Rules or specifications for autonomous vehicles are currently formulated on a case-by-case basis, and put together in a rather ad-hoc fashion. As a step towards eliminating this practice, we propose a systematic procedure for generating a set of supervisory specifications for self-driving cars that are 1) associated with a distributed assume-guarantee structure and 2) characterizable by the notion of consistency and completeness. Besides helping autonomous vehicles make better decisions on the road, the assume-guarantee contract structure also helps address the notion of blame when undesirable events occur. We give several game-theoretic examples to demonstrate applicability of our framework.
@article{arxiv.1909.04850,
title = {Towards Assume-Guarantee Profiles for Autonomous Vehicles},
author = {Tung Phan-Minh and Karena X. Cai and Richard M. Murray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04850},
year = {2019}
}