arXiv:2510.13114eess.SYcs.RO2025-10

为遮挡环境中的自动驾驶设计概率安全约束,有效应对不可见风险。

Safe Driving in Occluded Environments

  • 用概率不变性替代传统可观测要求,建模不可见风险。
  • 生成线性动作约束,将潜在风险概率控制在可接受范围。
  • 适用于实时控制,兼顾安全与透明度,适合自动驾驶系统集成。

在存在遮挡的环境下保障自动驾驶安全,是策略设计中的重大挑战。现有基于集合不变性的模型驱动控制方法虽能处理可见风险,但遮挡会引入不可观测的安全临界状态,即潜在风险。数据驱动方法也难以应对这类风险,因缺乏可见风险物体就无法学习从传感器输入到安全动作的映射。为此,本文提出一种针对潜在风险的概率安全证书。其关键技术是应用概率不变性,放宽了集合不变性方法对风险状态必须可观测的严格要求。所提方法生成线性动作约束,将潜在风险概率控制在容许范围内。这些约束可嵌入模型预测控制器或数据驱动策略中,以缓解潜在风险。在CARLA仿真器上进行了测试,并与若干现有方法对比。理论与实证分析共同表明,该方法能在不过度保守的前提下,实现遮挡环境中实时控制的长期安全,并保持对暴露风险的透明性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Ensuring safe autonomous driving in the presence of occlusions poses a significant challenge in its policy design. While existing model-driven control techniques based on set invariance can handle visible risks, occlusions create latent risks in which safety-critical states are not observable. Data-driven techniques also struggle to handle latent risks because direct mappings from risk-critical objects in sensor inputs to safe actions cannot be learned without visible risk-critical objects. Motivated by these challenges, in this paper, we propose a probabilistic safety certificate for latent risk. Our key technical enabler is the application of probabilistic invariance: It relaxes the strict observability requirements imposed by set-invariance methods that demand the knowledge of risk-critical states. The proposed techniques provide linear action constraints that confine the latent risk probability within tolerance. Such constraints can be integrated into model predictive controllers or embedded in data-driven policies to mitigate latent risks. The proposed method is tested using the CARLA simulator and compared with a few existing techniques. The theoretical and empirical analysis jointly demonstrate that the proposed methods assure long-term safety in real-time control in occluded environments without being overly conservative and with transparency to exposed risks.

自动驾驶安全控制概率推理遮挡感知

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