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Barrier Function Conformal Safety Clearance Certification with CVaR for Driving Trajectory Selection

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26533v1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:11:43 GMT
Title: Barrier Function Conformal Safety Clearance Certification with CVaR for Driving Trajectory Selection
Abstract summary: The framework evaluates the trajectory selected by ant planners and calibrates the gap between its plan time margin and realized safety clearance.<n>Across all evaluated statistics, exact-clearance coverage remains above the 90% target at 93.3--96.7%.
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Abstract: Autonomous driving motion planners generate and select candidate trajectories while accounting for interactions with surrounding agents. However, these evaluations do not certify the actual safety clearance of the selected trajectory. The framework evaluates the trajectory selected by ant planners and calibrates the gap between its plan time margin and realized safety clearance. A differentiable separating axis barrier margin deterministically lower bounds exact signed oriented-bounding-box (OBB) safety clearance, connecting the statistical certificate to safety margin. At plan time, the margin is evaluated using either a nominal prediction and sampled lower tail Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR), while post-selection conformal calibration over exchangeable drive sessions absorbs prediction and sampling errors. Conformal calibration provides statistical validity independently of predictor correctness. The method is evaluated on a frozen 300 session nuPlan study using native Predictive Driver Model (PDM) Closed loop proposals. At 10% target miscoverage, sampled lower CVaR reduces the conformal correction from 1.43m to 0.03m and increases the rate of nonnegative safety clearance certificates from 68.7% to 87.3%. Across all evaluated statistics, exact-clearance coverage remains above the 90% target at 93.3--96.7%.

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