Learning Configurations of Operating Environment of Autonomous Vehicles to Maximize their Collisions
Autonomous vehicles must operate safely in their dynamic and continuously-changing environment. However, the operating environment of an autonomous vehicle is complicated and full of various types of uncertainties. Additionally, the operating environment has many configurations, including static and dynamic obstacles with which an autonomous vehicle must avoid collisions. Though various approaches targeting environment configuration for autonomous vehicles have shown promising results, their effectiveness in dealing with a continuous-changing environment is limited. Thus, it is essential to learn realistic environment configurations of continuously-changing environment, under which an autonomous vehicle should be tested regarding its ability to avoid collisions. Featured with agents dynamically interacting with the environment, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great potential in dealing with complicated problems requiring adapting to the environment. To this end, we present an RL-based environment configuration learning approach, i.e., \textit{DeepCollision}, which intelligently learns environment configurations that lead an autonomous vehicle to crash. DeepCollision employs Deep Q-Learning as the RL solution, and selects \textit{collision probability} as the safety measure, to construct the reward function. We trained four DeepCollision models and conducted an experiment to compare them with two baselines, i.e., random and greedy. Results show that DeepCollision demonstrated significantly better effectiveness in generating collisions compared with the baselines. We also provide recommendations on configuring DeepCollision with the most suitable time interval based on different road structures.
Fri 19 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
13:45 - 15:15 | Cyber-physical systems developmentSEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Journal-First Papers / DEMO - Demonstrations at Meeting Room 102 Chair(s): Andrzej Wąsowski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
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14:00 15mTalk | Automated Misconfiguration Repair of Configurable Cyber-Physical Systems with Search: an Industrial Case Study on Elevator Dispatching Algorithms SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Pre-print | ||
14:15 7mTalk | WirelessDT: A Digital Twin Platform for Real-Time Evaluation of Wireless Software Applications DEMO - Demonstrations Zhongzheng Lai The University of Sydney, Dong Yuan The University of Sydney, Huaming Chen The University of Sydney, Yu Zhang The University of Sydney, Wei Bao The University of Sydney Media Attached | ||
14:22 7mTalk | MROS: A framework for robot self-adaptation DEMO - Demonstrations Gustavo Rezende Silva Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Darko Bozhinoski Université Libre de Bruxelles, Mario Garzon Oviedo Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Mariano Ramírez Montero Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Nadia Hammoudeh Garcia Fraunhofer IPA, Harshavardhan Deshpande Fraunhofer IPA, Andrzej Wąsowski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Carlos Hernández Corbato Delft University of Technology | ||
14:30 7mTalk | Mind the Gap! A Study on the Transferability of Virtual vs Physical-world Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Journal-First Papers Andrea Stocco Technical University of Munich & fortiss, Brian Pulfer University of Geneva, Paolo Tonella USI Lugano | ||
14:37 7mTalk | Uncertainty-aware Prediction Validator in Deep Learning Models for Cyber-physical System Data (Journal First Presentation) Journal-First Papers Ferhat Ozgur Catak University of Stavanger, Norway, Tao Yue Simula Research Laboratory, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory | ||
14:45 7mTalk | Uncertainty-aware Robustness Assessment of Industrial Elevator Systems Journal-First Papers Liping Han Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Simula Research Laboratory, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory, Tao Yue Simula Research Laboratory, Aitor Arrieta Mondragon University, Maite Arratibel Orona | ||
14:52 7mTalk | Learning Configurations of Operating Environment of Autonomous Vehicles to Maximize their Collisions Journal-First Papers Chengjie Lu Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Shi Yize Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Huihui Zhang Weifang University, Man Zhang Kristiania University, Tiexin Wang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tao Yue Simula Research Laboratory, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
15:00 7mTalk | FalsifAI: Falsification of AI-Enabled Hybrid Control Systems Guided by Time-Aware Coverage Criteria Journal-First Papers Zhenya Zhang Kyushu University, Deyun Lyu Kyushu university, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics
, Lei Ma University of Alberta, Ichiro Hasuo National Institute of Informatics, Japan, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University Link to publication DOI |