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From Lab to Warfighter—Faster: Brigadier General Scott Meyers Charts Bold Acceleration Strategy at ARC 2025
At the ARC Annual Review 2025, Brigadier General Scott Meyers outlined a strategy to accelerate defense technology from lab to battlefield using Michigan’s unique resources. He highlighted the ARC's pivotal role in swiftly transitioning innovations to meet real military needs through strategic partnerships with GVSC and MING, aiming to expedite U.S. Army modernization.
Economic Logic Meets Digital Ingenuity: Dr. Bruce D. Jette’s Call for Smarter Acquisition at ARC 2025 Keynote Address at the ARC Annual Review
During the Automotive Research Center Annual Review 2025, Dr. Bruce D. Jette underscored the importance of digital mastery, economic discipline, and human-centered design for military modernization, emphasizing the need for more efficient and integrated acquisition processes. Highlighting the ARC's collaboration with the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center, he advocated for reversing traditional defense workflows to leverage virtual modeling and simulation, while stressing the importance of clear interdisciplinary communication and innovation informed by real-world needs.
Off-road autonomy and digital twins: a Q&A with Bogdan Epureanu
Going beyond driving or tele-operating single vehicles, an up-to-date digital environment is needed to help humans operate fleets of autonomous vehicles.
Driving the Future of Autonomy: ARC Director Showcases “Mobility at Michigan” at SAE WCX 2025
At the 2025 SAE World Congress Experience, Professor Bogdan I. Epureanu highlighted the University of Michigan's leadership in advancing autonomous mobility through the U.S. Army Automotive Research Center, with applications in sectors like mining and agriculture.
ARC Hosts Digital Engineering Workshop to Shape the Future of Ground Vehicle Systems
The Automotive Research Center (ARC) at the University of Michigan, a U.S. Army Center of Excelling for Modeling and Simulation of Ground Vehicle Systems hosted a half day workshop to define research to support for the U.S. Army's directive to advance autonomous and off-road ground vehicle systems. Key participants, including Dr. David Gorsich, worked on defining basic DE research questions, had a panel discussion, an idea lab which prioritized research themes.
Adapting Engines for the Future
A team of researchers are exploring how to optimize hybrid engines to ensure longevity under all operating conditions
Bridging the Communication Gap
People have been chatting with machines for decades. Despite advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the conversations are not terribly dynamic and have proven to be grossly inadequate in a highly-dynamic, unstructured environment. Researchers at the University of Michigan are deconstructing the fundamental structures of natural dialog to create a model for autonomous vehicles to follow when in the field.
Mind Your Q&A’s
Researchers work on a new technology to help machines see, process, and communicate about their environment
Learning from Nature
A team of researchers are exploring how biosonar could be applied to improve navigation for autonomous vehicles
Navigation for the Twenty-first Century
Researchers are developing navigation technology to modernize ‘dead reckoning’ for autonomous vehicles