Formalise Regulations for Autonomous Vehicles with Right-Open Temporal Deontic Defeasible Logic

Pak Yin Chan*, Xue Li, Yiwei Lu, Yuhui Lin, Alan Bundy

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Abstract

To negotiate the safety and liability concerns of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), manufacturers desire AVs to conform to traffic laws and regulations with auto-reasoning capabilities and the ability to detect passengers’ misbehaviour. Our study focuses on formalising regulations for AVs based on Temporal Deontic Defeasible Logic (TDDL). We adopt a directed obligation to introduce the person in charge of events that can differ from the event executor. We also relax the time intervals from bounded to right-open to enable AVs to conduct auto-reasoning even without knowing when events end. Based on the modified deontic and temporal features, a Right-Open TDDL (RTDDL) is developed. The UK Highway Code is selected to illustrate the proposed RTDDL to ensure the behaviours of AVs obey traffic laws in complex traffic scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence XLI. SGAI 2024
EditorsMax Bramer, Frederic Stahl
PublisherSpringer
Pages194-207
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9783031779183
ISBN (Print)9783031779176
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event44th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2024 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: 17 Dec 202419 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume15447
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference44th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2024
Abbreviated titleSGAI 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period17/12/2419/12/24

Keywords

  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Directed Obligation
  • Formalisation
  • Temporal Deontic Defeasible Logic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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