Publications

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  •  De Lazzari, D., Terreran, M., Giacomuzzo, G., Jain, S., Falco, P., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "Human Monitoring with Correlation-based Dynamic Time Warping for Collaborative Assembly", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - Workshop on The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From innovation to implementation, May 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-067 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{DeLazzari2025may2,
    • author = {De Lazzari, Davide and Terreran, Matteo and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Jain, Siddarth and Falco, Pietro and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Human Monitoring with Correlation-based Dynamic Time Warping for Collaborative Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - Workshop on The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From innovation to implementation},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-067}
    • }
  •  Giacomuzzo, G., Pegoraro, G., Terreran, M., Ghidoni, S., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "E-UHTP: An Extended Human-Aware Task Planner for Communication-Free Collaborative Assembly", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - Workshop on The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From innovation to implementation, May 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-066 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Giacomuzzo2025may,
    • author = {Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Pegoraro, Giulia and Terreran, Matteo and Ghidoni, Stefano and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{E-UHTP: An Extended Human-Aware Task Planner for Communication-Free Collaborative Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - Workshop on The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From innovation to implementation},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-066}
    • }
  •  Lu, K., Ma, C., Hori, C., Romeres, D., "KitchenVLA: Iterative Vision-Language Corrections for Robotic Execution of Human Tasks", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models in Robotics (SafeLVMs@ICRA), May 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-068 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lu2025may,
    • author = {Lu, Kai and Ma, Chenyang and Hori, Chiori and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{KitchenVLA: Iterative Vision-Language Corrections for Robotic Execution of Human Tasks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models in Robotics (SafeLVMs@ICRA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-068}
    • }
  •  De Lazzari, D., Terreran, M., Giacomuzzo, G., Jain, S., Falco, P., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "PACE: Proactive Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration through Action-Completion Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-064 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{DeLazzari2025may,
    • author = {De Lazzari, Davide and Terreran, Matteo and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Jain, Siddarth and Falco, Pietro and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{PACE: Proactive Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration through Action-Completion Estimation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-064}
    • }
  •  Zhou, Z., Di Cairano, S., Wang, Y., Berntorp, K., "Simultaneous Collision Detection and Force Estimation for Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-063 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhou2025may,
    • author = {Zhou, Ziyi and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Wang, Yebin and Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{Simultaneous Collision Detection and Force Estimation for Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-063}
    • }
  •  Bronars, A., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., "High-Accuracy Tactile Pose Estimation for Connector Assembly", ICRA 2025 Workshop on “Towards Human Level Intelligence Vision and Tactile Sensing”, May 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-057 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bronars2025may,
    • author = {Bronars, Antonia and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K.},
    • title = {{High-Accuracy Tactile Pose Estimation for Connector Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {ICRA 2025 Workshop on “Towards Human Level Intelligence Vision and Tactile Sensing”},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-057}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Turcato, N., Cali, M., Dalla Libera, A., Giacomuzzo, G., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "Learning global control of underactuated double pendulum with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - 3rd AI Olympics with RealAIGym Competition, April 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-046 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Turcato2025apr,
    • author = {Turcato, Niccolò and Cali, Marco and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Learning global control of underactuated double pendulum with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - 3rd AI Olympics with RealAIGym Competition},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-046}
    • }
  •  Hori, C., Kambara, M., Sugiura, K., Ota, K., Khurana, S., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Interactive Robot Action Replanning using Multimodal LLM Trained from Human Demonstration Videos", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49660.2025.10887717, April 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-034 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2025mar,
    • author = {Hori, Chiori and Kambara, Motonari and Sugiura, Komei and Ota, Kei and Khurana, Sameer and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Interactive Robot Action Replanning using Multimodal {LLM} Trained from Human Demonstration Videos}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10887717},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-034}
    • }
  •  Wang, J.-W., Nikovski, D.N., "Learning Visual Servoing for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Uncalibrated Cameras", The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-042 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2025mar2,
    • author = {Wang, Jen-Wei and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Learning Visual Servoing for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Uncalibrated Cameras}},
    • booktitle = {The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-042}
    • }
  •  Queeney, J., Paschalidis, I.C., Cassandras, C.G., "Generalized Policy Improvement Algorithms with Theoretically Supported Sample Reuse", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, DOI: 10.1109/​TAC.2024.3454011, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 1236-1243, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-015 PDF
    • @article{Queeney2025feb,
    • author = {Queeney, James and Paschalidis, Ioannis Ch. and Cassandras, Christos G.},
    • title = {{Generalized Policy Improvement Algorithms with Theoretically Supported Sample Reuse}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 70,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {1236--1243},
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/TAC.2024.3454011},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-015}
    • }
  •  Greiff, M., Sinhmar, H., Weiss, A., Berntorp, K., Di Cairano, S., "Invariant Set Planning for Quadrotors: Design, Analysis, Experiments", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/​TCST.2024.3492813, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 449-462, January 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-010 PDF
    • @article{Greiff2025jan,
    • author = {Greiff, Marcus and Sinhmar, Himani and Weiss, Avishai and Berntorp, Karl and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Invariant Set Planning for Quadrotors: Design, Analysis, Experiments}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 33,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {449--462},
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3492813},
    • issn = {1063-6536},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-010}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Zhong, J., Nikovski, D.N., Yerazunis, W.S., Ando, T., "Learning Time-Optimal Control of Gantry Cranes", International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICMLA61862.2024.00139, December 2024, pp. 945-950.
    BibTeX TR2024-181 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhong2024dec,
    • author = {Zhong, Junmin and Nikovski, Daniel N. and Yerazunis, William S. and Ando, Taishi},
    • title = {{Learning Time-Optimal Control of Gantry Cranes}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {945--950},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICMLA61862.2024.00139},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-181}
    • }
  •  Yin, J., Tsiotras, P., Berntorp, K., "Chance-Constrained Information-Theoretic Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Safety Shielding", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-179 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yin2024dec,
    • author = {Yin, Ji and Tsiotras, Panagiotis and Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{Chance-Constrained Information-Theoretic Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Safety Shielding}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-179}
    • }
  •  Nikovski, D.N., Zhong, J., Yerazunis, W.S., "Memory-Based Learning of Global Control Policies from Local Controllers", 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'24), November 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-158 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nikovski2024nov,
    • author = {Nikovski, Daniel N. and Zhong, Junmin and Yerazunis, William S.},
    • title = {{Memory-Based Learning of Global Control Policies from Local Controllers}},
    • booktitle = {21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'24)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = nov,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-158}
    • }
  •  Suresh, P., Romeres, D., Dosh, P., Jain, S., "Open Human-Robot Collaboration Systems (OHRCS): A Research Perspective", IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogML 2024), DOI: 10.1109/​CogMI62246.2024.00023, October 2024, pp. 103-110.
    BibTeX TR2024-150 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Suresh2024nov,
    • author = {Suresh, Prasanth and Romeres, Diego and Dosh, Prashant and Jain, Siddarth},
    • title = {{Open Human-Robot Collaboration Systems (OHRCS): A Research Perspective}},
    • booktitle = {2024 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {103--110},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
    • doi = {10.1109/CogMI62246.2024.00023},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-150}
    • }
  •  Chang, H., Boularias, A., Jain, S., "Insert-One: One-Shot Robust Visual-Force Servoing for Novel Object Insertion with 6-DoF Tracking", 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10801884, October 2024, pp. 2935-2942.
    BibTeX TR2024-137 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Chang2024oct,
    • author = {Chang, Haonan and Boularias, Abdeslam and Jain, Siddarth},
    • title = {{Insert-One: One-Shot Robust Visual-Force Servoing for Novel Object Insertion with 6-DoF Tracking}},
    • booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {2935--2942},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801884},
    • issn = {2153-0866},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7770-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-137}
    • }
  •  Suresh, P., Jain, S., Doshi, P., Romeres, D., "Open Human-Robot Collaboration using Decentralized Inverse Reinforcement Learning", 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10801889, October 2024, pp. 7092-7098.
    BibTeX TR2024-135 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Suresh2024oct,
    • author = {Suresh, Prasanth and Jain, Siddarth and Doshi, Prashant and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Open Human-Robot Collaboration using Decentralized Inverse Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {7092--7098},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801889},
    • issn = {2153-0866},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7770-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-135}
    • }
  •  Dalla Libera, A., Turcato, N., Giacomuzzo, G., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "Learning control of underactuated double pendulum with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning", Competition: AI Olympics With RealAIGym, October 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-142 PDF
    • @inproceedings{DallaLibera2024oct,
    • author = {Dalla Libera, Alberto and Turcato, Niccolò and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Learning control of underactuated double pendulum with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {Competition: AI Olympics With RealAIGym},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-142}
    • }
  •  Giacomuzzo, G., Terreran, M., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "DECAF: a Discrete-Event based Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Furniture Assembly", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10802728, October 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-138 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Giacomuzzo2024oct,
    • author = {Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Terreran, Matteo and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{DECAF: a Discrete-Event based Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Furniture Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802728},
    • issn = {2153-0866},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7770-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-138}
    • }
  •  Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Jain, S., Yerazunis, W.S., Corcodel, R., Shukla, Y., Bronars, A., Romeres, D., "Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems., DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10802423, October 2024, pp. 13525-13532.
    BibTeX TR2024-133 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ota2024oct,
    • author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Jain, Siddarth and Yerazunis, William S. and Corcodel, Radu and Shukla, Yash and Bronars, Antonia and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {13525--13532},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802423},
    • issn = {2153-0866},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-133}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Jain, S., Marks, T.K., "Few-shot Transparent Instance Segmentation for Bin Picking", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2024, pp. 5009-5016.
    BibTeX TR2024-127 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2024sep,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Jain, Siddarth and Marks, Tim K.},
    • title = {{Few-shot Transparent Instance Segmentation for Bin Picking}},
    • booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {5009--5016},
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-127}
    • }