Technical Talks Matrix

This year’s ARC Annual Program Review dates are June 10-11, 2026. Below is last year’s information left up for reference.

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) Towsley Auditorium	1B: Human-Autonomy Interactions Session Chair: Victor Paul (GVSC) ML 103/123	1C: Materials and Structures Session Chair: Katie Sebeck (GVSC) ML 105/121
1:30	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
1:50	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
2:10	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
2:30	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
2:50 - 3:10	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	-

2025 Day 2 - June 18

Technical Session 2

	2A: Digital Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems Session Chair: Matt Castanier (GVSC) Towsley Auditorium	2B: Human-Autonomy Interactions Session Chair: Victor Paul (GVSC) ML 103/123	2C: Terramechanics Session Chair: Katie Sebeck (GVSC) ML 105/121
11:10	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
11:30	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
11:50 - 12:10	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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