Vedang M. Deshpande

Vedang M. Deshpande
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    Vedang's research interests are in nonlinear and robust estimation and control of uncertain dynamic systems. His doctoral research focused on developing theoretical frameworks and algorithms for designing sparse sensing and actuation architectures with optimal instrument precisions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Vedang worked full-time in software verification and validation group at Honeywell Aerospace.

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  • MERL Publications

    •  Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., "Closed-Form Local Stability of a Pressure-Phase-Coordinate Control-Volume Model", Asian Modelica Conference, September 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-134 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Qiao2026sep,
      • author = {Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A.},
      • title = {{Closed-Form Local Stability of a Pressure-Phase-Coordinate Control-Volume Model}},
      • booktitle = {Asian Modelica Conference},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-134}
      • }
    •  Laughman, C.R., Qiao, H., Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., "On State Selection for Vapor Compression Cycle Models with Zeotropic Refrigerant Mixtures", Purdue Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Conference, July 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-109 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Laughman2026jul,
      • author = {{Laughman, Christopher R. and Qiao, Hongtao and Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M.}},
      • title = {{On State Selection for Vapor Compression Cycle Models with Zeotropic Refrigerant Mixtures}},
      • booktitle = {Purdue Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Conference},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-109}
      • }
    •  Zinage, S., Dixit, V., Chakrabarty, A., Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., Bilionis, I., Deshpande, V.M., "Sequential Model Calibration of Vapor Compression Cycles using Approximate Bayesian Computation", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-061 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Zinage2026may,
      • author = {Zinage, Shrenik and Dixit, Vaibhav and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R. and Bilionis, Ilias and Deshpande, Vedang M.},
      • title = {{Sequential Model Calibration of Vapor Compression Cycles using Approximate Bayesian Computation}},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • isbn = {979-8-3315-9381-0},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-061}
      • }
    •  Chakrabarty, A., Wichern, G., Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., Berntorp, K., Laughman, C.R., "Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification", Neurocomputing, DOI: 10.1016/​j.neucom.2025.130945, Vol. 651, pp. 130945, October 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-159 PDF
      • @article{Chakrabarty2025nov,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Wichern, Gordon and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P. and Berntorp, Karl and Laughman, Christopher R.},
      • title = {{Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification}},
      • journal = {Neurocomputing},
      • year = 2025,
      • volume = 651,
      • pages = 130945,
      • month = nov,
      • doi = {10.1016/j.neucom.2025.130945},
      • issn = {0925-2312},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-159}
      • }
    •  Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Laughman, C.R., Qiao, H., "A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles", International Modelica Conference, DOI: 10.3384/​ecp218345, September 2025, pp. 345-352.
      BibTeX TR2025-135 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025sep,
      • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Laughman, Christopher R. and Qiao, Hongtao},
      • title = {{A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles}},
      • booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16thInternational Modelica & FMI Conference},
      • year = 2025,
      • pages = {345--352},
      • month = sep,
      • publisher = {Linköping University Electronic Press},
      • doi = {10.3384/ecp218345},
      • issn = {1650-3740},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-135}
      • }
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  • Other Publications

    •  Vedang M. Deshpande, Raktim Bhattacharya and Kamesh Subbarao, "Sensor Placement With Optimal Precision for Temperature Estimation of Battery Systems", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 6, pp. 1082-1087, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{deshpande2022battery,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Subbarao, Kamesh},
      • title = {Sensor Placement With Optimal Precision for Temperature Estimation of Battery Systems},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2022,
      • volume = 6,
      • pages = {1082--1087}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: An Integrated Framework for $H_2/H_infty$ Optimal Observer Design", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 481-486, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{deshpande2021h2hinf,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: An Integrated Framework for $\mathcal{H}_2/\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Optimal Observer Design},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 5,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {481--486}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing Architectures with Optimal Precision for Tracking Multi-agent Systems in Sensing-denied Environments", 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021, pp. 1571-1576.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2021multiAgent,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing Architectures with Optimal Precision for Tracking Multi-agent Systems in Sensing-denied Environments},
      • booktitle = {2021 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {1571--1576}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: Robust $H_infty$ Optimal Observer Design with Model Uncertainty", 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021, pp. 4105-4110.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2021robustHinf,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: Robust $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Optimal Observer Design with Model Uncertainty},
      • booktitle = {2021 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {4105--4110}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande, Raktim Bhattacharya and Diego A. Donzis, "A unified framework to generate optimized compact finite difference schemes", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 432, pp. 110157, 2021.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{deshpande2021unified,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Donzis, Diego A.},
      • title = {A unified framework to generate optimized compact finite difference schemes},
      • journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 432,
      • pages = 110157,
      • url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999121000498}
      • }
    •  Sunsoo Kim, Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Robust Kalman Filtering With Probabilistic Uncertainty in System Parameters", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 295-300, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{kim2021robustKalman,
      • author = {Kim, Sunsoo and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Robust Kalman Filtering With Probabilistic Uncertainty in System Parameters},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 5,
      • number = 1,
      • pages = {295--300}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Surrogate Modeling of Dynamics From Sparse Data Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions", 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 2020, pp. 4046-4051.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2020maxent,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Surrogate Modeling of Dynamics From Sparse Data Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions},
      • booktitle = {2020 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {4046--4051}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Data-driven Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 7234-7239, 2020.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{deshpande2020maxentSDE,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Data-driven Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions},
      • journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
      • year = 2020,
      • volume = 53,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {7234--7239},
      • note = {21st IFAC World Congress},
      • url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896320308557}
      • }
    •  Vedang Deshpande, Niladri Das, Vaishnav Tadiparthi and Raktim Bhattacharya, "On Neural Network Training from Noisy Data using a Novel Filtering Framework", 2020, AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inbook{deshpande2020neural,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang and Das, Niladri and Tadiparthi, Vaishnav and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {On Neural Network Training from Noisy Data using a Novel Filtering Framework},
      • booktitle = {AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum},
      • year = 2020,
      • url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2020-1869}
      • }
    •  Sunsoo Kim, Vedang Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "$H_2$ Optimized PID Control of Quad-Copter Platform with Wind Disturbance", 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, pp. 839-844.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{kim2020h2pid,
      • author = {Kim, Sunsoo and Deshpande, Vedang and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {$\mathcal{H}_{2}$ Optimized PID Control of Quad-Copter Platform with Wind Disturbance},
      • booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {839--844}
      • }
    •  Niladri Das, Vedang Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Optimal-Transport-Based Tracking of Space Objects Using Range Data from a Single Ranging Station", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1237-1249, 2019.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{das2019otTracking,
      • author = {Das, Niladri and Deshpande, Vedang and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Optimal-Transport-Based Tracking of Space Objects Using Range Data from a Single Ranging Station},
      • journal = {Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
      • year = 2019,
      • volume = 42,
      • number = 6,
      • pages = {1237--1249},
      • url = {https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G003796}
      • }

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    • Title: "System and Method for Controlling an Operation of a Vapor Compression Cycle"
      Inventors: Deshpande, Vedang; Chinchilla, Raphael; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Laughman, Christopher
      Patent No.: 12,510,278
      Issue Date: Dec 30, 2025
    • Title: "System and Method for Monitoring an Operation of a Vapor Compression Cycle"
      Inventors: Laughman, Christopher; Deshpande, Vedang
      Patent No.: 12,366,395
      Issue Date: Jul 22, 2025
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