MC-pix2pix generates high-quality synthetic sonar data for ATR systems.
problem Generating realistic synthetic sonar data for ATR systems.
method Markov Conditional pix2pix (MC-pix2pix) method.
result MC-pix2pix-generated data is almost indistinguishable from real sonar data.
Noncritical soft-faults and model deviations are a challenge for Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) of resident Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Such systems may have a faster performance degradation due to the permanent exposure to the marine environment, and constant monitoring of component conditions is requi…
Study uses AUVs and RL to map river plumes over multiple days.
problem Long-term mapping of dynamic river plumes with multiple AUVs.
method Multi-agent reinforcement learning with spatiotemporal GPR.
result Multi-agent approach outperforms single-agent and benchmarks.
In this paper, we first give the regular point reduction and the two types of Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a regular controlled Hamiltonian (RCH) system with symmetry and momentum map on the generalization of a semidirect product Lie group. Next, as an application of the theoretical results, we consider the underwater …
This paper investigates trajectory tracking problem for a class of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with unknown dynamics and constrained inputs. Different from existing policy gradient methods which employ single actor-critic but cannot realize satisfactory tracking control accuracy and stable learn…
The paper develops sampling methods for ocean phenomena based on temperature and salinity measurements.
problem Improving oceanographic sampling with limited resources.
method Design criterion based on uncertainty in excursions of vector-valued Gaussian random fields.
result Demonstrates effective exploration of ambiguous regions for data-driven sampling.
Adaptive framework generates challenging adversarial scenarios for autonomous vehicles.
problem Lack of efficient and adaptable evaluation methods for autonomous vehicles.
method Adaptive evaluation framework using ensemble models and nonparametric Bayesian clustering.
result Adversarial scenarios significantly degrade tested autonomous vehicles' performance.
The paper reviews machine learning safety techniques for autonomous vehicles.
problem Challenges in machine learning safety for autonomous vehicles.
method Organizes practical safety techniques to complement engineering safety.
result Enhances dependability and safety of machine learning algorithms in autonomous vehicles.
This work improves safety validation of autonomous vehicles by finding interpretable failures.
problem Finding interpretable failures of autonomous systems in simulation.
method Signal temporal logic expressions optimized for high likelihood and human interpretability.
result Our methodology finds more interpretable failures with higher likelihood compared to baseline approaches.
Autonomous Vehicles(AV) are one of the brightest promises of the future which would help cut down fatalities and improve travel time while working in harmony. Autonomous vehicles will face with challenging situations and experiences not seen before. These experiences should be converted to knowledge and help the vehicl…
Optimizes UUV hull design with a two-orders-of-magnitude speedup.
problem Designing efficient underwater vehicle hulls using CFD simulations.
method Bayesian Optimization-LCB algorithm and DNN-based surrogate model.
result Two-orders-of-magnitude speedup in design optimization process.
New approach uses dynamic programming to efficiently discover failures in autonomous vehicle simulations.
problem Efficiently discovering rare failure events in autonomous vehicle simulations.
method Approximate dynamic programming and scene decomposition to estimate failure distribution.
result Increased number of failures discovered compared to baseline approaches.
In a mixed-traffic scenario where both autonomous vehicles and human-driving vehicles exist, a timely prediction of driving intentions of nearby human-driving vehicles is essential for the safe and efficient driving of an autonomous vehicle. In this paper, a driving intention prediction method based on Hidden Markov Mo…
The paper tackles data-driven optimal control of unknown nonlinear systems using RKHS.
problem Unknown nonlinear dynamics and stage cost functions.
method Embed state densities into RKHS, learn Markov operators, solve Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman recursions.
result Solves a wide range of nonlinear control problems, including depth regulation.
Safe reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles using prediction constraints.
problem Safe reinforcement learning for safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicles.
method Use prediction to constrain exploration in reinforcement learning models.
result Successfully learned intersection handling behaviors on an autonomous vehicle.
A machine learning environment for detecting autonomous vehicle corner cases.
problem Testing autonomous driving software in the real world is difficult.
method Connecting CARLA simulation software to TensorFlow and custom AI client software.
result The system can identify situations where AI software fails to understand the scenario.
Proposes CTSDG model for better vehicle intention prediction across domains.
problem Domain generalization for vehicle intention prediction in dynamic environments.
method Structural causal model with recurrent latent variable integration.
result Consistent improvement in prediction accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Safe RL for autonomous vehicles using PCPO with trust regions and parallel learners.
problem Unexplainable behaviours and lack of safety guarantees in RL for real vehicles.
method PCPO framework with trust regions and parallel learners.
result Safe learning confirmed for autonomous vehicles with fast convergence.
Deep learning predicts vehicle behavior for safer autonomous driving.
problem Enhance autonomous vehicles' hazard awareness in complex environments.
method Review of deep learning-based approaches for vehicle behaviour prediction.
result Deep learning outperforms conventional methods in complex scenarios.
Determining possible failure scenarios is a critical step in the evaluation of autonomous vehicle systems. Real-world vehicle testing is commonly employed for autonomous vehicle validation, but the costs and time requirements are high. Consequently, simulation-driven methods such as Adaptive Stress Testing (AST) have b…
Real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles on FPGA reduces latency and power consumption.
problem Efficient real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles.
method Compressed ENet architecture, FPGA deployment, batch processing, filter reduction, quantization-aware training.
result Reduced latency to 3 ms per image with batch size of ten and 40% resource utilization.
Nowadays autonomous technologies are a very heavily explored area and particularly computer vision as the main component of vehicle perception. The quality of the whole vision system based on neural networks relies on the dataset it was trained on. It is extremely difficult to find traffic sign datasets from most of th…
This paper surveys DRL for autonomous vehicle motion planning.
problem Designing intelligent motion planning for autonomous vehicles.
method Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for hierarchical motion planning.
result Survey of state-of-the-art DRL solutions for autonomous vehicle motion planning.
This paper compares uncertainty estimation methods for deep learning in autonomous vehicles.
problem Ensuring safety in autonomous vehicles through accurate uncertainty quantification in deep learning models.
method A comparative survey of uncertainty quantification methods in deep neural networks.
result Different methods for uncertainty quantification in DNNs have advantages and downsides for specific AV tasks and types of uncertainty.
We address one of the crucial aspects necessary for safe and efficient operations of autonomous vehicles, namely predicting future state of traffic actors in the autonomous vehicle's surroundings. We introduce a deep learning-based approach that takes into account a current world state and produces raster images of eac…
The study improves deep learning models for safer autonomous vehicles.
problem Robustness of deep neural network models in autonomous driving.
method Analyzes and proposes solutions for deep learning model robustness.
result Enhanced deep learning models for safer autonomous vehicles.
Improved vehicle motion prediction with uncertainty estimation.
problem Robust motion prediction for autonomous vehicles, especially under distributional shift.
method Presented an approach significantly improving the benchmark and taking 2nd place on the leaderboard.
result Significantly improved motion prediction and uncertainty measurement.
We propose a method to compute optimal control paths for autonomous vehicles deployed for the purpose of inferring a velocity field. In addition to being advected by the flow, the vehicles are able to effect a fixed relative speed with arbitrary control over direction. It is this direction that is used as the basis for…
Paper presents a new port-Hamiltonian model for vehicle manipulators.
problem Complex mechanical systems' energy flow and conservation.
method Derives port-Hamiltonian dynamics from Hamiltonian reduction theory.
result Establishes mathematical equivalence with existing formulations.
This paper presents a method for testing the decision making systems of autonomous vehicles. Our approach involves perturbing stochastic elements in the vehicle's environment until the vehicle is involved in a collision. Instead of applying direct Monte Carlo sampling to find collision scenarios, we formulate the probl…
This research predicts vehicle movements by analyzing their intentions relative to road lanes.
problem Accurately forecasting vehicles' future movements for safe autonomous driving.
method LSTM networks with attention mechanisms applied to spatio-temporal graphs of road lanes.
result The model outperforms other state-of-the-art models in several metrics.
Deep learning improves vehicle control performance and generalizes well.
problem Designing a controller for autonomous vehicles in diverse scenarios.
method Application of deep learning methods for vehicle control.
result Deep learning methods provide excellent performance and generalization.
This paper compares machine learning methods for recognizing lane change intentions from vehicle trajectories.
problem Accurately detecting and predicting lane change processes in autonomous vehicles.
method Comparison of different machine learning methods on high-dimensional time series data.
result Ensemble methods reduce Type II and Type III classification errors, while LightGBM outperforms XGBoost in training efficiency.
A tree-based IDS detects cyber-attacks in AV networks.
problem Cyber-attacks in AV and IoV networks.
method Tree-structure machine learning models, ensemble learning, feature selection.
result High detection rate and low computational cost achieved.
Automated testing framework finds weaknesses in deep control policies.
problem Safety of deep neural network control policies is difficult to validate.
method Adversarial reinforcement learning to test and find weaknesses.
result Framework finds weaknesses not evident during manual testing.
Backdoor attacks on DRL-based traffic controllers cause stop-and-go waves or crashes.
problem Vulnerability of DRL-based traffic controllers to machine learning attacks.
method Developed a trigger design methodology based on traffic physics principles.
result Backdoored models can cause stop-and-go traffic waves or AV crashes when triggered.
To improve efficiency and reduce failures in autonomous vehicles, research has focused on developing robust and safe learning methods that take into account disturbances in the environment. Existing literature in robust reinforcement learning poses the learning problem as a two player game between the autonomous system…
Robust detection and tracking of objects is crucial for the deployment of autonomous vehicle technology. Image based benchmark datasets have driven development in computer vision tasks such as object detection, tracking and segmentation of agents in the environment. Most autonomous vehicles, however, carry a combinatio…
A hybrid model combines Q-learning and PID controller for continuous vehicle control.
problem Learning unsatisfactory results with discrete action space in autonomous driving.
method Combining Q-learning and PID controller, using Quadratic Q-function approximation and action network.
result Autonomous vehicle successfully learns smooth and efficient driving behavior.
Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for future autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches fix the number of driving intentions by considering only a specific scenario. However, distinct driving environments usually contain various possible driving…
We demonstrate the first application of deep reinforcement learning to autonomous driving. From randomly initialised parameters, our model is able to learn a policy for lane following in a handful of training episodes using a single monocular image as input. We provide a general and easy to obtain reward: the distance …
Autonomous vehicles are expected to navigate in complex traffic scenarios with multiple surrounding vehicles. The correlations between road users vary over time, the degree of which, in theory, could be infinitely large, thus posing a great challenge in modeling and predicting the driving environment. In this paper, we…
In a given scenario, simultaneously and accurately predicting every possible interaction of traffic participants is an important capability for autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches focused on the prediction of an single entity without incorporating the environment information. Although some approache…
This work improves autonomous racing by creating diverse opponents and adapting risk.
problem Balancing performance and safety in autonomous racing environments.
method Developed a self-play method using replica-exchange Markov chain Monte Carlo for diverse opponents and a distributionally robust bandit optimization for adaptive risk adjustment.
result Demonstrated real-time motion-planning methods achieving speeds comparable to Formula One racecars.
Improved UAV navigation and landing using deep learning.
problem Autonomous navigation and landing of UAVs with high accuracy.
method Multimodal fusion of visual and inertial sensor data using deep neural networks.
result 25% improvement in pose estimation accuracy compared to traditional methods.
TensorFI injects faults in TensorFlow programs to assess their reliability.
problem Ensuring reliability of machine learning systems in safety-critical domains.
method TensorFI is a flexible fault injection framework for TensorFlow applications.
result TensorFI evaluates the resilience of 12 ML programs, including autonomous vehicle DNNs.
Paper proposes methods to help autonomous vehicles adapt to unexpected driving scenarios.
problem Autonomous vehicles struggle with unexpected driving conditions.
method Robust imitative planning (RIP) and adaptive robust imitative planning (AdaRIP) methods to detect and adapt to distribution shifts.
result Methods outperform current state-of-the-art approaches in nuScenes prediction challenge.
SECRM-2D improves RL-based autonomous driving with safety guarantees.
problem Safety and efficiency trade-offs in RL-based autonomous driving.
method RL-based controller with safety constraints for efficient and comfortable driving.
result SECRM-2D avoids crashes and improves efficiency and comfort compared to baselines.