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Biography

Uroš works on advancements in the theory of predictive control and constrained control, as well as its applications to the control of automotive and aerospace systems. His dissertation dealt with theoretical developments and practical applications of reference governors. Prior to joining MERL, Uroš interned at MERL and at Ford Motor Company.
Recent News & Events
- NEWS MERL researchers presented 8 papers at Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
  Date: December 11, 2019 - December 13, 2019
  Where: Nice, France
  MERL Contacts: Mouhacine Benosman; Karl Berntorp; Scott A. Bortoff; Ankush Chakrabarty; Stefano Di Cairano; Uroš Kalabić; Jing Zhang
  Research Areas: Control, Machine Learning, Optimization
  Brief
  - At the Conference on Decision and Control, MERL presented 8 papers on subjects including estimation for thermal-fluid models and transportation networks, analysis of HVAC systems, extremum seeking for multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning for vehicle platoons, and learning with applications to autonomous vehicles.
- NEWS Uros Kalabic spoke on reference governors at the MSU Mechanical Engineering Seminar
  Date: February 12, 2019
  Where: Michigan State University
  MERL Contacts: Scott A. Bortoff; Stefano Di Cairano; Abraham M. Goldsmith; Uroš Kalabić
  Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems
  Brief
  - Uros Kalabic, of MERL's Control and Dynamical Systems group, gave a talk at the Michigan State University Mechanical Engineering Seminar. The talk, entitled "Reference governors: Industrial applications and theoretical advances," covered some of the exciting research being done at MERL on reference governors and briefly described MERL's other research areas. The abstract of the talk can be found via the link below.
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MERL Publications
- Aguilar Marsillach, D., Di Cairano, S., Kalabic, U., Weiss, A., "Fail-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9483328, May 2021, pp. 2980-2985.
  BibTeX TR2021-054 PDF
  - @inproceedings{AguilarMarsillach2021may,
  - author = {Aguilar Marsillach, Daniel and Di Cairano, Stefano and Kalabic, Uros and Weiss, Avishai},
  - title = {Fail-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits},
  - booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
  - year = 2021,
  - pages = {2980--2985},
  - month = may,
  - publisher = {IEEE},
  - doi = {10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9483328},
  - issn = {2378-5861},
  - isbn = {978-1-6654-4197-1},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-054}
  - }
- Chiu, M., Goldsmith, A.M., Kalabic, U., "Blockchain for Embedded System Accountability", IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), DOI: 10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461143, May 2021.
  BibTeX TR2021-041 PDF
  - @inproceedings{Chiu2021may,
  - author = {Chiu, Michael and Goldsmith, Abraham M. and Kalabic, Uros},
  - title = {Blockchain for Embedded System Accountability},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)},
  - year = 2021,
  - month = may,
  - doi = {10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461143},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-041}
  - }
- Kalabic, U., Weiss, A., Chiu, M., "Orbit Verification of Small Sat Constellations", IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), DOI: 10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461065, May 2021.
  BibTeX TR2021-040 PDF
  - @inproceedings{Kalabic2021may,
  - author = {Kalabic, Uros and Weiss, Avishai and Chiu, Michael},
  - title = {Orbit Verification of Small Sat Constellations},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)},
  - year = 2021,
  - month = may,
  - doi = {10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461065},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-040}
  - }
- Kalabic, U., Weiss, A., Chiu, M., "Distributed Small Sat Location Verification", Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, DOI: 10.1109/ICNS52807.2021.9441603, April 2021.
  BibTeX TR2021-033 PDF
  - @inproceedings{Kalabic2021apr,
  - author = {Kalabic, Uros and Weiss, Avishai and Chiu, Michael},
  - title = {Distributed Small Sat Location Verification},
  - booktitle = {Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference},
  - year = 2021,
  - month = apr,
  - doi = {10.1109/ICNS52807.2021.9441603},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-033}
  - }
- Chiu, M., Kalabic, U., "Short Paper: Debt Representation in UTXO Blockchains", Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February 2021.
  BibTeX TR2021-014 PDF
  - @inproceedings{Chiu2021feb,
  - author = {Chiu, Michael and Kalabic, Uros},
  - title = {Short Paper: Debt Representation in UTXO Blockchains},
  - booktitle = {Financial Cryptography and Data Security},
  - year = 2021,
  - month = feb,
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-014}
  - }
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Other Publications
- U. V. Kalabic, I. V. Kolmanovsky and E. G. Gilbert, "Reduced order extended command governors", Automatica, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 1466-1472, 2014.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{kalabickolmano14,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. V. and Kolmanovsky, I. V. and Gilbert, E. G.},
  - title = {Reduced order extended command governors},
  - journal = {Automatica},
  - year = 2014,
  - volume = 50,
  - number = 5,
  - pages = {1466--1472}
  - }
- U. Kalabic and I. Kolmanovsky, "Reference and command governors for systems with slowly time-varying references and time-dependent constraints", Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 2014, pp. 6701-6706.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabickolmano_cdc14,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
  - title = {Reference and command governors for systems with slowly time-varying references and time-dependent constraints},
  - booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control},
  - year = 2014,
  - pages = {6701--6706},
  - address = {Los Angeles, CA},
  - month = {Dec.}
  - }
- Q. Li, U. V. Kalabic and I. V. Kolmanovsky, "Fast reference governors for second-order linear systems with constraints and an input time-delay", Automatica, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 641-645, 2014.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{likalabic14,
  - author = {Li, Q. and Kalabić, U. V. and Kolmanovsky, I. V.},
  - title = {Fast reference governors for second-order linear systems with constraints and an input time-delay},
  - journal = {Automatica},
  - year = 2014,
  - volume = 50,
  - number = 2,
  - pages = {641--645}
  - }
- Q. Li, U. Kalabic and I. Kolmanovsky, "Predictor-based reference governor for second-order linear constrained systems operated over a communication network", Proc. World Congress Intelligent Control Autom., Jun. 2014, pp. 1700-1704.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{likalabic_wcica14,
  - author = {Li, Q. and Kalabić, U. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
  - title = {Predictor-based reference governor for second-order linear constrained systems operated over a communication network},
  - booktitle = {Proc. World Congress Intelligent Control Autom.},
  - year = 2014,
  - pages = {1700--1704},
  - address = {Shenyang, China},
  - month = {Jun.}
  - }
- T. Poloni, U. Kalabic, K. McDonough and I. Kolmanovsky, "Disturbance canceling control based on simple input observers with constraint enforcement for aerospace applications", Proc. IEEE Conf. Control Applicat., Sep. 2014, pp. 158-165.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{polonikalabic_msc14,
  - author = {Poloni, T. and Kalabić, U. and McDonough, K. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
  - title = {Disturbance canceling control based on simple input observers with constraint enforcement for aerospace applications},
  - booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. Control Applicat.},
  - year = 2014,
  - pages = {158--165},
  - address = {Antibes, France},
  - month = {Sep.}
  - }
- M. J. Dillsaver, U. V. Kalabić, I. V. Kolmanovsky and C. E. S. Cesnik, "Constrained Control of very flexible aircraft using reference and extended command governors", Proc. American Control Conf., Jun. 2013, pp. 1608-1613.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{dillsavkalabic_acc13,
  - author = {Dillsaver, M. J. and Kalabić, U. V. and Kolmanovsky, I. V. and Cesnik, C. E. S.},
  - title = {Constrained Control of very flexible aircraft using reference and extended command governors},
  - booktitle = {Proc. American Control Conf.},
  - year = 2013,
  - pages = {1608--1613},
  - address = {Washington, DC},
  - month = {Jun.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic, Y. Chitalia, J. Buckland and I. Kolmanovsky, "Prioritization schemes for reference and command governors", Proc. European Control Conf., Jul. 2013, pp. 2734-2739.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabicchitali_ecc13,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Chitalia, Y. and Buckland, J. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
  - title = {Prioritization schemes for reference and command governors},
  - booktitle = {Proc. European Control Conf.},
  - year = 2013,
  - pages = {2734--2739},
  - address = {Zurich, Switzerland},
  - month = {Jul.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic and I. Kolmanovsky, "Decentralized constraint enforcement using reference governors", Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 2013, pp. 6415-6421.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabickolmano_cdc13,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
  - title = {Decentralized constraint enforcement using reference governors},
  - booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control},
  - year = 2013,
  - pages = {6415--6421},
  - address = {Florence, Italy},
  - month = {Dec.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic, I. Kolmaonvsky and J. Buckland, "Multi-input observer for estimation of compressor flow", Proc. ASME Dynamic Syst. Control Conf., Oct. 2013, pp. DSCC2013-3731.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabickolmano_dscc13,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Kolmaonvsky, I. and Buckland, J.},
  - title = {Multi-input observer for estimation of compressor flow},
  - booktitle = {Proc. ASME Dynamic Syst. Control Conf.},
  - year = 2013,
  - pages = {DSCC2013--3731},
  - address = {Palo Alto, CA},
  - month = {Oct.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic, C. Vermillion and I. Kolmanovsky, "Reference governor design for computationally efficient attitude and tether tension constraint enforcement on a lighter-than-air wind energy system", Proc. European Control Conf., Jul. 2013, pp. 1004-1010.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabicvermill_ecc13,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Vermillion, C. and Kolmanovsky, I.},
  - title = {Reference governor design for computationally efficient attitude and tether tension constraint enforcement on a lighter-than-air wind energy system},
  - booktitle = {Proc. European Control Conf.},
  - year = 2013,
  - pages = {1004--1010},
  - address = {Zurich, Switzerland},
  - month = {Jul.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic, I. Kolmanovsky, J. Buckland and E. Gilbert, "Reduced Order Reference Governor", Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 2012, pp. 3245-3251.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabickolmano_cdc12,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Buckland, J. and Gilbert, E.},
  - title = {Reduced Order Reference Governor},
  - booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control},
  - year = 2012,
  - pages = {3245--3251},
  - address = {Maui, HI},
  - month = {Dec.}
  - }
- I. Kolmanovsky, U. Kalabic and E. Gilbert, "Developments in constrained control using reference governors", Proc. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conf., Aug. 2012, pp. 282-290.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kolmanokalabic_nmpc12,
  - author = {Kolmanovsky, I. and Kalabić, U. and Gilbert, E.},
  - title = {Developments in constrained control using reference governors},
  - booktitle = {Proc. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conf.},
  - year = 2012,
  - pages = {282--290},
  - address = {Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands},
  - month = {Aug.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic, I. Kolmanovsky and E. Gilbert, "Reference Governors with Nonlinear Constraints", Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 2011, pp. 2680-2686.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabickolmano_cdc11,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Gilbert, E.},
  - title = {Reference Governors with Nonlinear Constraints},
  - booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control},
  - year = 2011,
  - pages = {2680--2686},
  - address = {Orlando, FL},
  - month = {Dec.}
  - }
- U. Kalabic, I. Kolmanovsky, J. Buckland and E. Gilbert, "Reference and extended command governors for control of turbocharged gasoline engines based on linear models", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Control Applicat., Sep. 2011, pp. 319-325.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{kalabickolmano_msc11,
  - author = {Kalabić, U. and Kolmanovsky, I. and Buckland, J. and Gilbert, E.},
  - title = {Reference and extended command governors for control of turbocharged gasoline engines based on linear models},
  - booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Control Applicat.},
  - year = 2011,
  - pages = {319--325},
  - address = {Denver, CO},
  - month = {Sep.}
  - }
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MERL Issued Patents
- Title: "System and Method for Asymmetric Traffic Control"
  Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Grover, Piyush; Nilsson, Nils Gustav
  Patent No.: 10,922,966
  Issue Date: Feb 16, 2021
- Title: "RECEDING HORIZON REFERENCE GOVERNOR"
  Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
  Patent No.: 10,860,002
  Issue Date: Dec 8, 2020
- Title: "Methods and Systems for Balanced Feasible and Stable Control"
  Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Di Cairano, Stefano
  Patent No.: 10,807,638
  Issue Date: Oct 20, 2020
- Title: "Systems and Methods for Intention-Based Steering of Vehicle"
  Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Berntorp, Karl; Di Cairano, Stefano
  Patent No.: 10,589,784
  Issue Date: Mar 17, 2020
- Title: "Vehicle Motion Control System and Method"
  Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Halder, Udit
  Patent No.: 10,409,283
  Issue Date: Sep 10, 2019
- Title: "System and Method for Controlling Redundant Actuators with Different Dynamics"
  Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano
  Patent No.: 10,324,446
  Issue Date: Jun 18, 2019
- Title: "Operation Aware Control of Processing Machine with Redundant Actuators"
  Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
  Patent No.: 10,216,168
  Issue Date: Feb 26, 2019
- Title: "System and Method for Controlling Motion of Vehicle"
  Inventors: Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros; Berntorp, Karl
  Patent No.: 9,915,948
  Issue Date: Mar 13, 2018
- Title: "Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft"
  Inventors: Weiss, Avishai; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
  Patent No.: 9,874,879
  Issue Date: Jan 23, 2018
- Title: "Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft"
  Inventors: Weiss, Avishai; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
  Patent No.: 9,764,858
  Issue Date: Sep 19, 2017
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