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AI-based systems can increasingly perform work tasks autonomously. In safety-critical tasks, human oversight of these systems is required to mitigate risks and to ensure responsibility in case something goes wrong. Since people often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Cedric Faas , Richard Uth , Sarah Sterz , Markus Langer , Anna Maria Feit

Safety architectures play a crucial role in the safety assurance of automated driving vehicles (ADVs). They can be used as safety envelopes of black-box ADV controllers, and for graceful degradation from one ODD to another. Building on our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut , James Haydon , Ichiro Hasuo

Artificial intelligence is currently powering diverse real-world applications. These applications have shown promising performance, but raise complicated ethical issues, i.e. how to embed ethics to make AI applications behave morally. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yujin Jeong , Seongbeom Park , Suhong Moon , Jinkyu Kim

Simulation-based testing plays a critical role in evaluating the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems (ADSs). However, one of the key challenges in ADS testing is the complexity of preparing and configuring simulation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mingfei Cheng , Yuan Zhou , Xiaofei Xie

This paper proposes an extensive overview of safety applications and approaches as it relates to automated driving from the prospectives of sensor configurations, vehicle dynamics modelling, tyre modeling, and estimation approaches. First,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Hazem Fahmy , Sabita Mahrajan

As autonomous driving systems (ADSes) become increasingly complex and integral to daily life, the importance of understanding the nature and mitigation of software bugs in these systems has grown correspondingly. Addressing the challenges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuntianyi Chen , Yuqi Huai , Yirui He , Shilong Li , Changnam Hong , Qi Alfred Chen , Joshua Garcia

Autonomous driving functions (ADFs) in public traffic have to comply with complex system requirements that are based on knowledge of experts from different disciplines, e.g., lawyers, safety experts, psychologists. In this paper, we present…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Dominik Grundt , Anna Köhne , Ishan Saxena , Ralf Stemmer , Bernd Westphal , Eike Möhlmann

Moral AI has been studied in the fields of philosophy and artificial intelligence. Although most existing studies are only theoretical, recent developments in AI have made it increasingly necessary to implement AI with morality. On the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Masashi Takeshita , Rzepka Rafal , Kenji Araki

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being used to predict and assess behaviour in multiple domains, such as criminal justice and consumer finance, which directly affect human well-being. However, if AI is to improve people's…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Andrea Aler Tubella , Andreas Theodorou , Virginia Dignum , Frank Dignum

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) raise important questions about whether people view moral evaluations by AI systems similarly to human-generated moral evaluations. We conducted a modified Moral Turing Test (m-MTT), inspired by…

Trust in robots has been gathering attention from multiple directions, as it has special relevance in the theoretical descriptions of human-robot interactions. It is essential for reaching high acceptance and usage rates of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Hebert Azevedo-Sa , X. Jessie Yang , Lionel P. Robert , Dawn M. Tilbury

Autonomous driving systems (ADSs) are capable of sensing the environment and making driving decisions autonomously. These systems are safety-critical, and testing them is one of the important approaches to ensure their safety. However, due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chengjie Lu , Tao Yue , Man Zhang , Shaukat Ali

Progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence has spurred the widespread adoption of automated decision systems (ADS). An extensive literature explores what conditions must be met for these systems' decisions to be fair. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Jake Stone , Brent Mittelstadt

The rapidly evolving field of autonomous driving systems (ADSs) is full of promise. However, in order to fulfil these promises, ADSs need to be safe in all circumstances. This paper introduces ISS-Scenario, an autonomous driving testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Renjue Li , Tianhang Qin , Cas Widdershoven

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly widespread in system development endeavors. As AI systems affect various stakeholders due to their unique nature, the growing influence of these systems calls for ethical considerations.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ville Vakkuri , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Pekka Abrahamsson

Many organizations are developing autonomous driving systems, which are expected to be deployed at a large scale in the near future. Despite this, there is a lack of agreement on appropriate methods to test, debug, and certify the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Cumhur Erkan Tuncali , Georgios Fainekos , Hisahiro Ito , James Kapinski

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) often rely on deep neural networks to interpret driving images and support vehicle control. Although reliable under nominal conditions, these systems remain vulnerable to input variations and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hannes Leonhard , Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi , Andrea Stocco

The recent rise in popularity of large language models (LLMs) has prompted considerable concerns about their moral capabilities. Although considerable effort has been dedicated to aligning LLMs with human moral values, existing benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Alessio Galatolo , Luca Alberto Rappuoli , Katie Winkle , Meriem Beloucif

Search-based software testing (SBT) is an effective and efficient approach for testing automated driving systems (ADS). However, testing pipelines for ADS testing are particularly challenging as they involve integrating complex driving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Lev Sorokin , Tiziano Munaro , Damir Safin , Brian Hsuan-Cheng Liao , Adam Molin

Machine ethics has received increasing attention over the past few years because of the need to ensure safe and reliable artificial intelligence (AI). The two dominantly used theories in machine ethics are deontological and utilitarian…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ajay Vishwanath , Einar Duenger Bøhn , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Charl Maree , Christian Omlin