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Nianhao You
dblp:386/4683
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
0009-0001-5850-7424ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Autonomous driving · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software testing › system testing › cyber-physical system testing
autonomous driving system testing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | VioHawk: Detecting Traffic Violations of Autonomous Driving Systems through Criticality-Guided Simulation Testing · ISSTA 2024 |
Software testing
simulation-based testing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | VioHawk: Detecting Traffic Violations of Autonomous Driving Systems through Criticality-Guided Simulation Testing · ISSTA 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
mutation operations · 1.5fuzzing · 1.5criticality-guided simulation · 1.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | VioHawk: Detecting Traffic Violations of Autonomous Driving Systems through Criticality-Guided Simulation TestingabstractAs highlighted in authoritative standards (e.g., ISO21448), traffic law compliance is a fundamental prerequisite for the commercialization of autonomous driving systems (ADS). Hence, manufacturers are in severe need of techniques to detect harsh driving situations in which the target ADS would violate traffic laws. To achieve this goal, existing works commonly resort to searching-based simulation testing, which continuously adjusts the scenario configurations (e.g., add new vehicles) of initial simulation scenarios and hunts for critical scenarios. Specifically, they apply pre-defined heuristics on each mutated scenario to approximate the likelihood of triggering ADS traffic violations, and accordingly perform searching scheduling. However, with those comparably more critical scenarios in hand, they fail to offer deterministic guidance on which and how scenario configurations should be further mutated to reliably trigger the target ADS misbehaviors. Hence, they inevitably suffer from meaningless efforts to traverse the huge scenario search space. In this work, we propose VioHawk, a novel simulation-based fuzzer that hunts for scenarios that imply ADS traffic violations. Our key idea is that, traffic law regulations can be formally modeled as hazardous/non-hazardous driving areas on the map at each timestamp during ADS simulation testing (e.g., when the traffic light is red, the intersection is marked as hazardous areas). Following this idea, VioHawk works by inducing the autonomous vehicle to drive into the law-specified hazardous areas with deterministic mutation operations. We evaluated the effectiveness of VioHawk in testing industry-grade ADS (i.e., Apollo). We constructed a benchmark dataset that contains 42 ADS violation scenarios against real-world traffic laws. Compared to existing tools, VioHawk can reproduce 3.1X~13.3X more violations within the same time budget, and save 1.6X~8.9X the reproduction time for those identified violations. Finally, with the help of VioHawk, we identified 9+8 previously unknown violations of real-world traffic laws on Apollo 7.0/8.0. Zhongrui Li, Jiarun Dai, Zongan Huang, Nianhao You, Yuan Zhang 0009, Min Yang 0002 |
ISSTA | 4 |