Planning and decision-making for autonomous vehicles

W Schwarting, J Alonso-Mora… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we provide an overview of emerging trends and challenges in the field of
intelligent and autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles. Recent advances in the field of …

Formal methods to comply with rules of the road in autonomous driving: State of the art and grand challenges

N Mehdipour, M Althoff, RD Tebbens, C Belta - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a review of recent work on formal methods for autonomous driving. Formal
methods have been traditionally used to specify and verify the behavior of computer …

Liability, ethics, and culture-aware behavior specification using rulebooks

A Censi, K Slutsky, T Wongpiromsarn… - … on robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The behavior of self-driving cars must be compatible with an enormous set of conflicting and
ambiguous objectives, from law, from ethics, from the local culture, and so on. This paper …

Autonomous vehicle navigation in rural environments without detailed prior maps

T Ort, L Paull, D Rus - 2018 IEEE international conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State-of-the-art autonomous driving systems rely heavily on detailed and highly accurate
prior maps. However, outside of small urban areas, it is very challenging to build, store, and …

Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

Vehicle trajectory prediction using generative adversarial network with temporal logic syntax tree features

X Li, G Rosman, I Gilitschenski, CI Vasile… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose a novel approach for integrating rules into traffic agent trajectory
prediction. Consideration of rules is important for understanding how people behave-yet, it …

Probabilistic planning with formal performance guarantees for mobile service robots

B Lacerda, F Faruq, D Parker… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a framework for mobile service robot task planning and execution, based on the
use of probabilistic verification techniques for the generation of optimal policies with …

Specifying user preferences using weighted signal temporal logic

N Mehdipour, CI Vasile, C Belta - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We extend Signal Temporal Logic (STL) to enable the specification of importance and
priorities. The extension, called Weighted STL (wSTL), has the same qualitative (Boolean) …

Local observation based reactive temporal logic planning of human-robot systems

Z Zhou, S Wang, Z Chen, M Cai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-robot collaboration plays an important role in intelligent manufacturing. However,
the main challenge is how the robot can make online reactive changes to the plan based on …

Optimal probabilistic motion planning with potential infeasible LTL constraints

M Cai, S **ao, Z Li, Z Kan - IEEE transactions on automatic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies optimal motion planning subject to motion and environment uncertainties.
By modeling the system as a probabilistic labeled Markov decision process (PL-MDP), the …