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My project tackles the question of whether Ray can be used to quickly train autonomous vehicles using a simulator (Carla), and whether a platform robust enough for further research purposes can be built around it. Ray is an open-source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Derek Xu

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) aim to improve traffic safety and efficiency by reducing human error. However, ensuring AVs reliability and safety is a challenging task when rare, high-risk traffic scenarios are considered. These 'Corner Cases'…

Search-based testing is critical for evaluating the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems (ADSs). However, existing approaches are often built on heterogeneous frameworks (e.g., distinct scenario spaces, simulators, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Mingfei Cheng , Lionel Briand , Yuan Zhou

Game engines are increasingly used as simulation platforms by the autonomous vehicle (AV) community to develop vehicle control systems and test environments. A key requirement for simulation-based development and verification is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Greg Chance , Abanoub Ghobrial , Kevin McAreavey , Severin Lemaignan , Tony Pipe , Kerstin Eder

A prerequisite for safe autonomy-in-the-wild is safe testing-in-the-wild. Yet real-world autonomous tests face several unique safety challenges, both due to the possibility of causing harm during a test, as well as the risk of encountering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Silen Naihin , David Atkinson , Marc Green , Merwane Hamadi , Craig Swift , Douglas Schonholtz , Adam Tauman Kalai , David Bau

We present the CARLA corner case simulation (3CSim) for evaluating autonomous driving (AD) systems within the CARLA simulator. This framework is designed to address the limitations of traditional AD model training by focusing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Matúš Čávojský , Eugen Šlapak , Matúš Dopiriak , Gabriel Bugár , Juraj Gazda

The CARLA simulator (Car Learning to Act) serves as a robust platform for testing algorithms and generating datasets in the field of Autonomous Driving (AD). It provides control over various environmental parameters, enabling thorough…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mohamad Mofeed Chaar , Jamal Raiyn , Galia Weidl

A new agent architecture called Limited Instruction Set Agent (LISA) is introduced for autonomous control. The new architecture is based on previous implementations of AgentSpeak and it is structurally simpler than its predecessors with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Izzo , Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres

This paper proposes an adaptable path tracking control system based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) for autonomous cars. A four-parameter controller shapes the behavior of the vehicle to navigate on lane changes and roundabouts. The tuning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Ana Carrasco , João Sequeira

Software testing is an important part of the development cycle, yet it requires specialized expertise and substantial developer effort to adequately test software. Recent discoveries of the capabilities of large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Robert Feldt , Sungmin Kang , Juyeon Yoon , Shin Yoo

Behavior prediction remains one of the most challenging tasks in the autonomous vehicle (AV) software stack. Forecasting the future trajectories of nearby agents plays a critical role in ensuring road safety, as it equips AVs with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Francis Indaheng , Edward Kim , Kesav Viswanadha , Jay Shenoy , Jinkyu Kim , Daniel J. Fremont , Sanjit A. Seshia

The development of autonomous agents increasingly relies on Multimodal Language Models (MLMs) to perform tasks described in natural language with GUI environments, such as websites, desktop computers, or mobile phones. Existing benchmarks…

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

We introduce ApolloRL, an open platform for research in reinforcement learning for autonomous driving. The platform provides a complete closed-loop pipeline with training, simulation, and evaluation components. It comes with 300 hours of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fei Gao , Peng Geng , Jiaqi Guo , Yuan Liu , Dingfeng Guo , Yabo Su , Jie Zhou , Xiao Wei , Jin Li , Xu Liu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a potent tool for sequential decision-making and has achieved performance surpassing human capabilities across many challenging real-world tasks. As the extension of RL in the multi-agent system domain,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruiqi Zhang , Jing Hou , Florian Walter , Shangding Gu , Jiayi Guan , Florian Röhrbein , Yali Du , Panpan Cai , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll

Autonomous systems such as self-driving cars and general-purpose robots are safety-critical systems that operate in highly uncertain and dynamic environments. We propose an interactive multi-agent framework where the system-under-design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Xin Qin , Nikos Aréchiga , Andrew Best , Jyotirmoy Deshmukh

Simulation agents are essential for designing and testing systems that interact with humans, such as autonomous vehicles (AVs). These agents serve various purposes, from benchmarking AV performance to stress-testing system limits, but all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Daphne Cornelisse , Aarav Pandya , Kevin Joseph , Joseph Suárez , Eugene Vinitsky

Against the backdrop of advancing science and technology, autonomous vehicle technology has emerged as a focal point of intense scrutiny within the academic community. Nevertheless, the challenge persists in guaranteeing the safety and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-03 JiaQi Luo

Growth of software size, lack of resources to perform regression testing, and failure to detect bugs faster have seen increased reliance on continuous integration and test automation. Even with greater hardware and software resources…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Eduard Enoiu , Mirgita Frasheri

Autonomous vehicle software is typically structured as a modular pipeline of individual components (e.g., perception, prediction, and planning) to help separate concerns into interpretable sub-tasks. Even when end-to-end training is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Rowan McAllister , Blake Wulfe , Jean Mercat , Logan Ellis , Sergey Levine , Adrien Gaidon