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Summary In this paper, we develop an adaptive control algorithm for addressing security for a class of networked vehicles that comprise a formation ofhuman‐driven vehicles sharing kinematic data and an autonomous vehicle in the aft of the vehicle formation receiving data from the preceding vehicles through wireless vehicle‐to‐vehicle communication devices. Specifically, we develop an adaptive controller for mitigating time‐invariant state‐dependent adversarial sensor and actuator attacks while guaranteeing uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed‐loop networked system. Furthermore, an adaptive learning framework is presented for identifying the state space model parameters based on input‐output data. This learning technique utilizes previously stored data as well as current data to identify the system parameters using a relaxed persistence of excitation condition. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated by an illustrative numerical example involving a platoon of connected vehicles.
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Towards Safe Autonomy in Hybrid Traffic: Detecting Unpredictable Abnormal Behaviors of Human Drivers via Information Sharing
Hybrid traffic which involves both autonomous and human-driven vehicles would be the norm of the autonomous vehicles’ practice for a while. On the one hand, unlike autonomous vehicles, human-driven vehicles could exhibit sudden abnormal behaviors such as unpredictably switching to dangerous driving modes – putting its neighboring vehicles under risks; such undesired mode switching could arise from numbers of human driver factors, including fatigue, drunkenness, distraction, aggressiveness, etc. On the other hand, modern vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technologies enable the autonomous vehicles to efficiently and reliably share the scarce run-time information with each other [1]. In this paper, we propose, to the best of our knowledge, the first efficient algorithm that can (1) significantly improve trajectory prediction by effectively fusing the run-time information shared by surrounding autonomous vehicles, and can (2) accurately and quickly detect abnormal human driving mode switches or abnormal driving behavior with formal assurance without hurting human drivers’ privacy. To validate our proposed algorithm, we first evaluate our proposed trajectory predictor on NGSIM and Argoverse datasets and show that our proposed predictor outperforms the baseline methods. Then through extensive experiments on SUMO simulator, we show that our proposed algorithm has great detection performance in both highway and urban traffic. The best performance achieves detection rate of\(97.3\% \), average detection delay of 1.2s, and 0 false alarm.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2047354
- PAR ID:
- 10495087
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
- ISSN:
- 2378-962X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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