Summary: This short post talks about Mobileye’s new paper (regarding a formal approach to Autonomous Vehicles safety). It claims that the paper has several issues, but is nevertheless an important start. Mobileye came out with a paper titled “On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-driving Cars” (Bloomberg coverage, summary paper, full pdf). Their … More On Mobileye’s formal model of AV safety
Summary: Here is a list of papers I read lately about verifying Autonomous Vehicles. For each, I say why I think it is interesting. These papers all start with something like “AVs are upon us, so they’d better be safe and well-verified”, and then go on to explain their (very diverse) ideas about how to … More Some papers about AV verification
Summary: This post describes some new attempts at formal verification of complex systems (mainly AVs and ML-based systems) In general, I think Formal Verification (FV) will only have a limited role in verifying Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) and ML-based systems, because those systems are so complex and heterogenous. In FV has better PR than CDV … More Formal verification of really-complex systems
I attended HVC again this year (see also my HVC’2015 trip report). Here is a very subjective description of what I saw and heard – much of it outside the conference room itself. Note that while HVC is about “all things verification”, much of the audience comes from the chip verification world. Also, the conference … More HVC’2016 trip report
Whatever you think of my Stuttgart symposium trip report, at least I made the effort to attend it and report back. In this post I sink even lower, reporting from a conference I did not attend – the ICRA workshop on verification of autonomous systems. I did, however, watch the full 4.5 hour video (warning: … More The ICRA 2016 verification workshop
Summary: This trip report describes my impressions from the Second Autonomous Vehicles Test & Design Symposium in Stuttgart. Short version: The design side is moving fast. The verification side has improved, but has a long way to go. Note: In my last post I talked about what automation will do to this planet over the … More Finding bugs in autonomous vehicles: My impressions from the second Stuttgart symposium
The topic of Formal Verification (FV) and how it relates to Coverage Driven Verification (CDV) came up in some previous posts and in a comment thread. So allow me to briefly discuss it – I promise to get back to the main course soon. Some definitions Before I continue, let me define what I mean by … More FV has much better PR than CDV