Publications

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  •  Elango, P., Vinod, A.P., Kitamura, K., Acikmese, B., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Continuous-Time Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit", AIAA SciTech Forum 2026, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-016 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Elango2026jan,
    • author = {Elango, Purnanand and Vinod, Abraham P. and Kitamura, Kenji and Acikmese, Behcet and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Continuous-Time Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit}},
    • booktitle = {AIAA SciTech Forum 2026},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jan,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-016}
    • }
  •  Kamath, A., Vinod, A.P., Elango, P., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Robust Optimal Control for Autonomous Precision Landing via Set-based Dynamic Programming", AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-015 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kamath2026jan,
    • author = {Kamath, Abhinav and Vinod, Abraham P. and Elango, Purnanand and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Robust Optimal Control for Autonomous Precision Landing via Set-based Dynamic Programming}},
    • booktitle = {AIAA SciTech Forum},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jan,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-015}
    • }
  •  Kento, T., Elango, P., Vinod, A.P., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Powered Descent Decision Making: A Reachability-Steering Approach", AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-014 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kento2026jan,
    • author = {Kento, Tomita and Elango, Purnanand and Vinod, Abraham P. and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Powered Descent Decision Making: A Reachability-Steering Approach}},
    • booktitle = {AIAA SciTech Forum},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jan,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-014}
    • }
  •  Castroviejo-Fernandez, M., Leung, J., "Relaxed barrier function based model predictive control with hard input constraints", IEEE Control Systems Letters, December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-005 PDF
    • @article{Castroviejo-Fernandez2025dec,
    • author = {Castroviejo-Fernandez, Miguel and Leung, Jordan},
    • title = {{Relaxed barrier function based model predictive control with hard input constraints}},
    • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-005}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Vinod, A.P., Kamath, A., Weiss, A., Di Cairano, S., "Set-based lossless convexification for a class of robust nonlinear optimal control problems", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-160 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Vinod2025dec,
    • author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Kamath, Abhinav and Weiss, Avishai and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Set-based lossless convexification for a class of robust nonlinear optimal control problems}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-160}
    • }
  •  Hutchinson, S., Vinod, A.P., Germain, F.G., Di Cairano, S., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Quantile-SMPC for Grid-Interactive Buildings with Multivariate Temporal Fusion Transformers", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on UrbanAI, December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-001 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hutchinson2025dec,
    • author = {{{Hutchinson, Spencer and Vinod, Abraham P. and Germain, François G and Di Cairano, Stefano and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush}}},
    • title = {{{Quantile-SMPC for Grid-Interactive Buildings with Multivariate Temporal Fusion Transformers}}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on UrbanAI},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-001}
    • }
  •  Zhang, R., Raghunathan, A., Shamma, J., Li, N., "Constrained Optimization From a Control Perspective via Feedback Linearization", The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NuerIPS), December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-165 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025dec,
    • author = {Zhang, Runyu and Raghunathan, Arvind and Shamma, Jeff and Li, Na},
    • title = {{Constrained Optimization From a Control Perspective via Feedback Linearization}},
    • booktitle = {The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NuerIPS)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-165}
    • }
  •  Lin, C., Ding, Q., Ma, Y., "Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing", Physical Review, DOI: 10.1103/​1nsd-2574, Vol. 112, pp. 052608, November 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-161 PDF
    • @article{Lin2025nov,
    • author = {Lin, Chungwei and Ding, Qi (Andy) and Ma, Yanting},
    • title = {{Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing}},
    • journal = {Physical Review},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 112,
    • pages = 052608,
    • month = nov,
    • doi = {10.1103/1nsd-2574},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-161}
    • }
  •  Shimane, Y., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Optimization-Based Phase-Constrained x-Axis Crossing Control for Station-Keeping on Libration Point Orbits", Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/​s40295-025-00543-1, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 59, November 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-004 PDF
    • @article{Shimane2025dec3,
    • author = {Shimane, Yuri and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Optimization-Based Phase-Constrained x-Axis Crossing Control for Station-Keeping on Libration Point Orbits}},
    • journal = {Journal of the Astronautical Sciences},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 72,
    • number = 6,
    • pages = 59,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1007/s40295-025-00543-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-004}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Shimane, Y., Di Cairano, S., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Revolution-Spaced Output-Feedback Model Predictive Control for Station Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/​TCST.2025.3614324, October 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-003 PDF
    • @article{Shimane2025dec2,
    • author = {Shimane, Yuri and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Revolution-Spaced Output-Feedback Model Predictive Control for Station Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/TCST.2025.3614324},
    • issn = {1063-6536},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-003}
    • }
  •  Tang, W.-T., Vinod, A.P., Germain, F.G., Paulson, J.A., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "AI-Driven Scenario Discovery: Diffusion Models and Multi-Armed Bandits for Building Control Validation", Energy and Buildings, DOI: 10.1016/​j.enbuild.2025.116207, September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-132 PDF
    • @article{Tang2025sep,
    • author = {Tang, Wei-Ting and Vinod, Abraham P. and Germain, François G and Paulson, Joel A. and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{AI-Driven Scenario Discovery: Diffusion Models and Multi-Armed Bandits for Building Control Validation}},
    • journal = {Energy and Buildings},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116207},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-132}
    • }
  •  Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Laughman, C.R., Qiao, H., "A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles", International Modelica Conference, September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-135 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025sep,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Laughman, Christopher R. and Qiao, Hongtao},
    • title = {{A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles}},
    • booktitle = {International Modelica Conference},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-135}
    • }
  •  Bortoff, S.A., Tsuji, K., "Robust Unfalsified Control of a Heat Pump", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-128 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025aug,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Tsuji, Kosei},
    • title = {{Robust Unfalsified Control of a Heat Pump}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-128}
    • }
  •  Lu, Z., Tu, H., Fang, H., Wang, Y., Mou, S., "A Real-time High C-rate Lithium-ion Battery Fast Charging Strategy", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA53793.2025.11151417, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-127 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lu2025aug,
    • author = {Lu, Zehui and Tu, Hao and Fang, Huazhen and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai},
    • title = {{A Real-time High C-rate Lithium-ion Battery Fast Charging Strategy}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151417},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-127}
    • }
  •  Hu, Y., Di Cairano, S., Berntorp, K., "Optimal Measurement Projection in GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA53793.2025.11151373, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-118 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hu2025aug,
    • author = {Hu, Yingjie and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{Optimal Measurement Projection in GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151373},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-118}
    • }
  •  Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., "Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA53793.2025.11151521, August 2025, pp. 673-680.
    BibTeX TR2025-117 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Deshpande2025aug,
    • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P.},
    • title = {{Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies}},
    • booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {673--680},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151521},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-117}
    • }
  •  Zhang, Q., Avraamidou, S., Paulson, J.A., Thakkar, V., Wang, Z., Chiang, L., Braun, B., Rathi, T., Chakrabarty, A., Sorouifar, F., Tang, W.-T., Guertin, F., Munoz, P., Sampat, A., "Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC63710.2025.11107561, July 2025.
    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,
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107561},
    • 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), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC63710.2025.11107977, July 2025, pp. 3539-3544.
    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,
    • pages = {3539--3544},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107977},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-105}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Hu, Y., Di Cairano, S., Berntorp, K., "GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization with Adaptive Ambiguity Noise", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC63710.2025.11107797, 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,
    • doi = {10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107797},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-102}
    • }