One Stack, Diverse Vehicles: Checking Safe Portability of Automated Driving Software

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nenchev, Vladislav
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866913672576630784
author Nenchev, Vladislav
author_facet Nenchev, Vladislav
contents Integrating an automated driving software stack into vehicles with variable configuration is challenging, especially due to different hardware characteristics. Further, to provide software updates to a vehicle fleet in the field, the functional safety of every affected configuration has to be ensured. These additional demands for dependability and the increasing hardware diversity in automated driving make rigorous automatic analysis essential. This paper addresses this challenge by using formal portability checking of adaptive cruise controller code for different vehicle configurations. Given a formal specification of the safe behavior, models of target configurations are derived, which capture relevant effects of sensors, actuators and computing platforms. A corresponding safe set is obtained and used to check if the desired behavior is achievable on all targets. In a case study, portability checking of a traditional and a neural network controller are performed automatically within minutes for each vehicle hardware configuration. The check provides feedback for necessary adaptations of the controllers, thus, allowing rapid integration and testing of software or parameter changes.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2501_18769
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle One Stack, Diverse Vehicles: Checking Safe Portability of Automated Driving Software
Nenchev, Vladislav
Systems and Control
Robotics
Integrating an automated driving software stack into vehicles with variable configuration is challenging, especially due to different hardware characteristics. Further, to provide software updates to a vehicle fleet in the field, the functional safety of every affected configuration has to be ensured. These additional demands for dependability and the increasing hardware diversity in automated driving make rigorous automatic analysis essential. This paper addresses this challenge by using formal portability checking of adaptive cruise controller code for different vehicle configurations. Given a formal specification of the safe behavior, models of target configurations are derived, which capture relevant effects of sensors, actuators and computing platforms. A corresponding safe set is obtained and used to check if the desired behavior is achievable on all targets. In a case study, portability checking of a traditional and a neural network controller are performed automatically within minutes for each vehicle hardware configuration. The check provides feedback for necessary adaptations of the controllers, thus, allowing rapid integration and testing of software or parameter changes.
title One Stack, Diverse Vehicles: Checking Safe Portability of Automated Driving Software
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18769