Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating restarting operations for recovery processes in autonomous systems. In some aspects, an embodiment includes determining that an autonomous vehicle (AV) is experiencing a failure condition; identifying a plurality of restart operations to apply to one or more components of the AV contributing to the failure condition; prior to applying a restart operation of the plurality of restart operations, determining that safety conditions corresponding to the restart operation are satisfied; and applying the plurality of restart operations to the AV in accordance with an increasing order of disruptiveness of each of the restart operations to operations of the AV.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for initializing the localization of an autonomous vehicle (AV) based on sensor data. An example method can include determining a first position of an AV prior to a power cycle, wherein the power cycle begins when the AV is powered off and ends when the AV is powered on; receiving, after the power cycle, sensor data from one or more sensors of the AV, the sensor data comprising image data; and in response to a determination that the AV has completed the power cycle, determining, based on image data from one or more sensors of the AV, whether a second position of the AV after the power cycle matches the first position of the AV prior to the power cycle.