SEAMS 2026
Mon 13 - Tue 14 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026
Tue 14 Apr 2026 14:40 - 14:55 at Oceania II - Autonomous, Robotic & Cyber-Physical Systems Chair(s): Matteo Camilli

In addition to environmental-based uncertainty conditions, self-adaptive Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) must be able to handle uncertainty posed by external human drivers sharing the operating environment. Existing search-based AV testing approaches have explored objective-oriented, top-down approaches to develop individual test cases to assess whether the system satisfies functional and safety properties with respect to specific operational contexts. However, these techniques lack search pressure to identify test cases that may be obscured in unintuitive regions of the search space (i.e., edge cases). This paper introduces a bottom-up, exploratory approach to automatic test case generation for AVs, where test cases are evolved organically (i.e., in a more open-ended fashion) to reveal uncertainty posed by diverse and unexpected maneuvers from an external vehicle in the operating environment. Specifically, novelty search-based genetic programming is used to evolve controllers for an external vehicle that interacts with the AV under study in order to reveal the most diverse behavioral responses from the AV under study. By leveraging diversity as a metric through novelty search, our approach automatically discovers behaviors for an external vehicle that result in increasingly different interactions with the AV under study. Our approach overcomes challenges typically associated with traditional search-based AV testing, such as developer bias and high development costs of manually tuning search objectives. We demonstrate the efficacy of our proof-of-concept framework in several traffic scenarios, discovering diverse test cases that enable us to reveal undesirable behaviors in the AV under study, including many edge cases that might otherwise not be detected.

Tue 14 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

14:00 - 15:30
Autonomous, Robotic & Cyber-Physical SystemsResearch Track / Artifact Track / Journal First Track / SEAMS Program at Oceania II
Chair(s): Matteo Camilli Politecnico di Milano
14:00
15m
Talk
Using Context-Role-Oriented Programming for Swarms to Alleviate the Micro-Macro ProblemFull PaperVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Sebastian Götz Technische Universität Dresden, Christian Gutsche Boysen-TU Dresden-Graduiertenkolleg; Technische Universität Dresden, Adrian Scholze Technische Universität Dresden, Uwe Aßmann TU Dresden, Germany
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14:15
15m
Talk
Maneuver Sequence Coverage of Scenarios for Autonomous Driving SystemFull Paper
Research Track
Yulin Jin University of Edinburgh, Ajitha Rajan The University of Edinburgh
14:30
10m
Talk
Formally Guaranteed Control Adaptation for ODD-Resilient Autonomous SystemsShort Paper
Research Track
Gricel Vázquez University of York, UK, Calum Imrie University of York, Sepeedeh Shahbeigi University of York, UK, Nawshin Mannan Proma University of York, Tian Gan University of York, UK, Victoria J. Hodge University of York, John Molloy University of York, Simos Gerasimou Cyprus University of Technology
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14:40
15m
Talk
EvoDriver: Novelty-Search Driven Evolution of Behavioral Test Suites for Autonomous VehiclesFull Paper
Research Track
Sol Zilberman Michigan State University, Kenneth Chan Michigan State University, Betty H.C. Cheng Michigan State University
14:55
10m
Talk
Towards Assured Mission Adaptation of Multi-Robot SystemsShort Paper
Research Track
Vicente Romeiro Ruhr University Bochum, Ricardo Caldas Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Gianluca Filippone Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum, Genaína Nunes Rodrigues University of Brasília
15:05
15m
Talk
Automated Planning for Task-Based Cyber-Physical Systems under Multiple Sources of UncertaintyVirtual AttendanceJournal-First
Journal First Track
Raquel Sánchez Salas University of Malaga, Javier Troya ITIS Software, University of Malaga, Javier Camara University of Málaga
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15:20
10m
Talk
Ubi-AAL: A Self-Adaptive Ubiquitous Computing System Problem Exemplar in Ambient Assisted LivingArtifact
Artifact Track
Javier Camara University of Málaga, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Livia Lestingi DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Michele Loreti University of Camerino, Hiroyuki Nakagawa Okayama University, Marjan Sirjani Malardalen University, Kenji Tei Institute of Science Tokyo