Multi-Physical Modeling
Optimal design & robust control through multi-physical modeling.
Our work involves the development of state-of-art modeling and simulation tools for complex, heterogeneous systems. We apply these models for the optimal design and robust control of a variety of systems including HVAC systems, zero-energy buildings, automobiles, and robotic systems.
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NEWS Ankush Chakrabarty gave an invited talk at University of Illinois at Chicago Date: April 9, 2021
MERL Contact: Ankush Chakrabarty
Research Areas: Control, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, OptimizationBrief- Ankush Chakrabarty, a Research Scientist at MERL's Multiphysical Systems (MS) Team, gave an invited talk on "Learning for Control and Estimation using Digital Twins" at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Series organized at UIC. The talk proposed new learning-based control/estimation architectures that can utilize simulation data obtained from digital twins to add self-optimization and constraint-enforcement features to grey/black-box control systems.
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EVENT MERL Virtual Open House 2020 Date & Time: Wednesday, December 9, 2020; 1:00-5:00PM EST
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Jeroen van Baar; Anthony Vetro
Location: Virtual
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Control, Data Analytics, Dynamical Systems, Electric Systems, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Optimization, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL will host a virtual open house on December 9, 2020. Live sessions will be held from 1-5pm EST, including an overview of recent activities by our research groups and a talk by Prof. Pierre Moulin of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on adversarial machine learning. Registered attendees will also be able to browse our virtual booths at their convenience and connect with our research staff on engagement opportunities including internship, post-doc and research scientist openings, as well as visiting faculty positions.
Registration: https://mailchi.mp/merl/merl-virtual-open-house-2020
Schedule: https://www.merl.com/events/voh20
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- MERL will host a virtual open house on December 9, 2020. Live sessions will be held from 1-5pm EST, including an overview of recent activities by our research groups and a talk by Prof. Pierre Moulin of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on adversarial machine learning. Registered attendees will also be able to browse our virtual booths at their convenience and connect with our research staff on engagement opportunities including internship, post-doc and research scientist openings, as well as visiting faculty positions.
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MD1381: Electric Motor Design
MERL is seeking a motivated and qualified individual to conduct research in design, modeling, and simulation of electrical machines. The ideal candidate should have solid backgrounds in modeling (including model reduction)/co-simulation of electromagnetics and thermal dynamics of electrical machines, and demonstrated capability to publish results in leading conferences/journals. Experience with ANSYS, COMSOL, and real-time control experiments involving motor drives is a strong plus. Senior Ph.D. students in electrical or mechanical engineering are encouraged to apply. Start date for this internship is flexible and the duration is about 3-6 months.
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Recent Publications
- , "Accelerating Simulation of Stiff Nonlinear Systems using Continuous-Time Echo State Networks", AAAI Spring Symposium on Combining Artificial Intelligence with Physical Sciences, March 2021.BibTeX TR2021-021 PDF
- @inproceedings{Anantharaman2021mar,
- author = {Anantharaman, Ranjan and Ma, Yingbo and Gowda, Shashi and Laughman, Christopher R. and Shah, Viral and Edelman, Alan and Rackauckas, Chris},
- title = {Accelerating Simulation of Stiff Nonlinear Systems using Continuous-Time Echo State Networks},
- booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium on Combining Artificial Intelligence with Physical Sciences},
- year = 2021,
- month = mar,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-021}
- }
- , "Modelica-Based Control of A Delta Robot", ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DOI: doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3158, December 2020.BibTeX TR2020-154 PDF
- @inproceedings{Bortoff2020dec,
- author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Okasha, Ahmed},
- title = {Modelica-Based Control of A Delta Robot},
- booktitle = {ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference},
- year = 2020,
- month = dec,
- doi = {doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3158},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-154}
- }
- , "Accelerating Simulation of Stiff Nonlinear Systems using Continuous-Time Echo State Networks", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2020.BibTeX TR2020-169 PDF
- @inproceedings{Anantharaman2020dec,
- author = {Anantharaman, Ranjan and Ma, Yingbo and Gowda, Shashi and Laughman, Christopher R. and Shah, Viral and Edelman, Alan and Rackauckas, Chris},
- title = {Accelerating Simulation of Stiff Nonlinear Systems using Continuous-Time Echo State Networks},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
- year = 2020,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-169}
- }
- , "End-to-End Deep Learning for Phase Noise-Robust Multi-Dimensional Geometric Shaping", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), November 2020.BibTeX TR2020-155 PDF Video
- @inproceedings{Talreja2020nov,
- author = {Talreja, Veeru and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Millar, David S. and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {End-to-End Deep Learning for Phase Noise-Robust Multi-Dimensional Geometric Shaping},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
- year = 2020,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-155}
- }
- , "Semi-Analytical Modeling for Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Considering Permeability of Rotor Core", International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), DOI: 10.23919/ICEMS50442.2020.9291153, November 2020, pp. 19-22.BibTeX TR2020-149 PDF
- @inproceedings{Shin2020nov,
- author = {Shin, Kyung-Hun and Wang, Bingnan},
- title = {Semi-Analytical Modeling for Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Considering Permeability of Rotor Core},
- booktitle = {2020 23rd International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {19--22},
- month = nov,
- doi = {10.23919/ICEMS50442.2020.9291153},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-149}
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- , "Few-Shot Bearing Anomaly Detection via Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning", International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), DOI: 10.23919/ICEMS50442.2020.9291099, November 2020, pp. 1341-1346.BibTeX TR2020-151 PDF
- @inproceedings{Zhang2020nov2,
- author = {Zhang, Shen and Ye, Fei and Wang, Bingnan and Habetler, Thomas G},
- title = {Few-Shot Bearing Anomaly Detection via Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning},
- booktitle = {2020 23rd International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {1341--1346},
- month = nov,
- doi = {10.23919/ICEMS50442.2020.9291099},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-151}
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- , "Contactless Eddy Current Sensing for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Defect Detection", Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), November 2020.BibTeX TR2020-148 PDF
- @inproceedings{Wang2020nov2,
- author = {Wang, Bingnan and Hotta, Akira},
- title = {Contactless Eddy Current Sensing for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Defect Detection},
- booktitle = {Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC)},
- year = 2020,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-148}
- }
- , "Artificial Intelligence-Based Distributed Belief Propagation and Recurrent Neural Network Algorithm for Wide-Area Monitoring Systems", IEEE Network, DOI: 10.1109/MNET.011.1900322, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 64-72, May 2020.BibTeX TR2020-058 PDF
- @article{Bhamidipati2020may,
- author = {Bhamidipati, Sriramya and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Sun, Hongbo and Orlik, Philip V.},
- title = {Artificial Intelligence-Based Distributed Belief Propagation and Recurrent Neural Network Algorithm for Wide-Area Monitoring Systems},
- journal = {IEEE Network},
- year = 2020,
- volume = 34,
- number = 3,
- pages = {64--72},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/MNET.011.1900322},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-058}
- }
- , "Accelerating Simulation of Stiff Nonlinear Systems using Continuous-Time Echo State Networks", AAAI Spring Symposium on Combining Artificial Intelligence with Physical Sciences, March 2021.
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