pan, Q Lin, H Shah, JM Dolan - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Constrained Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (CILQR), a variant of ILQR, has been
recently proposed for motion planning problems of autonomous vehicles to deal with …

Formally verified self-adaptation of an incubator digital twin

T Wright, C Gomes, J Woodcock - International Symposium on Leveraging …, 2022 - Springer
The performance and reliability of Cyber-Physical Systems are increasingly aided through
the use of digital twins, which mirror the static and dynamic behaviour of a Cyber-Physical …

The black-box simplex architecture for runtime assurance of autonomous CPS

U Mehmood, S Sheikhi, S Bak, SA Smolka… - NASA formal methods …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Simplex Architecture is a runtime assurance framework where control authority
may switch from an unverified and potentially unsafe advanced controller to a backup …

A verification framework for certifying learning-based safety-critical aviation systems

A Baheri, H Ren, B Johnson, P Razzaghi… - AIAA AVIATION 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-3965. vid We present a safety
verification framework for design-time and run-time assurance of learning-based …

Safe cps from unsafe controllers

U Mehmood, S Bak, SA Smolka, SD Stoller - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) interact with the physical world, hence their
correctness is important. In this work, we build upon the Simplex Architecture, where control …

An Empirical Analysis of the Use of Real-Time Reachability for the Safety Assurance of Autonomous Vehicles

P Musau, N Hamilton, DM Lopez, P Robinette… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in machine learning technologies and sensing have paved the way for the
belief that safe, accessible, and convenient autonomous vehicles may be realized in the …

The black-box simplex architecture for runtime assurance of multi-agent CPS

S Sheikhi, U Mehmood, S Bak, SA Smolka… - Innovations in Systems …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Simplex Architecture is a runtime assurance framework where control authority
may switch from an unverified and potentially unsafe advanced controller to a backup …

Online Reachability Analysis and Space Convexification for Autonomous Racing

S Bogomolov, TT Johnson, DM Lopez, P Musau… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents an optimisation-based approach for an obstacle avoidance problem
within an autonomous vehicle racing context. Our control regime leverages online …