Summary of Predicting Safety Misbehaviours in Autonomous Driving Systems Using Uncertainty Quantification, by Ruben Grewal et al.
Predicting Safety Misbehaviours in Autonomous Driving Systems using Uncertainty Quantification
by Ruben Grewal, Paolo Tonella, Andrea Stocco
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Robotics (cs.RO); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper evaluates Bayesian uncertainty quantification methods from the deep learning domain for anticipatory testing of safety-critical misbehaviours during system-level simulation-based testing. It computes uncertainty scores as the vehicle executes, using high uncertainty scores to distinguish safe from failure-inducing driving behaviors. The study compares two Bayesian uncertainty quantification methods, MC-Dropout and Deep Ensembles, for misbehaviour avoidance. Both methods successfully detected a high number of out-of-bounds episodes providing early warnings several seconds in advance, outperforming state-of-the-art misbehaviour prediction methods based on autoencoders and attention maps in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Deep Ensembles detected most misbehaviours without any false alarms, making them computationally feasible for real-time detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how to make self-driving cars safer by predicting when they might do something bad. It uses special math called Bayesian uncertainty quantification to figure out if the car is going to do something wrong. The study compares two ways of doing this, MC-Dropout and Deep Ensembles, to see which one works best. Both methods were good at detecting when the car was going to do something wrong, but one method, Deep Ensembles, worked especially well and didn’t make any false alarms. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Deep learning » Dropout
