NEWS MERL researchers present 13 papers at ACC 2025

Date released: July 23, 2025

NEWS MERL researchers present 13 papers at ACC 2025
Date:

July 8, 2025 - July 10, 2025
Where:

Denver, USA
Description:

MERL researchers presented 13 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2025 in Denver, USA. The papers covered a wide range of topics including Bayesian optimization for personalized medicine, machine learning for battery performance in eVTOLs, model predictive control for space and building systems, process systems engineering for sustainability, GNSS-RTK optimization, convex set manipulation, PDE control, servo system modeling, battery fault diagnosis, truck fleet coordination, interactive motion planning, and satellite station keeping. Additionally, MERL researchers (Vedang Deshpande and Ankush Chakrabarty) organized an invited session on design and optimization of energy systems.

As a sponsor of the conference, MERL maintained a booth for open discussions with researchers and students, and hosted a special session to discuss highlights of MERL research and work philosophy.
External Link:

https://acc2025.a2c2.org/
MERL Contacts:
Research Areas:

Control, Dynamical Systems, Electric Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Robotics
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  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}
  }
  Zhang, X., Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., Basar, T., "Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
  BibTeX TR2025-105 PDF
  @inproceedings{Zhang2025jul,
  author = {Zhang, Xiangyuan and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Basar, Tamer},
  title = {{Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start}},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
  year = 2025,
  month = jul,
  url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-105}
  }
  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}
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  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}
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  Hu, Y., Di Cairano, S., Berntorp, K., "GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization with Adaptive Ambiguity Noise", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
  BibTeX TR2025-102 PDF
  @inproceedings{Hu2025jul,
  author = {Hu, Yingjie and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Berntorp, Karl},
  title = {{GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization with Adaptive Ambiguity Noise}},
  booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
  year = 2025,
  month = jul,
  url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-102}
  }
  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
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  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}
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  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}
  }