- Zhang, Q., Avraamidou, S., Paulson, J.A., Thakkar, V., Wang, Z., Chiang, L., Braun, B., Rathi, T., Chakrabarty, A., Sorouifar, F., Tang, W.-T., Guertin, F., Munoz, P., Sampat, A., "Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-106 PDF- @inproceedings{Zhang2025jul2,
- author = {Zhang, Qi and Avraamidou, Styliani and Paulson, Joel A. and Thakkar, Vyom and Wang, Zhenyu and Chiang, Leo and Braun, Birgit and Rathi, Tushar and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Sorouifar, Farshud and Tang, Wei-Ting and Guertin, France and Munoz, Paola and Sampat, Apoorva},
- title = {{Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-106}
- }
- Cardona, G., Vasile, C.-I., Di Cairano, S., "Truck Fleet Coordination for Warehouse Trailer Management by Temporal Logic with Energy Constraints", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-103 PDF- @inproceedings{Cardona2025jul,
- author = {Cardona, Gustavo and Vasile, Cristian-Ioan and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Truck Fleet Coordination for Warehouse Trailer Management by Temporal Logic with Energy Constraints}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-103}
- }
- Chavez Armijos, A., Berntorp, K., Di Cairano, S., "Safe Interactive Motion Planning by Differentiable Optimal Control and Online Preference Learning", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-104 PDF- @inproceedings{ChavezArmijos2025jul,
- author = {Chavez Armijos, Andres and Berntorp, Karl and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Safe Interactive Motion Planning by Differentiable Optimal Control and Online Preference Learning}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-104}
- }
- Pavlasek, N., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Geostationary Satellite Station Keeping and Collocation under High-Thrust Impulsive Control", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-101 PDF- @inproceedings{Pavlasek2025jul,
- author = {Pavlasek, Natalia and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
- title = {{Geostationary Satellite Station Keeping and Collocation under High-Thrust Impulsive Control}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-101}
- }
- Shimane, Y., Di Cairano, S., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits via Full-State Targeting Model Predictive Control", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-100 PDF- @inproceedings{Shimane2025jul,
- author = {Shimane, Yuri and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai},
- title = {{Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits via Full-State Targeting Model Predictive Control}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-100}
- }
- Raghunathan, A., Cardonha, C., Bergman, D., Nohra, C.J., "Recursive McCormick Linearization of Multilinear Programs", INFORMS J Computing, June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-098 PDF- @article{Raghunathan2025jun,
- author = {Raghunathan, Arvind and Cardonha, Carlos and Bergman, David and Nohra, Carlos J.},
- title = {{Recursive McCormick Linearization of Multilinear Programs}},
- journal = {INFORMS J Computing},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-098}
- }
- Das, G., Wang, B., Lin, C., "Topology Optimization of Electric Motors using Mesh Projection", International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-089 PDF- @inproceedings{Das2025jun2,
- author = {Das, Ghanendra and Wang, Bingnan and Lin, Chungwei},
- title = {{Topology Optimization of Electric Motors using Mesh Projection}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-089}
- }
- Li, X., Wang, Y., Ozbay, K., Jiang, Z.-P., "Physics-informed Machine Learning with Heuristic Feedback Control Layer for Autonomous Vehicle Control", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-087 PDF- @inproceedings{Li2025jun2,
- author = {Li, Xianning and Wang, Yebin and Ozbay, Kaan and Jiang, Zhong-Ping},
- title = {{Physics-informed Machine Learning with Heuristic Feedback Control Layer for Autonomous Vehicle Control}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-087}
- }
- Vinod, A.P., "pycvxset: A Python package for convex set manipulation", American Control Conference (ACC), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-086 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Vinod2025jun,
- author = {Vinod, Abraham P.},
- title = {{pycvxset: A Python package for convex set manipulation}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-086}
- }
- Chen, Y., Jha, D.K., Tomizuka, M., Romeres, D., "FDPP: Fine-tune Diffusion Policy with Human Preference", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-053 PDF Video- @inproceedings{Chen2025may,
- author = {Chen, Yuxin and Jha, Devesh K. and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{FDPP: Fine-tune Diffusion Policy with Human Preference}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-053}
- }
- Shirai, Y., Raghunathan, A., Jha, D.K., "Hierarchical Contact-Rich Trajectory Optimization for Multi-Modal Manipulation using Tight Convex Relaxations", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-052 PDF- @inproceedings{Shirai2025may,
- author = {Shirai, Yuki and Raghunathan, Arvind and Jha, Devesh K.},
- title = {{Hierarchical Contact-Rich Trajectory Optimization for Multi-Modal Manipulation using Tight Convex Relaxations}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-052}
- }
- Zhang, M., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hauser, K., "Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-rich Manipulation with High-Fidelity Geometry", IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-047 PDF- @article{Zhang2025apr,
- author = {Zhang, Mengchao and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hauser, Kris},
- title = {{Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-rich Manipulation with High-Fidelity Geometry}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-047}
- }
- Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Wang, Y., Mineyuki, T., Zhan, S., Tang, W.-T., Paulson, J.A., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., Laughman, C.R., "Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation", Building Simulation, DOI: 10.1007/s12273-025-1260-8, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-043 PDF- @article{Chakrabarty2025apr,
- author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Wang, Ye and Mineyuki, Takuma and Zhan, Sicheng and Tang, Wei-Ting and Paulson, Joel A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A. and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation}},
- journal = {Building Simulation},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- doi = {10.1007/s12273-025-1260-8},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-043}
- }
- Vinod, A.P., Weiss, A., Di Cairano, S., "Projection-free computation of robust controllable sets with constrained zonotopes", Automatica, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112211, Vol. 175, pp. 112211, March 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-023 PDF Video- @article{Vinod2025mar,
- author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Weiss, Avishai and Di Cairano, Stefano},
- title = {{Projection-free computation of robust controllable sets with constrained zonotopes}},
- journal = {Automatica},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 175,
- pages = 112211,
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112211},
- issn = {0005-1098},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-023}
- }
- Shao, K., Chakrabarty, A., Mesbah, A., Romeres, D., "Coactive Preference-Guided Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: An Application to Policy Learning in Personalized Plasma Medicine", IEEE Control Systems Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3521965, Vol. 8, pp. 3081-3086, February 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-021 PDF- @article{Shao2025feb,
- author = {Shao, Ketong and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Mesbah, Ali and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{Coactive Preference-Guided Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: An Application to Policy Learning in Personalized Plasma Medicine}},
- journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 8,
- pages = {3081--3086},
- month = feb,
- doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3521965},
- issn = {2475-1456},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-021}
- }
- Ip, J.H.S., Chakrabarty, A., Mesbah, A., Romeres, D., "User Preference Meets Pareto-Optimality in Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v39i19.34230, February 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-018 PDF- @inproceedings{Ip2025feb,
- author = {{{Ip, Joshua Hang Sai and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Mesbah, Ali and Romeres, Diego}}},
- title = {{{User Preference Meets Pareto-Optimality in Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization}}},
- booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
- year = 2025,
- month = feb,
- doi = {10.1609/aaai.v39i19.34230},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-018}
- }
- Vinod, A.P., Safaoui, S., Summers, T., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Decentralized, Safe, Multi-agent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3433229, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 2492-2499, January 2025.
BibTeX TR2024-136 PDF- @article{Vinod2025jan,
- author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Safaoui, Sleiman and Summers, Tyler and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Decentralized, Safe, Multi-agent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 32,
- number = 6,
- pages = {2492--2499},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3433229},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-136}
- }
- Elango, P., Vinod, A.P., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Continuous-Time Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Six-Degree-of-Freedom Powered-Descent Guidance", AIAA SciTech, DOI: 10.2514/6.2025-1894, January 2025, pp. 1-13.
BibTeX TR2025-008 PDF- @inproceedings{Elango2025jan,
- author = {Elango, Purnanand and Vinod, Abraham P. and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
- title = {{Continuous-Time Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Six-Degree-of-Freedom Powered-Descent Guidance}},
- booktitle = {AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {1--13},
- month = jan,
- publisher = {AIAA},
- doi = {10.2514/6.2025-1894},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-008}
- }
- Lu, Z., Zhang, T., Wang, Y., "Torque Constraint Modeling and Reference Shaping for Servo Systems", IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3509495, Vol. 8, pp. 2637-2642, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2025-006 PDF- @article{Lu2024dec2,
- author = {Lu, Zehui and Zhang, Tianpeng and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{Torque Constraint Modeling and Reference Shaping for Servo Systems}},
- journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 8,
- pages = {2637--2642},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3509495},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-006}
- }
- Lu, Z., Tu, H., Fang, H., Wang, Y., Mou, S., "Integrated Optimal Control for Fast Charging and Active Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Extreme Ambient Temperatures", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3498812, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 714-728, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2025-005 PDF- @article{Lu2024dec,
- author = {Lu, Zehui and Tu, Hao and Fang, Huazhen and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai},
- title = {{Integrated Optimal Control for Fast Charging and Active Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Extreme Ambient Temperatures}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 33,
- number = 2,
- pages = {714--728},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3498812},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-005}
- }
- Manchiraju, C., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G., Raghunathan, A., "Dynamic Pricing and Capacity Optimization in Railways", Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, DOI: 10.1287/msom.2022.0246, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 350-369, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2025-007 PDF- @article{Manchiraju2024dec,
- author = {Manchiraju, Chandrasekhar and Dawande, Milind and Janakiraman, Ganesh and Raghunathan, Arvind},
- title = {{Dynamic Pricing and Capacity Optimization in Railways}},
- journal = {Manufacturing and Service Operations Management},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 26,
- number = 1,
- pages = {350--369},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1287/msom.2022.0246},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-007}
- }
- Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Romeres, D., "Chance-Constrained Optimization for Contact-rich Systems using Mixed Integer Programming", Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, DOI: 10.1016/j.nahs.2024.101466, Vol. 52, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-008 PDF- @article{Shirai2024dec,
- author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{Chance-Constrained Optimization for Contact-rich Systems using Mixed Integer Programming}},
- journal = {Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 52,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1016/j.nahs.2024.101466},
- issn = {1751-570X},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-008}
- }
- Raghunathan, A., Linderoth, J., "Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Linear Complementarity Systems", SIAM Journal on Optimization, DOI: 10.1137/20M1387377, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 419-444, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2025-004 PDF- @article{Raghunathan2024dec,
- author = {Raghunathan, Arvind and Linderoth, Jeffrey},
- title = {{Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Linear Complementarity Systems}},
- journal = {SIAM Journal on Optimization},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 35,
- number = 1,
- pages = {419--444},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1137/20M1387377},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-004}
- }
- Chakrabarty, A., Deshpande, V.M., Wichern, G., Berntorp, K., "Physics-Constrained Meta-Learning for Online Adaptation and Estimation in Positioning Applications", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), DOI: 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886249, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-180 PDF- @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2024dec,
- author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Wichern, Gordon and Berntorp, Karl},
- title = {{Physics-Constrained Meta-Learning for Online Adaptation and Estimation in Positioning Applications}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2024,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886249},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-180}
- }
- Vinod, A.P., Weiss, A., Di Cairano, S., "Inscribing and separating an ellipsoid and a constrained zonotope: Applications in stochastic control and centering", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), DOI: 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886451, December 2024, pp. 8125-8131.
BibTeX TR2024-173 PDF- @inproceedings{Vinod2024dec,
- author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Weiss, Avishai and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Inscribing and separating an ellipsoid and a constrained zonotope: Applications in stochastic control and centering}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {8125--8131},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886451},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-173}
- }