7 papers
Formally Guaranteed Control Adaptation for ODD-Resilient Autonomous Systems
Gricel Vázquez, Calum Imrie, Sepeedeh Shahbeigi +5
Ensuring reliable performance in situations outside the Operational Design Domain (ODD) remains a primary challenge in devising resilient autonomous systems. We explore this challe…
Safe But Not Sorry: Reducing Over-Conservatism in Safety Critics via Uncertainty-Aware Modulation
Daniel Bethell, Simos Gerasimou, Radu Calinescu +1
Ensuring the safe exploration of reinforcement learning (RL) agents is critical for deployment in real-world systems. Yet existing approaches struggle to strike the right balance:…
Learning to Navigate Under Imperfect Perception: Conformalised Segmentation for Safe Reinforcement Learning
Daniel Bethell, Simos Gerasimou, Radu Calinescu +1
Reliable navigation in safety-critical environments requires both accurate hazard perception and principled uncertainty handling to strengthen downstream safety handling. Despite t…
Safe Reinforcement Learning in Black-Box Environments via Adaptive Shielding
Daniel Bethell, Simos Gerasimou, Radu Calinescu +1
Empowering safe exploration of reinforcement learning (RL) agents during training is a critical challenge towards their deployment in many real-world scenarios. When prior knowledg…
Conformal Safety Shielding for Imperfect-Perception Agents
William Scarbro, Calum Imrie, Sinem Getir Yaman +4
We consider the problem of safe control in discrete autonomous agents that use learned components for imperfect perception (or more generally, state estimation) from high-dimension…
Assuring the Safety of Reinforcement Learning Components: AMLAS-RL
Calum Corrie Imrie, Ioannis Stefanakos, Sepeedeh Shahbeigi +2
The rapid advancement of machine learning (ML) has led to its increasing integration into cyber-physical systems (CPS) across diverse domains. While CPS offer powerful capabilities…