Publications

3,599 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Ngheim, T.X., Drgona, J., Jones, C., Nagy, Z., Schwan, R., Dey, B., Chakrabarty, A., Di Cairano, S., Paulson, J.A., Carron, A., Zeilinger, M., Cortez, W.S., Vrabie, D.L., "Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC55779.2023.10155901, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-052 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ngheim2023may,
    • author = {Ngheim, Truong X. and Drgona, Jan and Jones, Colin and Nagy, Zoltan and Schwan, Roland and Dey, Biswadip and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Di Cairano, Stefano and Paulson, Joel A. and Carron, Andrea and Zeilinger, Melanie and Cortez, Wenceslaw S. and Vrabie, Draguna L.},
    • title = {Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155901},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-052}
    • }
  •  Paulson, J.A., Sorouifar, F., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "LSR-BO: Local Search Region Constrained Bayesian Optimization for Performance Optimization of Vapor Compression Systems", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC55779.2023.10155821, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-057 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Paulson2023may,
    • author = {Paulson, Joel A. and Sorouifar, Farshud and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {LSR-BO: Local Search Region Constrained Bayesian Optimization for Performance Optimization of Vapor Compression Systems},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155821},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-057}
    • }
  •  Petersen, C., Caverly, R., Phillips, S., Weiss, A., "Safe and Constrained Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC55779.2023.10155826, May 2023, pp. 3645-3661.
    BibTeX TR2024-016 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Petersen2023may,
    • author = {Petersen, Chris and Caverly, Ryan and Phillips, Sean and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {Safe and Constrained Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {3645--3661},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155826},
    • issn = {2378-5861},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2806-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-016}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Romeres, D., "Chance-Constrained Optimization in Contact-rich Systems", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC55779.2023.10156516, May 2023, pp. 14-21.
    BibTeX TR2023-061 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Shirai2023may4,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {Chance-Constrained Optimization in Contact-rich Systems},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {14--21},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156516},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-061}
    • }
  •  Skibik, T., Vinod, A.P., Weiss, A., Di Cairano, S., "MPC with Integrated Evasive Maneuvers for Failure-safe Automated Driving", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2023, pp. 1122-1128.
    BibTeX TR2023-055 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Skibik2023may,
    • author = {Skibik, Terrence and Vinod, Abraham P. and Weiss, Avishai and Di Cairano, Stefano},
    • title = {MPC with Integrated Evasive Maneuvers for Failure-safe Automated Driving},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1122--1128},
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-055}
    • }
  •  Suriyarachchi, N., Quirynen, R., Baras, J.S., Di Cairano, S., ,, "Optimization-based Coordination and Control of Traffic Lights and Mixed Traffic in Multi-Intersection Environments", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC55779.2023.10156306, May 2023, pp. 3162-3168.
    BibTeX TR2023-059 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Suriyarachchi2023may,
    • author = {Suriyarachchi, Nilesh and Quirynen, Rien and Baras, John S. and Di Cairano, Stefano and},
    • title = {Optimization-based Coordination and Control of Traffic Lights and Mixed Traffic in Multi-Intersection Environments},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {3162--3168},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156306},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-059}
    • }
  •  Vinod, A.P., Di Cairano, S., "Sample quantile-based programming for non-convex separable chance constraints", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2023, pp. 1517-1522.
    BibTeX TR2023-062 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Vinod2023may,
    • author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Di Cairano, Stefano},
    • title = {Sample quantile-based programming for non-convex separable chance constraints},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1517--1522},
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-062}
    • }
  •  You, S., Greiff, M., Quirynen, R., Ran, S., Wang, Y., Berntorp, K., Dai, R., Di Cairano, S., "Integral Action NMPC for Tight Maneuvers of Articulated Vehicles", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC55779.2023.10156543, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-058 PDF
    • @inproceedings{You2023may,
    • author = {You, Sixiong and Greiff, Marcus and Quirynen, Rien and Ran, Shuangxuan and Wang, Yebin and Berntorp, Karl and Dai, Ran and Di Cairano, Stefano},
    • title = {Integral Action NMPC for Tight Maneuvers of Articulated Vehicles},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156543},
    • issn = {2378-5861},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-058}
    • }
  •  Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., "Vision Guided Food Assembly by Robot Teaching from Target Composition", ICRA 2023 Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping IV (TIG-IV): From Farm to Fork, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-067 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Jain2023may,
    • author = {Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {Vision Guided Food Assembly by Robot Teaching from Target Composition},
    • booktitle = {ICRA 2023 Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping IV (TIG-IV): From Farm to Fork},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-067}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Jain, S., Marks, T.K., Sullivan, A., "Discriminative 3D Shape Modeling for Few-Shot Instance Segmentation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160644, May 2023, pp. 9296-9302.
    BibTeX TR2023-010 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2023may,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Jain, Siddarth and Marks, Tim K. and Sullivan, Alan},
    • title = {Discriminative 3D Shape Modeling for Few-Shot Instance Segmentation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {9296--9302},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160644},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-010}
    • }
  •  Curtis, A., Kaelbling, L., Jain, S., "Task-Directed Exploration in Continuous POMDPs for Robotic Manipulation of Articulated Objects", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160306, May 2023, pp. 3721-3728.
    BibTeX TR2023-046 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Curtis2023may,
    • author = {Curtis, Aidan and Kaelbling, Leslie and Jain, Siddarth},
    • title = {Task-Directed Exploration in Continuous POMDPs for Robotic Manipulation of Articulated Objects},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {3721--3728},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160306},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2365-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-046}
    • }
  •  Haruna, M., Ogino, M., Tagashira, S., Kashiwa, M., Morita, S., Koike-Akino, T., Imai, K., Zuho, T., Makita, M., Takahashi, Y., "Avatar Technologies of Team LAST MILE Toward Mobile Smart Device Operation Service", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-047 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Haruna2023may,
    • author = {Haruna, Masaki and Ogino, Masaki and Tagashira, Shigeaki and Kashiwa, Munetaka and Morita, Susumu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Imai, Kota and Zuho, Tiancheng and Makita, Masashi and Takahashi, Yasutake},
    • title = {Avatar Technologies of Team LAST MILE Toward Mobile Smart Device Operation Service},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-047}
    • }
  •  Kim, S., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Rodriguez, A., "Simultaneous Tactile Estimation and Control of Extrinsic Contact", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10161158, May 2023, pp. 12563-12569.
    BibTeX TR2023-025 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Kim2023may,
    • author = {Kim, Sangwoon and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and Rodriguez, Alberto},
    • title = {Simultaneous Tactile Estimation and Control of Extrinsic Contact},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {12563--12569},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161158},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-025}
    • }
  •  Ota, K., Tung, H.-Y., Smith, K., Cherian, A., Marks, T.K., Sullivan, A., Kanezaki, A., Tenenbaum, J.B., "H-SAUR: Hypothesize, Simulate, Act, Update, and Repeat for Understanding Object Articulations from Interactions", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160575, May 2023, pp. 7272-7278.
    BibTeX TR2023-009 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ota2023may,
    • author = {Ota, Kei and Tung, Hsiao-Yu and Smith, Kevin and Cherian, Anoop and Marks, Tim K. and Sullivan, Alan and Kanezaki, Asako and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.},
    • title = {H-SAUR: Hypothesize, Simulate, Act, Update, and Repeat for Understanding Object Articulations from Interactions},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {7272--7278},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160575},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-009}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., "Covariance Steering for Uncertain Contact-Rich Systems", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160249, May 2023, pp. 7923-7929.
    BibTeX TR2023-024 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Shirai2023may3,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind},
    • title = {Covariance Steering for Uncertain Contact-Rich Systems},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {7923--7929},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160249},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2365-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-024}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hong, D., "Tactile Tool Manipulation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160480, May 2023, pp. 12597-12603.
    BibTeX TR2023-023 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Shirai2023may2,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hong, Dennis},
    • title = {Tactile Tool Manipulation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {12597--12603},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160480},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2365-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-023}
    • }
  •  Wang, X., Kim, K.J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., "DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), DOI: 10.1109/​ICC45041.2023.10279563, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-050 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2023may,
    • author = {Wang, Xinda and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279563},
    • issn = {1938-1883},
    • isbn = {978-1-5386-7462-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-050}
    • }
  •  Kim, K.J., Vinod, A.P., Guo, J., Deshpande, V.M., Parsons, K., "Spectrum Sharing-inspired Safe Motion Planning", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-049 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kim2023may2,
    • author = {Kim, Kyeong Jin and Vinod, Abraham P. and Guo, Jianlin and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {Spectrum Sharing-inspired Safe Motion Planning},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-049}
    • }
  •  Zhang, X., Jain, S., Baichuan, H., Tomizuka, M., Romeres, D., "Learning Generalizable Pivoting Skills", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10161271, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-045 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2023may4,
    • author = {Zhang, Xiang and Jain, Siddarth and Baichuan, Huang and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {Learning Generalizable Pivoting Skills},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161271},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2365-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-045}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hong, D., "Closed-Loop Tactile Controller for Tool Manipulation", ICRA 2023 Workshop on Embracing contacts. Making robots physically interact with our world, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-043 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Shirai2023may,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hong, Dennis},
    • title = {Closed-Loop Tactile Controller for Tool Manipulation},
    • booktitle = {ICRA 2023 Workshop on Embracing contacts. Making robots physically interact with our world},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-043}
    • }
  •  Zhang, M., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hauser, K., "STOCS: Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-Rich Manipulation", ICRA 2023 Workshop on Embracing contacts. Making robots physically interact with our world, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-044 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2023may3,
    • author = {Zhang, Mengchao and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hauser, Kris},
    • title = {STOCS: Simultaneous Trajectory Optimization and Contact Selection for Contact-Rich Manipulation},
    • booktitle = {ICRA 2023 Workshop on Embracing contacts. Making robots physically interact with our world},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-044}
    • }
  •  Sakamoto, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, B., Yamamoto, T., Nishimura, Y., "Electric Motor Surrogate Model Combining Subdomain Method and Neural Network", Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-041 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sakamoto2023may2,
    • author = {Sakamoto, Yusuke and Xu, Yihao and Wang, Bingnan and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Nishimura, Yuki},
    • title = {Electric Motor Surrogate Model Combining Subdomain Method and Neural Network},
    • booktitle = {Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-041}
    • }
  •  Xu, Y., Wang, B., Sakamoto, Y., Yamamoto, T., Nishimura, Y., "Comparison of Learning-based Surrogate Models for Electric Motors", Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-042 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Xu2023may,
    • author = {Xu, Yihao and Wang, Bingnan and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Nishimura, Yuki},
    • title = {Comparison of Learning-based Surrogate Models for Electric Motors},
    • booktitle = {Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-042}
    • }
  •  Rosen, E., Jha, D.K., "A Virtual Reality Teleoperation Interface for Industrial Robot Manipulators", arXiv, May 2023.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Rosen2023may,
    • author = {Rosen, Eric and Jha, Devesh K.},
    • title = {A Virtual Reality Teleoperation Interface for Industrial Robot Manipulators},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10960}
    • }
  •  Anantaram, V., Goldsmith, A., Wang, Y., "Flying Start of Sensorless Synchronous Machines with Reactive Power Injection", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), DOI: 10.1109/​IEMDC55163.2023.10238966, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-037 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Anantaram2023may,
    • author = {Anantaram, Varatharajan and Goldsmith, Abraham and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {Flying Start of Sensorless Synchronous Machines with Reactive Power Injection},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/IEMDC55163.2023.10238966},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-9899-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-037}
    • }