Abstract
Recent accidents involving autonomous vehicles prompt us to consider how we can engineer an autonomous vehicle which always obeys traffic rules. This is particularly challenging because traffic rules are rarely specified at the level of detail an engineer would expect. Hence, it is nearly impossible to formally monitor behaviours of autonomous vehicles—which are expressed in terms of position, velocity, and acceleration—with respect to the traffic rules—which are expressed by vague concepts such as “maintaining safe distance”. We show how we can use the Isabelle theorem prover to do this by first codifying the traffic rules abstractly and then subsequently concretising each atomic proposition in a verified manner. Thanks to Isabelle’s code generation, we can generate code which we can use to monitor the compliance of traffic rules formally.
A. Rizaldi—This work is partially supported by the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1480 (PUMA), DFG NI 491/16-1, European Commission project UnCoVerCPS 643921.
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Notes
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Our Isabelle formalisation is in https://github.com/rizaldialbert/overtaking.
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We also have similar theorems for decrease-lane but they are omitted for brevity.
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This can be checked in our Isabelle formalisation.
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The semantics for LTL is pretty standard and, hence, we omit them for brevity.
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Rizaldi, A. et al. (2017). Formalising and Monitoring Traffic Rules for Autonomous Vehicles in Isabelle/HOL. In: Polikarpova, N., Schneider, S. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10510. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66845-1_4
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