Title
A collision avoidance scheme for autonomous vehicles inspired by human social norms.
Abstract
This paper introduces the novel idea of using human social norms and human emotions to improve the collision avoidance of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Until now, the literature has been concerned with theoretical debates regarding ethical issues connected to AVs, while no practical steps have yet been undertaken. This paper introduces the concept of an artificial society of AVs with different personalities and with social norms coded into their autopilot so that they act like well-behaved drivers. For proof of concept, the standard agent modelling tool Netlogo is utilized to simulate the artificial society of AVs. Furthermore, comparisons are made with random walk-based non-social-based collision avoidance techniques. Extensive testing has been carried out using the behaviour space tool to determine the performance of the proposed approach regarding the number of collisions. A comparative study undertaken with a random walk method indicates that the proposed approach provides a better option for tailoring the autopilots of future AVs, while also promising to be more socially acceptable and trustworthy regarding safe road travel.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.compeleceng.2018.02.011
Computers & Electrical Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Autonomous vehicles,Social norms,Ortony,Clore and Collins (OCC) model,Prospect-based emotions,Fuzzy logic,NetLogo
Ethical issues,Computer science,Random walk,Computer network,Norm (social),NetLogo,Collision,Human–computer interaction,Proof of concept,Artificial society,Autopilot
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
69
0045-7906
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Faisal Riaz1236.03
Sohail Jabbar231434.55
Muhammad Sajid371.91
Mudassar Ahmad4257.32
Kashif Naseer530.76
Nouman Ali630.42