Responsibility Sensitive Safety

Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) is a framework for mathematically defining safety rules for autonomous vehicles, aiming to guarantee collision avoidance and, increasingly, goal achievement. Current research focuses on integrating RSS into motion planning algorithms, such as potential field methods, and formal verification techniques to rigorously prove the safety of resulting control strategies in complex scenarios like lane merging and intersection navigation. This work is crucial for ensuring the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles, providing both a theoretical foundation for safety guarantees and practical tools for designing and validating safer systems.