Title
Automatically learning formal models: an industrial case from autonomous driving development
Abstract
The correctness of autonomous driving software is of utmost importance as incorrect behaviour may have catastrophic consequences. Though formal model-based engineering techniques can help guarantee correctness, challenges exist in widespread industrial adoption. One among them is the model construction problem. Manual construction of formal models is expensive, error-prone, and intractable for large systems. Automating model construction would be a great enabler for the use of formal methods to guarantee software correctness and thereby for safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. Such automated techniques can be beneficial in software design, re-engineering, and reverse engineering. In this industrial case study, we apply active learning techniques to obtain formal models from an existing autonomous driving software (in development) implemented in MATLAB. We demonstrate the feasibility of active automata learning algorithms for automotive industrial use. Furthermore, we discuss the practical challenges in applying automata learning and possible directions for integrating automata learning into automotive software development workflow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3417990.3421262
MODELS '20: ACM/IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Virtual Event Canada October, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-8135-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuvaraj Selvaraj100.68
Ashfaq Farooqui200.34
Ghazaleh Panahandeh300.34
Martin Fabian420427.91