no code implementations • 9 Jun 2023 • Ran Tao, Hunmin Kim, Hyung-Jin Yoon, Wenbin Wan, Naira Hovakimyan, Lui Sha, Petros Voulgaris
To include this new safety concept in control problems, we formulate a feasibility maximization problem aiming to maximize the feasibility of the primary and alternative missions.
no code implementations • 26 May 2023 • Hongpeng Cao, Yanbing Mao, Lui Sha, Marco Caccamo
In this paper, we propose the Phy-DRL: a physics-model-regulated deep reinforcement learning framework for safety-critical autonomous systems.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2023 • Hongpeng Cao, Yanbing Mao, Lui Sha, Marco Caccamo
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-making tasks of autonomous systems with high-dimensional state and/or action spaces.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2022 • Yanbing Mao, Lui Sha, Huajie Shao, Yuliang Gu, Qixin Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher
To do so, the PhN augments neural network layers with two key components: (i) monomials of Taylor series expansion of nonlinear functions capturing physical knowledge, and (ii) a suppressor for mitigating the influence of noise.
no code implementations • 4 Sep 2022 • Ayoosh Bansal, Simon Yu, Hunmin Kim, Bo Li, Naira Hovakimyan, Marco Caccamo, Lui Sha
The synergistic safety layer uses only verifiable and logically analyzable software to fulfill its tasks.
1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2022 • Ayoosh Bansal, Hunmin Kim, Simon Yu, Bo Li, Naira Hovakimyan, Marco Caccamo, Lui Sha
Perception of obstacles remains a critical safety concern for autonomous vehicles.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2021 • Jiyang Chen, Simon Yu, Rohan Tabish, Ayoosh Bansal, Shengzhong Liu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lui Sha
Object detection in state-of-the-art Autonomous Vehicles (AV) framework relies heavily on deep neural networks.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2021 • Ayoosh Bansal, Jayati Singh, Micaela Verucchi, Marco Caccamo, Lui Sha
Commonly used metrics for evaluation of object detection systems (precision, recall, mAP) do not give complete information about their suitability of use in safety critical tasks, like obstacle detection for collision avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles (AV).
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2021 • Hunmin Kim, HyungJin Yoon, Wenbin Wan, Naira Hovakimyan, Lui Sha, Petros Voulgaris
To incorporate this new safety concept in control problems, we formulate a feasibility maximization problem that adopts additional (virtual) input horizons toward the alternative missions on top of the input horizon toward the primary mission.
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2020 • Yanbing Mao, Yuliang Gu, Naira Hovakimyan, Lui Sha, Petros Voulgaris
Due to the high dependence of vehicle dynamics on the driving environments, the proposed Simplex leverages the finite-time model learning to timely learn and update the vehicle model for $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ adaptive controller, when any deviation from the safety envelope or the uncertainty measurement threshold occurs in the unforeseen driving environments.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2019 • Chunhui Guo, Zhicheng Fu, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Shangping Ren, Lui Sha
The framework allows computer scientists to work together with medical professionals to transform medical best practice guidelines into executable statechart models, Yakindu in particular, so that medical functionalities and properties can be quickly prototyped and validated.