让AI控制器根据环境自动选最优方案,提升自动驾驶安全性与性能。
Learning Contextual Runtime Monitors for Safe AI-Based Autonomy
- 用上下文感知监控器动态选择最适合当前环境的控制器
- 在模拟驾驶中安全性和性能显著优于传统方法
- 适合需要高可靠性的自主系统,如自动驾驶
我们提出一种新型框架,用于学习面向基于AI控制集成的上下文感知运行时监控器。机器学习(ML)控制器因其解决复杂决策任务的能力,正越来越多地部署于(自主)网络物理系统中。然而,在陌生环境中其准确性可能急剧下降,带来重大安全隐患。传统集成方法通过平均或投票多个控制器来提升鲁棒性,但常会削弱各控制器在不同操作情境下的专长优势。我们主张,与其混合控制器输出,不如通过监控框架识别并利用这些情境优势。本文将安全的AI控制集成设计重构为一个上下文监控问题:监控器持续观测系统上下文,并选择最适配当前条件的控制器。为此,我们将监控器学习建模为上下文学习任务,借鉴上下文多臂赌博机技术。该方法具备两大优势:(1)控制器选择过程具有理论保障的安全性;(2)更充分地利用控制器多样性。我们在两个模拟自动驾驶场景中验证了该框架,结果表明其在安全性和性能上均显著优于非上下文基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We introduce a novel framework for learning context-aware runtime monitors for AI-based control ensembles. Machine-learning (ML) controllers are increasingly deployed in (autonomous) cyber-physical systems because of their ability to solve complex decision-making tasks. However, their accuracy can degrade sharply in unfamiliar environments, creating significant safety concerns. Traditional ensemble methods aim to improve robustness by averaging or voting across multiple controllers, yet this often dilutes the specialized strengths that individual controllers exhibit in different operating contexts. We argue that, rather than blending controller outputs, a monitoring framework should identify and exploit these contextual strengths. In this paper, we reformulate the design of safe AI-based control ensembles as a contextual monitoring problem. A monitor continuously observes the system's context and selects the controller best suited to the current conditions. To achieve this, we cast monitor learning as a contextual learning task and draw on techniques from contextual multi-armed bandits. Our approach comes with two key benefits: (1) theoretical safety guarantees during controller selection, and (2) improved utilization of controller diversity. We validate our framework in two simulated autonomous driving scenarios, demonstrating significant improvements in both safety and performance compared to non-contextual baselines.
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