- Wiebe, F., Turcato, N., Dalla Libera, A., Seong Bjorn Choe, J., Choi, B., Faust, T.L., Maraqten, H., Aghadavoodi, E., Cali, M., Sinigaglia, A., Giacomuzzo, G., Carli, R., Romeres, D., Kim, J.-K., Susto, G.A., Vyas, S., Mronga, D., Belousov, B., Peters, J., Kirchner, F., Kumar, S., "Reinforcement Learning for Robust Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 2nd “AI Olympics with RealAIGym” Competition", IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-013 PDF- @article{Wiebe2026jan,
- author = {{{Wiebe, Felix and Turcato, Niccolò and Dalla Libera, Alberto and Seong Bjorn Choe, Jean and Choi, Bumkyu and Faust, Tim Lukas and Maraqten, Habib and Aghadavoodi, Erfan and Cali, Marco and Sinigaglia, Alberto and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego and Kim, Jong-kook and Susto, Gian Antonio and Vyas, Shubham and Mronga, Dennis and Belousov, Boris and Peters, Jan and Kirchner, Frank and Kumar, Shivesh}}},
- title = {{{Reinforcement Learning for Robust Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 2nd “AI Olympics with RealAIGym” Competition}}},
- journal = {IEEE Robotics \& Automation Magazine},
- year = 2026,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-013}
- }
- Shirai, Y., Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., "Learning Non-prehensile Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-011 PDF Video- @article{Shirai2026jan,
- author = {Shirai, Yuki and Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{Learning Non-prehensile Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations}},
- journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
- year = 2026,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-011}
- }
- De Lazzari, D., Terreran, M., Giacomuzzo, G., Jain, S., Falco, P., Carli, R., Ghidoni, S., Romeres, D., "Real-time Human Progress Estimation with Online Dynamic Time Warping for Collaborative Robotics", Frontiers, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-173 PDF- @article{DeLazzari2025dec,
- author = {De Lazzari, Davide and Terreran, Matteo and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Jain, Siddarth and Falco, Pietro and Carli, Ruggero and Ghidoni, Stefano and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{Real-time Human Progress Estimation with Online Dynamic Time Warping for Collaborative Robotics}},
- journal = {Frontiers},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-173}
- }
- Van der Merwe, M., Ota, K., Berenson, D., Fazeli, N., Jha, D.K., "Simultaneous Extrinsic Contact and In-Hand Pose Estimation via Distributed Tactile Sensing", IEEE RA-L, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-002 PDF- @article{VanderMerwe2025dec2,
- author = {Van der Merwe, Mark and Ota, Kei and Berenson, Dmitry and Fazeli, Nima and Jha, Devesh K.},
- title = {{Simultaneous Extrinsic Contact and In-Hand Pose Estimation via Distributed Tactile Sensing}},
- journal = {IEEE RA-L},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-002}
- }
- Uzun, S., Acikmese, B., Di Cairano, S., "Motion Planning for Information Acquisition via Continuous-time Successive Convexification", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-170 PDF- @inproceedings{Uzun2025dec,
- author = {Uzun, Samet and Acikmese, Behcet and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Motion Planning for Information Acquisition via Continuous-time Successive Convexification}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-170}
- }
- Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., Hori, C., Cherian, A., Zhao, D., "AxisBench: What Can Go Wrong in VLMs’ Spatial Reasoning?", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-168 PDF- @inproceedings{Zhang2025dec2,
- author = {{{Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu and Hori, Chiori and Cherian, Anoop and Zhao, Ding}}},
- title = {{{AxisBench: What Can Go Wrong in VLMs’ Spatial Reasoning?}}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-168}
- }
- Shirai, Y., Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., "Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Pivoting via Optimization-Guided RL with Vision and Touch", Embodied World Models for Decision Making, NeurIPS Workshop, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-169 PDF Video- @inproceedings{Shirai2025dec,
- author = {Shirai, Yuki and Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Pivoting via Optimization-Guided RL with Vision and Touch}},
- booktitle = {NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Embodied World Models for Decision Making},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-169}
- }
- Hori, C., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-167 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2025dec,
- author = {Hori, Chiori and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-167}
- }
- Van der Merwe, M., Jha, D.K., "In-Context Policy Iteration for Dynamic Manipulation", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Embodied World Models for Decision Making, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-163 PDF Video- @inproceedings{VanderMerwe2025dec,
- author = {Van der Merwe, Mark and Jha, Devesh K.},
- title = {{In-Context Policy Iteration for Dynamic Manipulation}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Embodied World Models for Decision Making},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-163}
- }
- Gambill, P., Jha, D.K., Krishnamoorthy, B., Raghunathan, A., Yerazunis, W.S., "DamageEst: Accurate Estimation of Damage for Repair using Additive Manufacturing", Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF), November 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-158 PDF Presentation- @inproceedings{Gambill2025nov,
- author = {{{Gambill, Patrick and Jha, Devesh K. and Krishnamoorthy, Bala and Raghunathan, Arvind and Yerazunis, William S.}}},
- title = {{{DamageEst: Accurate Estimation of Damage for Repair using Additive Manufacturing}}},
- booktitle = {Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF)},
- year = 2025,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-158}
- }
- Nikovski, D.N., "Observation-Based Inverse Kinematics for Visual Servo Control", 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), October 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-153 PDF- @inproceedings{Nikovski2025oct,
- author = {Nikovski, Daniel N.},
- title = {{Observation-Based Inverse Kinematics for Visual Servo Control}},
- booktitle = {22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO)},
- year = 2025,
- month = oct,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-153}
- }
- Piedade, V., Chitturi, S., Gaspar, J., Govindu, V., Miraldo, P., "SAC-GNC: SAmple Consensus for adaptive Graduated Non-Convexity", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-146 PDF Presentation- @inproceedings{Piedade2025oct,
- author = {{{Piedade, Valter and Chitturi, Sidhartha and Gaspar, Jose and Govindu, Venu and Miraldo, Pedro}}},
- title = {{{SAC-GNC: SAmple Consensus for adaptive Graduated Non-Convexity}}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
- year = 2025,
- month = oct,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-146}
- }
- Jaitly, A., Jha, D.K., Ota, K., Shirai, Y., "Analytic Conditions for Differentiable Collision Detection in Trajectory Optimization", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246568, October 2025, pp. 6659-6666.
BibTeX TR2025-150 PDF Video- @inproceedings{Jaitly2025oct,
- author = {Jaitly, Akshay and Jha, Devesh K. and Ota, Kei and Shirai, Yuki},
- title = {{Analytic Conditions for Differentiable Collision Detection in Trajectory Optimization}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {6659--6666},
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246568},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-150}
- }
- Karumanchi, S., Rokaha, B., Schperberg, A., Vinod, A.P., "Energy-constrained multi-robot exploration for autonomous map building", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247332, October 2025, pp. 9154-9161.
BibTeX TR2025-131 PDF- @inproceedings{Karumanchi2025oct,
- author = {Karumanchi, Sambhu and Rokaha, Bhagawan and Schperberg, Alexander and Vinod, Abraham P.},
- title = {{Energy-constrained multi-robot exploration for autonomous map building}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {9154--9161},
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247332},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-131}
- }
- Ma, H., Dai, B., Ren, Z., Wang, Y., Li, N., "Offline Imitation Learning upon Arbitrary Demonstrations by Pre-Training Dynamics Representations", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-147 PDF- @inproceedings{Ma2025oct,
- author = {Ma, Haitong and Dai, Bo and Ren, Zhaolin and Wang, Yebin and Li, Na},
- title = {{Offline Imitation Learning upon Arbitrary Demonstrations by Pre-Training Dynamics Representations}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2025,
- month = oct,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-147}
- }
- Schperberg, A., Menner, M., Di Cairano, S., "Energy-Efficient Motion Planner for Legged Robots", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246509, October 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-151 PDF Video- @inproceedings{Schperberg2025oct,
- author = {Schperberg, Alexander and Menner, Marcel and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Energy-Efficient Motion Planner for Legged Robots}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2025,
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246509},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-151}
- }
- Vats, S., Jha, D.K., Likhachev, M., Kroemer, O., Romeres, D., "RecoveryChaining: Learning Local Recovery Policies for Robust Manipulation", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-152 PDF Video- @inproceedings{Vats2025oct,
- author = {Vats, Shivam and Jha, Devesh K. and Likhachev, Maxim and Kroemer, Oliver and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{RecoveryChaining: Learning Local Recovery Policies for Robust Manipulation}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2025,
- month = oct,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-152}
- }
- Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., "Bipedalism for Quadrupedal Robots: Versatile Loco-Manipulation through Risk-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning", IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids65713.2025.11203112, September 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-140 PDF- @inproceedings{Zhang2025sep2,
- author = {Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu},
- title = {{Bipedalism for Quadrupedal Robots: Versatile Loco-Manipulation through Risk-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning}},
- booktitle = {IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots},
- year = 2025,
- month = sep,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/Humanoids65713.2025.11203112},
- isbn = {979-8-3315-9869-3},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-140}
- }
- Van der Merwe, M., Jha, D.K., "In-Context Iterative Policy Improvement for Dynamic Manipulation", Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), September 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-136 PDF Video- @inproceedings{VanderMerwe2025sep,
- author = {Van der Merwe, Mark and Jha, Devesh K.},
- title = {{In-Context Iterative Policy Improvement for Dynamic Manipulation}},
- booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
- year = 2025,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-136}
- }
- Pegoraro, G., Giacomuzzo, G., Terreran, M., Ghidoni, S., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "Hierarchical Task Planning for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly", IFAC Joint Conference on Computers, Cognition, and Communication, September 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-134 PDF- @inproceedings{Pegoraro2025sep,
- author = {Pegoraro, Giulia and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Terreran, Matteo and Ghidoni, Stefano and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{Hierarchical Task Planning for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly}},
- booktitle = {IFAC Joint Conference on Computers, Cognition, and Communication},
- year = 2025,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-134}
- }
- Stein, A., Wang, Y., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., Fang, H., "Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator", IEEE Conference on Automation and Science Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/CASE58245.2025.11164119, August 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-121 PDF- @inproceedings{Stein2025aug,
- author = {Stein, Adrian and Wang, Yebin and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan and Fang, Huazhen},
- title = {{Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Automation and Science Engineering},
- year = 2025,
- month = aug,
- doi = {10.1109/CASE58245.2025.11164119},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-121}
- }
- Nikovski, D.N., "Disentangled Object-Centric Configuration Representation Learning for Articulated Robot Arms", 11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT'25, July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-108 PDF- @inproceedings{Nikovski2025jul,
- author = {Nikovski, Daniel N.},
- title = {{Disentangled Object-Centric Configuration Representation Learning for Articulated Robot Arms}},
- booktitle = {11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT'25},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-108}
- }
- 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), DOI: 10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107663, 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,
- doi = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107663},
- 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), DOI: 10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107681, 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,
- doi = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107681},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-104}
- }
- Choi, H.J., Jain, S., "A Unified Framework for Gaussian-Based Scene Representation and Reactive Robot Control", Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 Workshop on Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy, June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-096 PDF- @inproceedings{Choi2025jun,
- author = {Choi, Ho Jin and Jain, Siddarth},
- title = {{A Unified Framework for Gaussian-Based Scene Representation and Reactive Robot Control}},
- booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 Workshop on Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-096}
- }