Research Areas

Autonomous Vehicles

Associated Publications

2023

Learning Autonomous Vehicle Safety Concepts from Demonstrations
Karen Leung, Sushant Veer, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone
American Control Conference (ACC) 2023
Planning with Occluded Traffic Agents using Bi-Level Variational Occlusion Models
Filippos Christianos, Peter Karkus, Boris Ivanovic, Stefano V. Albrecht, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
BITS: Bi-level Imitation for Traffic Simulation
Danfei Xu, Yuxiao Chen, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
Tree-structured Policy Planning with Learned Behavior Models
Yuxiao Chen, Peter Karkus, Boris Ivanovic, Xinshuo Weng, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
Guided Conditional Diffusion for Controllable Traffic Simulation
Ziyuan Zhong, Davis Rempe, Danfei Xu, Yuxiao Chen, Sushant Veer, Gerry Che, Baishakhi Ray, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
Receding Horizon Planning with Rule Hierarchies for Autonomous Vehicles
Sushant Veer, Karen Leung, Ryan Cosner, Yuxiao Chen, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023
Expanding the Deployment Envelope of Behavior Prediction via Adaptive Meta-Learning
Boris Ivanovic, James Harrison, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023

2022

Task-Relevant Failure Detection for Trajectory Predictors in Autonomous Vehicles
Alec Farid, Sushant Veer, Boris Ivanovic, Karen Leung, Marco Pavone
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022
DiffStack: A Differentiable and Modular Control Stack for Autonomous Vehicles
Peter Karkus, Boris Ivanovic, Shie Mannor, Marco Pavone
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022
Robust Trajectory Prediction against Adversarial Attacks
Yulong Cao, Danfei Xu, Xinshuo Weng, Z. Morely Mao, Anima Anandkumar, Chaowei Xiao, Marco Pavone
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022
Selected for Oral Presentation
Heterogeneous-Agent Trajectory Forecasting Incorporating Class Uncertainty
Boris Ivanovic, Kuan-Hui Lee, Pavel Tokmakov, Blake Wulfe, Adrien Gaidon, Marco Pavone
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
AdvDO: Realistic Adversarial Attacks for Trajectory Prediction
Yulong Cao, Chaowei Xiao, Anima Anandkumar, Danfei Xu, Marco Pavone
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022
Zhuyi: Perception Processing Rate Estimation for Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
Yu-Shun Hsiao, Siva Hari, Michał Filipiuk, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vasu Singh, Steve Keckler
Design Automation Conference (DAC)
Exploiting Temporal Data Diversity for Detecting Safety-critical Faults in AV Compute Systems
Saurabh Jha, Shengkun Cui, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
ScePT: Scene-consistent, Policy-based Trajectory Predictions for Planning
Yuxiao Chen, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022
Whose Track Is It Anyway? Improving Robustness to Tracking Errors with Affinity-Based Prediction
Xinshuo Weng, Boris Ivanovic, Kris Kitani, Marco Pavone
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022
MTP: Multi-Hypothesis Tracking and Prediction for Reduced Error Propagation
Xinshuo Weng, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2022
Interaction-Dynamics-Aware Perception Zones for Obstacle Detection Safety Evaluation
Sever Topan, Karen Leung, Yuxiao Chen, Pritish Tupekar, Edward Schmerling, Jonas Nilsson, Michael Cox, Marco Pavone
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2022
Injecting Planning-Awareness into Prediction and Detection Evaluation
Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2022
Propagating State Uncertainty Through Trajectory Forecasting
Boris Ivanovic, Yifeng Lin, Shubham Shrivastava, Punarjay Chakravarty, Marco Pavone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
Zhuyi: Perception Processing Rate Estimation for Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
Yu-Shun Hsiao, Siva Hari, Michał Filipiuk, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vasu Singh, Steve Keckler
arXiv

2021

Suraksha: A Framework to Analyze the Safety Implications of Perception Design Choices in AVs
Hengyu Zhao, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Steve Keckler, Jishen Zhao
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Generating and Characterizing Scenarios for Safety Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
Zahra Ghodsi, Siva Hari, Iuri Frosio, Timothy Tsai, Alejandro Troccoli, Steve Keckler, Siddharth Garg, Anima Anandkumar
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
Suraksha: A Quantitative AV Safety Evaluation Framework to Analyze Safety Implications of Perception Design Choices
Hengyu Zhao, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Steve Keckler, Jishen Zhao
Workshop on Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles (SSIV)
Binary TTC: A Temporal Geofence for Autonomous Navigation
Abhishek Badki, Orazio Gallo, Jan Kautz, Pradeep Sen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, CVPR 2021
Simulation Driven Design and Test for Safety of AI Based Autonomous Vehicles
Vasu Singh, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Mandar Pitale
Workshop on Safe Artificial Intelligence for Automated Driving (SAIAD)
Generating and Characterizing Scenarios for Safety Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
Zahra Ghodsi, Siva Hari, Iuri Frosio, Timothy Tsai, Alejandro Troccoli, Steve Keckler, Siddharth Garg, Anima Anandkumar
arXiv

2020

Generating and Characterizing Scenarios for Safety Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
Zahra Ghodsi, Siva Hari, Iuri Frosio, Timothy Tsai, Alejandro Troccoli, Steve Keckler, Siddharth Garg, Anima Anandkumar
IEEE International Workshop on Automotive Reliability & Test (ART)
AV-FUZZER: Finding Safety Violations in Autonomous Driving Systems
Guangpeng Li, Yiran Li, Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Hari, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Best Paper award
ML-driven Malware that Targets AV Safety
Saurabh Jha, Shengkun Cui, Subho S. Banerjee, James Cyriac, Timothy Tsai, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
ML-driven Malware that Targets AV Safety
Saurabh Jha, Shengkun Cui, Subho S. Banerjee, James Cyriac, Timothy Tsai, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer
arXiv

2019

ML-based Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles: A Case for Bayesian Fault Injection
Saurabh Jha, Subho S. Banerjee, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
arXiv
Kayotee: A Fault Injection-based System to Assess the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles to Faults and Errors
Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
arXiv
ML-based Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles: A Case for Bayesian Fault Injection
Saurabh Jha, Subho Banerjee, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)

2018

Kayotee: A Fault Injection-based System to Assess the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles to Faults and Errors
Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
Third IEEE International Workshop on Automotive Reliability & Test

2016

Towards Selecting Robust Hand Gestures for Automotive Interfaces
Shalini Gupta, Pavlo Molchanov, Xiaodong Yang, Stephen Tyree, Jan Kautz
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2016

Researchers

Apoorva Sharma
Boris Ivanovic
Danfei Xu
Gal Dalal
Gerry Che
Heng Yang
Karen Leung
Marco Pavone
Muya Chang
Peter Karkus
Siva Hari
Sushant Veer
Vinu Joseph
Xinshuo Weng
Yue Wang
Yulong Cao
Yuxiao Chen
Zhiding Yu