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.
Note: Talk titles may be different from project titles.
2026 Day 1 - June 10 (A.M.)
Technical Session 1
| start time + | 1A: Perception & Planning Session Chair: Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar, GVSC room TBD |
1B: Human-Autonomy Interactions Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Chris Mikulski and Mr. Victor Paul, GVSC room TBD |
1C: Materials, Structures and Terramechanics Session Chair: Dr. Kathie Sebeck, GVSC room TBD |
| 0:00 - 0:20 | 1.39 Al Faruque Adaptive and Efficient Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Operating in Highly Stochastic Environments under Sensing Uncertainties |
2.19 Barton, Vermillion From Takeover to Teamwork: Adaptive Human-Autonomy Teaming Within and Between Vehicles |
3.23 KW Wang Adaptive Structures with Embedded Autonomy for Advancing Ground Vehicles |
| 0:20 - 0:40 | 1.41 Ersal, Epureanu Resilient Trajectory Planning for Extreme Mobility on Challenging Slopes |
2.20 Carruth, Bethel Hierarchical Task Management to Leverage Appropriate Trust and Reliance in Agents with Heterogeneous Behaviors |
3.25 Sugiyama Machine Learning-Augmented Multi-Fidelity Tire-Soil Interaction Model for Autonomous Off-Road Mobility Prediction |
| 0:40 - 1:00 | 1.42 Vasudevan Hybrid Learning-based Policy for High-Speed Autonomous Off-Road Navigation |
2.21 Tilbury, Robert Enhancing UGV Navigation with Adaptive Human Intervention |
3.27 Veerapaneni, Stokes Quantum Computing Innovation for Off-Road Mobility |
| 1:00 - 1:20 | rapid fire (3-min each) Year 1 projects 1.45 Aubin; Physics Forward Co-Design of Small, Enduring, Multimodal Ground Robots for Reconnaissance 1.46 Al Faruque; Graph-Enhanced Vision-Language Sensor Fusion for Robust Perception in Data-Scarce and Ambiguous Driving Scenarios |
2.26 Robert, Tilbury Shared Perspectives for Unforeseen Response in Human-Robot Teams (SPUR) |
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2026 Day 1 - June 10 (P.M.)
Technical Session 2
| start time + | 2A: Perception & Planning and Multi-Agent Systems Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Matt Castanier, Dr. Steve Rapp, GVSC room TBD |
2B: Human-Autonomy Interactions Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Chris Mikulski and Mr. Victor Paul, GVSC room TBD |
2C: Materials and Structures Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Kathie Sebeck, Dr. Vamshi Korivi, GVSC room TBD |
| 0:00 - 0:20 | 1.44 Parsa NEMOSYS: Neural Memory Organization System - Experience-based Neuromorphic Learning for Decision-making and Autonomous Maneuvering at the Edge |
2.22 Y. Wang Trust-Calibrated Meta-Learning for Adaptive Multi-Robot Motion Planning under Temporal Logic Specifications in Human-Robot Collaborative Bounding Overwatch |
3.A116 Fahlman Improving the Cyclability of Li-S Batteries Through Fe-Catalyzed Polysulfide Conversion |
| 0:20 - 0:40 | 5.21 Parsa Multi-Phase Vector Symbolic Architectures for Distributed and Collective Intelligence in Multi-Agent Autonomous Systems |
2.24 Mihalcea, Burzo, Epureanu Multimodal Real-Time Cognitive Load and Emotional State Detection for Human-Machine Interactive Formations |
3.A117 Mueller High Temperature PEM Fuel Cells |
| 0:40 - 1:00 | 1.43 Carruth Enhancing Fault Tolerance and Resilience in Autonomous Ground Vehicles through Detection and Diagnosis of Physical and Digital Attacks on Perception Systems |
2.25 Louie, Vonk Dynamic allocation of information through auditory, visual, and haptic interfaces to minimize cognitive burden |
3.A118 Jeong Structural Integrity Assessment of Army Ground Vehicle Structures for Predictive Maintenance |
| 1:00 - 1:20 | 5.23 Epureanu A Hierarchical Transformer Approach to Automate Co-Design of Vehicles and their Team Operations |
2.A127 Bochenek A3GENT: Engineering Adaptive Adversary Digital Twins for Autonomous Vehicle Validation |
3.A119 Glover Development and Application of Friction-Free Bending for Assessment of Material Properties under Complex Loading Conditions |
| 1:20 - 1:30 | rapid fire (3-min each) Year 1 projects 5.26 Ersal/Epureanu; Trajectory Planning with Omni-Experiential Learning for Robust Fleet Mobility on Extreme Off-Road Terrain 5.28 Incer; Provably Correct Fleet Operations and Vehicle SoS Integration with Assume-Guarantee Contracts 5.29 Panagou; AI-Enabled Command and Control via Multi-Agent Conformalized Risk Adaptation |
rapid fire (3-min each) Year 1 projects 2.27 Shi, KW Wang; Acoustic Hologram Integrated with Augmented and Virtual Realities for Communication 5.27 Y. Wang; Adaptive Vision-Language Model (VLM) and Vision-Language-Action Model (VLA) Enhanced Offroad Autonomy for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems |
rapid fire (3-min each) Year 1 projects: 3.28 KW Wang, Popa; Advancing Perception and Threat Identification of Autonomous Vehicles via Reconfigurable Phononic Metastructures 4.38 Adera; Multifunctional and reconfigurable dual energy storage and transient thermal management solution for electronics |
2025 Day 2 - June 11 (A.M.)
Technical Session 3
| start time + | 3A: Digital Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems Session Chair: Dr. Steve Rapp, GVSC room TBD |
3B: Perception & Planning Session Chair: TBD room TBD |
3C: Terramechanics Session Chair: Dr. Kathie Sebeck, GVSC room TBD |
| 0:00 - 0:20 | 5.22 Vlahopoulos Unsupervised Testing and Verification for Software Systems of Ground Autonomous Vehicles |
1.A122 Chamzas, Xiao, Moradi UGV-guided Real-time Path Planning for a Vehicle Platoon in Rough Terrains |
3.A120 Vantsevich, Moradi Simple Terramechanics-based Tire and Soil Separation for Tire Behavior Characterization |
| 0:20 - 0:40 | 5.24 Epureanu LLM-Enabled Operation Management of Multi-Agent Systems |
1.A123 Ghasemi, Moradi Model-free Tracking Control Design for a Class of Nonaffine Nonlinear Systems |
3.A121 Furlong, Moradi Analytical Fundamentals of Digital Image Correlation for Characterization of Agile Tire Dynamics |
| 0:40 - 1:00 | 5.25 S. Masoud, N. Masoud Enhancing Military Digital Twins: Leveraging Dynamic Data-Driven Application Systems for Complex Operational Scenarios |
1.A124 Vantsevich, Moradi, Patel Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals of Agile Vehicle Maneuvers in Hyper-Dynamic Environments |
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| 1:00 - 1:20 | 5.A126 Pinciroli, Moradi Autonomous Multi-UAV Reconnaissance in a Complex Environment |
1.A125 Leahy, Vantsevich, Moradi Verified Planning for Uncrewed Ground Vehicles in Dynamic Environments |
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