Argus: Resilience-Oriented Safety Assurance Framework for End-to-End ADSs

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Main Authors: Wang, Dingji, Lu, You, Chen, Bihuan, Hao, Shuo, Jiang, Haowen, Tian, Yifan, Peng, Xin
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author Wang, Dingji
Lu, You
Chen, Bihuan
Hao, Shuo
Jiang, Haowen
Tian, Yifan
Peng, Xin
author_facet Wang, Dingji
Lu, You
Chen, Bihuan
Hao, Shuo
Jiang, Haowen
Tian, Yifan
Peng, Xin
contents End-to-end autonomous driving systems (ADSs), with their strong capabilities in environmental perception and generalizable driving decisions, are attracting growing attention from both academia and industry. However, once deployed on public roads, ADSs are inevitably exposed to diverse driving hazards that may compromise safety and degrade system performance. This raises a strong demand for resilience of ADSs, particularly the capability to continuously monitor driving hazards and adaptively respond to potential safety violations, which is crucial for maintaining robust driving behaviors in complex driving scenarios. To bridge this gap, we propose a runtime resilience-oriented framework, Argus, to mitigate the driving hazards, thus preventing potential safety violations and improving the driving performance of an ADS. Argus continuously monitors the trajectories generated by the ADS for potential hazards and, whenever the EGO vehicle is deemed unsafe, seamlessly takes control through a hazard mitigator. We integrate Argus with three state-of-the-art end-to-end ADSs, i.e., TCP, UniAD and VAD. Our evaluation has demonstrated that Argus effectively and efficiently enhances the resilience of ADSs, improving the driving score of the ADS by up to 150.30% on average, and preventing up to 64.38% of the violations, with little additional time overhead.
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spellingShingle Argus: Resilience-Oriented Safety Assurance Framework for End-to-End ADSs
Wang, Dingji
Lu, You
Chen, Bihuan
Hao, Shuo
Jiang, Haowen
Tian, Yifan
Peng, Xin
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software Engineering
End-to-end autonomous driving systems (ADSs), with their strong capabilities in environmental perception and generalizable driving decisions, are attracting growing attention from both academia and industry. However, once deployed on public roads, ADSs are inevitably exposed to diverse driving hazards that may compromise safety and degrade system performance. This raises a strong demand for resilience of ADSs, particularly the capability to continuously monitor driving hazards and adaptively respond to potential safety violations, which is crucial for maintaining robust driving behaviors in complex driving scenarios. To bridge this gap, we propose a runtime resilience-oriented framework, Argus, to mitigate the driving hazards, thus preventing potential safety violations and improving the driving performance of an ADS. Argus continuously monitors the trajectories generated by the ADS for potential hazards and, whenever the EGO vehicle is deemed unsafe, seamlessly takes control through a hazard mitigator. We integrate Argus with three state-of-the-art end-to-end ADSs, i.e., TCP, UniAD and VAD. Our evaluation has demonstrated that Argus effectively and efficiently enhances the resilience of ADSs, improving the driving score of the ADS by up to 150.30% on average, and preventing up to 64.38% of the violations, with little additional time overhead.
title Argus: Resilience-Oriented Safety Assurance Framework for End-to-End ADSs
topic Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09032