Are there any industry whitepaper libraries that focus on autonomy approaches and safety research?

Yes — there are several good libraries and repositories that collect whitepapers, technical reports, and safety research on autonomy, especially for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and AI safety. A few of the most useful:

Industry / research libraries

• Waymo Research / Publications
  • Strong on autonomous driving, perception, planning, simulation, and safety-related work.
• Cruise Research / Publications
  • Mostly AV-focused papers and technical blog posts, some on safety and validation.
• Aurora / Publications
  • AV, trucking autonomy, and safety/validation-related research.
• Tesla AI / Autopilot publications
  • More limited and less centralized, but includes autonomy-related technical updates.
• NVIDIA Developer / Research
  • Good for autonomy stacks, simulation, robotics, perception, and safety tooling.

Broader whitepaper / paper libraries

• arXiv
  • Not an “industry library,” but it’s the largest repository for preprints on autonomy, robotics, and safety.
• Semantic Scholar
  • Great for discovering and filtering autonomy and safety papers across industry and academia.
• IEEE Xplore
  • Strong for autonomous systems, functional safety, control, and verification research.
• SAE Mobilus
  • Especially useful for automotive autonomy, AV safety, ODDs, validation, and engineering standards.
• NVIDIA GTC / Technical whitepapers
  • Often contains applied autonomy and safety content.

Safety-focused organizations and repositories

• Partnership on AI
  • AI safety and governance research, sometimes relevant to autonomous systems.
• Stanford Center for Automotive Research (if AV safety is your focus)
  • Has publications and research around AV validation and safety.
• USDOT / NHTSA / FMVSS-related technical reports
  • Regulatory and safety research for transportation autonomy.
• RAND reports
  • Good for policy, safety, deployment risk, and AV governance.

Robotics / autonomy research repositories

• Open Robotics / ROS discourse and docs
  • Not a whitepaper library per se, but often references relevant technical work.
• Google Scholar
  • Best for finding “whitepaper-like” technical reports from companies and labs.
• MIT CSAIL / CMU Robotics Institute / Berkeley AI Research
  • Strong autonomy and safety publications, though academic rather than industry-specific.

If you want specifically “industry whitepapers”

A practical way is to search by:

• company research pages: site:waymo.com research autonomy safety whitepaper
• conference papers and technical reports from:
  • CVPR, ICRA, RSS, NeurIPS, ICML, ITSC, IV, IROS
• safety/validation terms:
  • “operational design domain (ODD)”
  • “scenario-based validation”
  • “formal verification”
  • “functional safety”
  • “hazard analysis”
  • “runtime assurance”
  • “fail-operational autonomy”

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a curated list of the best autonomy/safety whitepaper sources, or
2. a search strategy + keywords tailored to autonomous vehicles, robotics, or AI systems.