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A major concern amongst AI safety practitioners is the possibility of loss of control, whereby humans lose the ability to exert control over increasingly advanced AI systems. The range of concerns is wide, spanning current day risks to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Steve Barrett , Anna Bruvere , Sean P. Fillingham , Catherine Rhodes , Stefano Vergani

This paper presents a novel, safe control architecture (SCA) for controlling an important class of systems: safety-critical systems. Ensuring the safety of control decisions has always been a challenge in automatic control. The proposed SCA…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Maryam Nezami , Georg Maennel , Hossam Seddik Abbas , Georg Schildbach

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a popular quality assurance technique in software engineering. However, integrating SAST tools into industry-level product development and security assessment poses various technical and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Manh Viet Do , Quan Luong Hong , Kiem Nguyen Khac

This paper presents a scenario generation framework that creates diverse, parametrized, and safety-critical driving situations to validate the safety features of autonomous vehicles in simulation [15]. By modeling factors such as road…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Kiruthiga Chandra Shekar , Aliasghar Moj Arab

Software testing is the process of determining the precision, quality, completeness and security of the software systems. An important step in testing software is the generation of test cases, whose quality plays a vital role in determining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Jai Manral

Teleoperation is becoming an essential feature in automated vehicle concepts, as it will help the industry overcome challenges facing automated vehicles today. Teleoperation follows the idea to get humans back into the loop for certain rare…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Simon Hoffmann , Frank Diermeyer

This paper proposes a Robust Safe Control Architecture (RSCA) for safe-decision making. The system to be controlled is a vehicle in the presence of bounded disturbances. The RSCA consists of two parts: a Supervisor MPC and a Controller MPC.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Maryam Nezami , Ngoc Thinh Nguyen , Georg Männel , Hossam Seddik Abbas , Georg Schildbach

Automated test generation based on symbolic execution can be beneficial for systematically testing safety-critical software, to facilitate test engineers to pursue the strict testing requirements mandated by the certification standards,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Elson Kurian , Daniela Briola , Pietro Braione , Giovanni Denaro

Ensuring a car's internal systems are free from security vulnerabilities is of utmost importance, especially due to the relationship between security and other properties, such as safety and reliability. We provide the starting point for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Eduardo dos Santos , Andrew Simpson , Dominik Schoop

Today statecharts are a de facto standard in industry for modeling system behavior. Test data generation is one of the key issues in software testing. This paper proposes an reduction approach to test data generation for the state-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Ranjita Kumari Swain , Prafulla Kumar Behera , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

The security of cyber-physical systems is first and foremost a safety problem, yet it is typically handled as a traditional security problem, which means that solutions are based on defending against threats and are often implemented too…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Bryan Carter , Georgios Bakirtzis , Carl Elks , Cody Fleming

We present a new approach to automated scenario-based testing of the safety of autonomous vehicles, especially those using advanced artificial intelligence-based components, spanning both simulation-based evaluation as well as testing in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Daniel J. Fremont , Edward Kim , Yash Vardhan Pant , Sanjit A. Seshia , Atul Acharya , Xantha Bruso , Paul Wells , Steve Lemke , Qiang Lu , Shalin Mehta

In modern automotive development, security testing is critical for safeguarding systems against increasingly advanced threats. Attack trees are widely used to systematically represent potential attack vectors, but generating comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tanmay Khule , Stefan Marksteiner , Jose Alguindigue , Hannes Fuchs , Sebastian Fischmeister , Apurva Narayan

The classical approach to design a system is based on a deterministic perspective where the assumption is that the system and its environment are fully predictable, and their behaviour is completely known to the designer. Although this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Hamed S Nejad , Tarannom Parhizkar , Ali Mosleh

Simulation-based testing has become a standard approach to validating autonomous driving agents prior to real-world deployment. A high-quality validation campaign will exercise an agent in diverse contexts comprised of varying static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Joy Saha , Trey Woodlief , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

Automatic testing of mobile applications has been a well-researched area in recent years. However, testing in industry is still a very manual practice, as research results have not been fully transferred and adopted. Considering mobile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Čaušević , Daniel Sundmark , Mårten Larsson

Existing neural network-based autonomous systems are shown to be vulnerable against adversarial attacks, therefore sophisticated evaluation on their robustness is of great importance. However, evaluating the robustness only under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Wenhao Ding , Baiming Chen , Bo Li , Kim Ji Eun , Ding Zhao

Classical approaches and procedures for testing of automated vehicles of SAE levels 1 and 2 were based on defined scenarios with specific maneuvers, depending on the function under test. For automated driving systems (ADS) of SAE level 3+,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Demin Nalic , Hexuan Li , Arno Eichberger , Christoph Wellershaus , Aleksa Pandurevic , Branko Rogic

Software testing has often to be done under severe pressure due to limited resources and a challenging time schedule facing the demand to assure the fulfillment of the software requirements. In addition, testing should unveil those software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Michael Felderer , Ina Schieferdecker

The software development process is considered as one of the key guidelines in the creation of said software and this approach is necessary for providing a more efficient yet satisfactory output. Without separation of work into distinct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Alya Hannah Ahmad Kamal , Caryn Chuah Yi Yen , Gan Jia Hui , Pang Sze Ling , Fatima-tuz-Zahra