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Agenda

The 2024 agenda has been finalized.

This year features our first co-event Summit on Advancing Modeling and Simulation for AGVs (SAMS AGV).

2024 Day 1 - June 5

8:00 AM	Light Breakfast Pendleton Room
9:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks Rogel Ballroom Dr. Bogdan Epureanu ARC Director, Professor, Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan Dr. David Gorsich Chief Scientist, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center
9:20	Keynote Rogel Ballroom M1 Acquisition in the Age of Army Digital Transformation and Drone Warfare COL Ryan A. Howell Program Manager, Main Battle Tank Systems, Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems
9:55	Keynote Rogel Ballroom Autonomy: From Abstraction to Reality Dr. Alvaro Velasquez Program Manager, Transfer from Imprecise and Abstract Models to Autonomous Technologies (TIAMAT), DARPA
10:30	Break
10:45	Case Study 1 Rogel Ballroom Through the Virtual Lens: Improving Human-Robot Team Performance via Training Reviews with a Virtual Spectator Interface (abstract)
11:30	Case Study 2 Rogel Ballroom What's a Little Dirt in the Eye? Detection and Adaptive Planning for Off-Road Autonomous Navigation under Soiled Sensors (abstract)
12:15 PM	Group Photo \| Lunch Rogel Ballroom \| Rogel Ballroom & Pendleton Room
1:30	Technical Session 1 (matrix of parallel sessions) Rogel Ballroom \| Room 2210 \| Wolverine
	Session 1.A \| Session 1.B \| Session 1.C
3:30 - 6:30	ARC Technology Showcase Posters and Reception Rogel Ballroom and Pendleton Room

2024 Day 2 - June 6

8:00 AM	Light Breakfast Pendleton Room
9:00	Opening Remarks Rogel Ballroom Dr. Steven Ceccio Interim Dean of Engineering, Vincent T and Gloria M Gorguze Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
9:10	Debate: Generative AI is the only way to truly autonomous systems Rogel Ballroom Dr. Dawn Tilbury Professor, Ronald D. and Regina C. McNeil Department Chair of Robotics, University of Michigan Dr. Dimitar Filev Senior Henry Ford Technical Fellow at Ford Motor Company (Retired) Dr. Henry Liu Director of Mcity, U. of Michigan Dr. Rada Mihalcea Michigan AI Director, Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan Moderators: Dr. Ram Vasudevan and Dr. Kira Barton Associate Directors, Automotive Research Center
10:20	Break
10:35	Technical Session 2 (matrix of parallel sessions) Rogel Ballroom \| Room 2210 \| Wolverine
	Session 2.A \| Session 2.B \| Session 2.C
12:40 PM	Awards & Lunch Awards in Rogel Ballroom Announcing Winners of Best Student Poster Competition Announcing Recipient of ARC Excellence in Research Award (ARC-ERA) Celebration of Dr. Dawn Tilbury's election to the National Academy of Engineering Dr. David Gorsich, Chief Scientist, DEVCOM GVSC Dr. Ellen Arruda, Tim Manganello / Borg Warner Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering, U of M Dr. Justin Storms, Director of Engineering, Autonomy and Robotics at Refraction AI Dr. Bogdan Epureanu, ARC Director, Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering, U of M Lunch in Rogel Ballroom & Pendleton Room

	Summit on Advancing Modeling and Simulation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles (SAMS AGV)
2:15	Welcome and Opening Remarks Rogel Ballroom Dr. Daniel Carruth Associate Director, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University Dr. Bogdan Epureanu Director, Automotive Research Center, University of Michigan Dr. David Gorsich Chief Scientist, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center
2:30	Addressing DoD Challenges in Modeling and Simulation at the Automotive Research Center Rogel Ballroom Panel discussion with the Automotive Research Center thrust leaders; ARC efforts to address DoD challenges in M&S Panelists Dr. Jon Smereka Senior Technical Expert, Ground Vehicle Robotics, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar Senior Technical Expert, Analytics, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Dr. Katie Sebeck Research Materials Engineer, Materials Application and Integration Team, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Dr. Vamshi Korivi Technical Expert, Analytics, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Dr. Matt Castanier Research Mechanical Engineer, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Dr. Steve Rapp Technical Specialist, Analytics, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center
3:30	Break
3:45	Standards and Interoperability in Modeling and Simulation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Rogel Ballroom Discussion of current efforts to support standardization, interoperability and portability of simulations Moderator: Mihir Acharya Panelists Mr. Aaron Prather Director of Robotics and Autonomous Systems Programs, ASTM International Mr. Karthik Krishnan Strategist North America, ASAM Dr. Seo-Wook Park Principal Application Engineer, MathWorks Dr. Rich Romano Staff Researcher, General Motors
4:45	ProjectGL: Lessons from Building a Modular and Extensible Simulation Software Framework Rogel Ballroom Mr. Jason Hogan Immersive Simulation, DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center
5:30	Networking / Social Event Pendleton Room

2024 Day 3 - June 7

8:00 AM	Light Breakfast Pendleton Room
9:00	Opening Remarks Rogel Ballroom Dr. Daniel Carruth Associate Director, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University
9:05	Keynote Speaker: Rogel Ballroom A Practitioner's Perspective on Next Generation Combat Vehicles Models & Simulations COL M. Ryan Howell Chief of Staff, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team
9:40	Industry Panel: Rogel Ballroom Discussion of industry support for M&S in off-road environments. Moderator: Daniel Carruth Panelists Mr. Joe Auchter Lead Engineer, Robotics, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Mr. Robert Belle-Isle Robotics Software Engineer, Neya Systems Mr. Brad Kriel Technical Program Manager, Duality AI Dr. David Kline Applied Intuition
10:40	Break
	Parallel Sessions
10:50	Main Room Technical Presentations Rogel Ballroom Session Chair: Sara Fuller Verification and Validation of Modeling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems A Case Study for VEET Dr. Peilin Song Research Mechanical Engineer, USACE Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory Enable Offroad Autonomy using Integrated Simulation with MATLAB and Simulink Mihir Acharya & Julia Braught Mathworks Modeling & Simulation in Support of the US Army and the DoD – A NAMC Perspective Col. (Ret.) Warren Sponsler Chief Operations Officer (COO), The National Advanced Mobility Consortium
10:50	Breakouts Room 2210 A, B and C Focused roundtable conversations: multiple breakout rooms, moderated group discussion, each room assigned a topic area and primed with material to drive discussion, try to achieve equal parts education and idea generation, unpacking recent successes, current challenges, and future of autonomous vehicle simulation. Breakout Session #1 – Cybersecurity and Communications M&S Moderator: Dr. Daniel Carruth, Mississippi State University Breakout Session #2 – Simulation Fidelity Moderator: Dr. Chris Goodin, Mississippi State University Breakout Session #3 – Test Design for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Moderator: Buhrmann Gates, USACE ERDC
11:50	Break
12:00 PM	Wrap Up Pendleton Room
12:10 - 2:10 PM	Lunch Reception and Networking Pendleton Room

ARC contact: arc-event-inquiries@umich.edu

SAMS AGV contact: samsagv.admin@cavs.msstate.edu