Technical Talks Matrix
The Technical Talks allow ARC project teams to report on their research goals and outcomes. Each talk will consist of a 15-minute presentation followed by 5-minute for Q&A.
Click here for talk abstracts. Talk titles may be different from project titles.
2025 Day 1 - June 17
Technical Session 1
| 1A: Perception and Planning Session Chairs: Jon Smereka, Parasmothy Jayakumar (GVSC) |
1B: Human-Autonomy Interactions Session Chair: Victor Paul (GVSC) |
1C: Materials and Structures Session Chair: Katie Sebeck (GVSC) |
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| 0:00 | Project 1.38, PI: Carruth Robust Perception in Adverse Conditions: Detecting, Diagnosing, and Recovering from Camera Occlusions |
Project 2.17, PIs: Tilbury, Robert Adapting Robot Communication to Estimated Situation Awareness Improves Performance in Human-Robot Teams |
Project 3.19, PI: Lu, Epureanu, Popa Intelligent Ultrasound to Adaptively Control Interfacial Properties and Reactions |
| 0:20 | Project 1.39, PI: Al Faruque Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties |
Project 2.18, PI: Kim Task Allocation and Communication Strategies in Human-AI Teaming: An Empirical Investigation Using Dual-Task Simulation |
Project 3.23, PI: KW Wang Adaptive Structures with Embedded Autonomy for Advancing Ground Vehicles |
| 0:40 | Project 1.40, PI: Goodin Touch-based Sensing for Evaluating Vegetation in Complex Navigation Environments |
Project 2.19, PIs: Barton, Vermillion Who’s The Boss? Understanding Human-Autonomy in Shared Driving Applications |
Project 3.24, PI: Valdevit, Apelian Additively Manufactured All-metallic Metamaterial Solutions for Protection of Electronic Systems in Autonomous Vehicles |
| 1:00 | Project 1.41, PIs: Ersal, Epureanu Resilient Trajectory Planning for Extreme Mobility on Challenging Slopes |
Project 2.20, PIs: Carruth, Bethel Multi-Directional Reliance and Effective Collaborative Human-Autonomy Teaming |
Project 3.27, PIs: Veerapaneni, Stokes Quantum Computing Innovation for Off-Road Mobility |
| 1:20 - 1:40 | Project 1.42, PI: Vasudevan Hybrid Learning-based Policy for High-Speed Autonomous Off-Road Navigation |
Project 2.21, PIs: Tilbury, Robert Human-Autonomy Collaboration for Escaping Local Minima |
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2025 Day 2 - June 18
Technical Session 2
| 2C: Digital Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems Session Chair: Matt Castanier (GVSC) |
2B: Human-Autonomy Interactions Session Chair: Victor Paul (GVSC) |
2C: Terramechanics Session Chair: Katie Sebeck (GVSC) |
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| 0:00 | Project 5.21, PI: Parsa Multi-Phase Vector Symbolic Architectures for Distributed and Collective Intelligence in Multi-Agent Autonomous Systems |
Project 2.22, PI: Yue Wang Preference-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Human-Robot Collaborative Bounding Overwatch |
Project 3.20, PI: Sugiyama Modeling of a Ground Vehicle Operating in Shallow Water |
| 0:20 | Project 5.22, PI: Vlahopoulos Detecting Elusive Faults in ROS2 Systems using a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm |
Project 2.23, PI: Gorodetsky Incremental tensor decompositions for discovering low-dimensional latent spaces and their applications for generative modeling |
Project 3.22, PIs: Sandu, Yerro-Colom Terramechanics of Saturated Clays: Assessing Tire Performance Through Experimental and Numerical Approaches |
| 0:40 - 1:00 | Project 5.23, PI: Epureanu A Hierarchical Transformer Approach to Automate Co-Design of Vehicle Attributes and their Team Operations |
Project 2.A98, PI: Louie Exploring the Influence of Embodiment on Data and Conversation Quality for Virtual Agent Interviewers |
Project 3.25, PI: Sugiyama Machine Learning-Augmented Multi-Fidelity Tire-Soil Interaction Model for Autonomous Off-Road Mobility Prediction |
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