A survey of algorithms for black-box safety validation of cyber-physical systems

A Corso, R Moss, M Koren, R Lee… - Journal of Artificial …, 2021 - jair.org
Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) can improve safety and efficiency for safety-
critical applications, but require rigorous testing before deployment. The complexity of these …

Generating avoidable collision scenarios for testing autonomous driving systems

A Calò, P Arcaini, S Ali, F Hauer… - 2020 IEEE 13th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated and autonomous driving systems (ADS) are a transformational technology in the
mobility sector. Current practice for testing ADS uses virtual tests in computer simulations; …

Did we test all scenarios for automated and autonomous driving systems?

F Hauer, T Schmidt, B Holzmüller… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To ensure safety and functional correctness of automated and autonomous driving systems,
virtual scenario-based testing is used. Experts derive traffic scenario types and generate …

Testing scenario library generation for connected and automated vehicles: An adaptive framework

S Feng, Y Feng, H Sun, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How to generate testing scenario libraries for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is a
major challenge faced by the industry. In previous studies, to evaluate maneuver challenge …

Automated identification and qualitative characterization of safety concerns reported in uav software platforms

A Di Sorbo, F Zampetti, A Visaggio, M Di Penta… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are nowadays used in a variety of applications. Given the
cyber-physical nature of UAVs, software defects in these systems can cause issues with …

Effective hybrid system falsification using Monte Carlo tree search guided by QB-robustness

Z Zhang, D Lyu, P Arcaini, L Ma, I Hasuo… - … Conference on Computer …, 2021 - Springer
Hybrid system falsification is an important quality assurance method for cyber-physical
systems with the advantage of scalability and feasibility in practice than exhaustive …

Identification of test cases for automated driving systems using bayesian optimization

B Gangopadhyay, S Khastgir, S Dey… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advancements in technology, the automotive industry is experiencing a paradigm shift
from assisted driving to highly automated driving. However, autonomous driving systems are …

[PDF][PDF] Paracosm: A Test Framework for Autonomous Driving Simulations

R Majumdar, A Mathur, M Pirron… - International …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
Systematic testing of autonomous vehicles operating in complex real-world scenarios is a
difficult and expensive problem. We present Paracosm, a framework for writing systematic …

Experience paper: Search-based testing in automated driving control applications

C Gladisch, T Heinz, C Heinzemann… - 2019 34th IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated test generation and evaluation in simulation environments is a key technology for
verification of automated driving (AD) applications. Search-based testing (SBT) is an …

A quality diversity approach to automatically generating human-robot interaction scenarios in shared autonomy

M Fontaine, S Nikolaidis - arxiv preprint arxiv:2012.04283, 2020 - arxiv.org
The growth of scale and complexity of interactions between humans and robots highlights
the need for new computational methods to automatically evaluate novel algorithms and …