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Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) have seen rapid progress in recent years. To ensure the safety and reliability of these systems, extensive testings are being conducted before their future mass deployment. Testing the system on the road is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ziyuan Zhong , Yun Tang , Yuan Zhou , Vania de Oliveira Neves , Yang Liu , Baishakhi Ray

Safety is one of the main challenges that prohibit autonomous vehicles (AV), requiring them to be well tested ahead of being allowed on the road. In comparison with road tests, simulators allow us to validate the AV conveniently and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-28 John Seymour , Dac-Thanh-Chuong Ho , Quang-Hung Luu

In the field of autonomous driving, online high-definition (HD) map reconstruction is crucial for planning tasks. Recent research has developed several high-performance HD map reconstruction models to meet this necessity. However, the point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Haotian Hu , Fanyi Wang , Yaonong Wang , Laifeng Hu , Jingwei Xu , Zhiwang Zhang

Safety testing serves as the fundamental pillar for the development of autonomous driving systems (ADSs). To ensure the safety of ADSs, it is paramount to generate a diverse range of safety-critical test scenarios. While existing ADS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haoxiang Tian , Xingshuo Han , Yuan Zhou , Guoquan Wu , An Guo , Mingfei Cheng , Shuo Li , Jun Wei , Tianwei Zhang

In this study, a single autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) aims to rendezvous with a submerged leader recovery vehicle through a cluttered and variable operating field. The rendezvous problem is transformed into a nonlinear optimal control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Somaiyeh Mahmoud Zadeh , Amir Mehdi Yazdani , Karl Sammut , David M. W Powers

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to produce planning trajectories from raw sensors directly. Currently, most approaches integrate perception, prediction, and planning modules into a fully differentiable network, promising great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Pengxuan Yang , Yupeng Zheng , Qichao Zhang , Kefei Zhu , Zebin Xing , Qiao Lin , Yun-Fu Liu , Zhiguo Su , Dongbin Zhao

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) is one of the primary drivers behind increasing levels of autonomy, driving comfort in this age of connected mobility. However, the performance of such systems is a function of execution rate which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Anirban Ghose , Srijeeta Maity , Arijit Kar , Kaustubh Maloo , Soumyajit Dey

Autonomous agents are limited in their ability to observe the world state. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) formally model the problem of planning under world state uncertainty, but POMDPs with continuous actions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dicong Qiu , Yibiao Zhao , Chris L. Baker

Finding the most likely path to a set of failure states is important to the analysis of safety-critical systems that operate over a sequence of time steps, such as aircraft collision avoidance systems and autonomous cars. In many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Ritchie Lee , Ole J. Mengshoel , Anshu Saksena , Ryan Gardner , Daniel Genin , Joshua Silbermann , Michael Owen , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) rely on sophisticated Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs) to provide passengers a satisfying and safe journey. The individual preferences of riders plays a crucial role in shaping the perception of safety and comfort…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Kun Wang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Yang Sun , Jun Sun , Jingyi Wang , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Generating safe and reliable trajectories for autonomous vehicles in long-tail scenarios remains a significant challenge, particularly for high-lateral-acceleration maneuvers such as sharp turns, which represent critical safety situations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xuemei Yao , Xiao Yang , Jianbin Sun , Liuwei Xie , Xuebin Shao , Xiyu Fang , Hang Su , Kewei Yang

Autonomous driving presents one of the largest problems that the robotics and artificial intelligence communities are facing at the moment, both in terms of difficulty and potential societal impact. Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) are expected…

Autonomous navigation in intelligent mobile systems represents a core research focus within artificial intelligence-driven robotics. Contemporary path planning approaches face constraints in dynamic environmental responsiveness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Junzhe Wang

In the realm of modern autonomous driving, the perception system is indispensable for accurately assessing the state of the surrounding environment, thereby enabling informed prediction and planning. The key step to this system is related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Feiyang Jia , Yadan Luo , Guoxin Zhang , Lei Yang , Li Wang , Caiyan Jia

As Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) progress towards commercial deployment, there is an increasing focus on ensuring their safety and reliability. While considerable research has been conducted on testing methods for detecting faults in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Nathan Shaw , Sanjeetha Pennada , Robert M Hierons , Donghwan Shin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the core component of modern autonomous driving systems. To date, it is still unrealistic that a DNN will generalize correctly in all driving conditions. Current testing techniques consist of offline…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Andrea Stocco , Michael Weiss , Marco Calzana , Paolo Tonella

Analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and uncertainties in modeling the plant dynamics are the main sources of imprecisions in the design cycle of model-based controllers. These implementation and model uncertainties should be addressed in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Mohammad Reza Amini , Mahdi Shahbakhti , Selina Pan , J. Karl Hedrick

Ensuring safe driving while maintaining travel efficiency for autonomous vehicles in dynamic and occluded environments is a critical challenge. This paper proposes an occlusion-aware contingency safety-critical planning approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lei Zheng , Rui Yang , Minzhe Zheng , Zengqi Peng , Michael Yu Wang , Jun Ma

The simulation-based testing of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs) has gained significant attention. However, current approaches often fall short of accurately assessing ADSs for two reasons: over-reliance on expert knowledge and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Ping Zhang , Lingfeng Ming , Tingyi Yuan , Cong Qiu , Yang Li , Xinhua Hui , Zhiquan Zhang , Chao Huang

Decision and control are core functionalities of high-level automated vehicles. Current mainstream methods, such as functionality decomposition and end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL), either suffer high time complexity or poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Guan , Yangang Ren , Qi Sun , Shengbo Eben Li , Haitong Ma , Jingliang Duan , Yifan Dai , Bo Cheng