arXiv AI By Anjali Parashar, Chuchu Fan

Scenario Generation for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Using Real-World Failure Records

Read the original on arXiv AI →

arXiv:2606. 31131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To ensure safe on-road behavior, pre-deployment testing and failure discovery of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial.

Machine-generated by The Flow from the publisher's headline and feed description — not written or checked by a human. The full article lives at arXiv AI.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

PlannerForge: LLM Agents for Scenario-Based Testing of Motion Planners in Autonomous Driving

PlannerForge is a unified LLM‑agent framework that covers the entire scenario‑based testing pipeline for autonomous driving systems, from scenario generation to ADS assessment, and adds ADS enhancement and benchmarking stages. It was evaluated with ten off‑the‑shelf LLMs across all tasks and five prompt conditions, achieving best‑per‑task scores between 0.88 and 1.00 and matching commercial APIs with open‑source models such as Qwen3.6:35B. The end‑to‑end chaining retains 83% of seed queries for commercial backends and 78% for open‑source, outperforming existing tools like Scenario Factory 2.0 and BM25 in natural‑language generation, attribute realization, and physically valid edits. whyItMatters":"PlannerForge demonstrates that a single LLM‑based system can streamline and improve the fragmented scenario‑based testing workflow for autonomous driving, achieving high performance without domain‑specific fine‑tuning."

By Yuan Gao, Sebastian M\"uller, Mattia Piccinini, Marc Kaufeld, Yuchen Zhang, Finn Rasmus Sch\"afer, Qunying Song, Johannes Betz
arXiv AI
Jun 11

AutoMine Solution for AV2 2026 Scenario Mining Challenge

arXiv:2606. 11874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the development of autonomous driving systems, mining high-value, safety-critical, and planning-relevant scenarios from large-scale driving logs has become essential for data-driven evaluation.

By Songliang Cao, Jiele Zhao, Yuru Wang, Hao Li, Daqi Liu, Zehan Zhang, Fangzhen Li, Yu Wang, Yue Zhang, Bing Wang, Guang Chen, Hao Lu, Hangjun Ye
arXiv AI
Sep 18

AURORA: A Natural Language-Driven Agentic Framework for Understanding, Reasoning, and Orchestrating Reliable Air-Ground Co-Simulation

AURORA is a natural‑language‑driven framework that treats air‑ground scenario generation as a compilation process with verification. It introduces the Air‑Ground Scenario Graph (AGSG), a typed intermediate representation linking agents, missions, events, communication, and success conditions, enabling joint grounding, temporal planning, pre‑execution checks, runtime verification, failure localization, and bounded repair. The authors also present AURORA‑Bench to evaluate not only execution but faithful realization of requested interactions, showing that structured execution and runtime verification improve reliability and that explicit intermediate representations facilitate verifiable and repairable co‑simulation.

By Keshu Wu, Hao Zhang, Rui Gan, Xiangbo Gao, Xiaopeng Li, Zhengzhong Tu, Yang Zhou
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Teach-to-Crash: A Closed-Loop Student-Teacher LLM Framework for Collision-Inducing Test Scenario Generation

Teach-to-Crash is a closed‑loop testing framework that uses a dual‑LLM architecture to generate collision‑inducing scenarios for autonomous driving systems. A high‑reasoning Teacher LLM controls the search when collision metrics stagnate, while a low‑reasoning Student LLM produces simulator‑executable scenarios in JSON. In a CARLA case study, Teach‑to‑Crash achieved the highest collision hit rate (90.79 %), the shortest mean time‑to‑collision (18.31 s), and superior diversity and avoidability metrics compared to other methods.

By Zaid Ghazal, Khouloud Gaaloul, Bruce Maxim