Vedang M. Deshpande

Vedang M. Deshpande
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  • Biography

    Vedang's research interests are in nonlinear and robust estimation and control of uncertain dynamic systems. His doctoral research focused on developing theoretical frameworks and algorithms for designing sparse sensing and actuation architectures with optimal instrument precisions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Vedang worked full-time in software verification and validation group at Honeywell Aerospace.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  NEWS    MERL researchers present 7 papers at CDC 2024
      Date: December 16, 2024 - December 19, 2024
      Where: Milan, Italy
      MERL Contacts: Ankush Chakrabarty; Vedang M. Deshpande; Stefano Di Cairano; Abraham P. Vinod; Avishai Weiss; Gordon Wichern
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Control, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Optimization, Robotics
      Brief
      • MERL researchers presented 7 papers at the recently concluded Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024 in Milan, Italy. The papers covered a wide range of topics including safety shielding for stochastic model predictive control, reinforcement learning using expert observations, physics-constrained meta learning for positioning, variational-Bayes Kalman filtering, Bayesian measurement masks for GNSS positioning, divert-feasible lunar landing, and centering and stochastic control using constrained zonotopes.

        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.

        In addition, Ankush Chakrabarty (Principal Research Scientist, Multiphysical Systems Team) was an invited speaker in the pre-conference Workshop on "Learning Dynamics From Data" where he gave a talk on few-shot meta-learning for black-box identification using data from similar systems.
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    •  NEWS    MERL researchers present 9 papers at ACC 2024
      Date: July 10, 2024 - July 12, 2024
      Where: Toronto, Canada
      MERL Contacts: Ankush Chakrabarty; Vedang M. Deshpande; Stefano Di Cairano; Christopher R. Laughman; Arvind Raghunathan; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang; Avishai Weiss
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Control, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Optimization, Robotics
      Brief
      • MERL researchers presented 9 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2024 in Toronto, Canada. The papers covered a wide range of topics including data-driven spatial monitoring using heterogenous robots, aircraft approach management near airports, computation fluid dynamics-based motion planning for drones facing winds, trajectory planning for coordinated monitoring using a team of drones and a ground carrier vehicle, ensemble Kalman smoothing-based model predictive control for motion planning for autonomous vehicles, system identification for Lithium-ion batteries, physics-constrained deep Kalman filters for vapor compression systems, switched reference governors for constrained systems, and distributed road-map monitoring using onboard sensors.

        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.

        In addition, Abraham Vinod served as a panelist at the Student Networking Event at the conference. The student networking event provides an opportunity for all interested students to network with professionals working in industry, academia, and national laboratories during a structured event, and encourages their continued participation as the future leaders in the field.
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  • MERL Publications

    •  Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Wang, Y., Mineyuki, T., Zhan, S., Tang, W.-T., Paulson, J.A., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., Laughman, C.R., "Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation", Building Simulation, April 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-043 PDF
      • @article{Chakrabarty2025apr,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Wang, Ye and Mineyuki, Takuma and Zhan, Sicheng and Tang, Wei-Ting and Paulson, Joel A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A. and Laughman, Christopher R.},
      • title = {{Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation}},
      • journal = {Building Simulation},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = apr,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-043}
      • }
    •  Chakrabarty, A., Wichern, G., Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., Berntorp, K., Laughman, C.R., "Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification", arXiv, January 2025.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @article{Chakrabarty2025jan,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Wichern, Gordon and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P. and Berntorp, Karl and Laughman, Christopher R.},
      • title = {{Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification}},
      • journal = {arXiv},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = jan,
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06167v1}
      • }
    •  Chakrabarty, A., Deshpande, V.M., Wichern, G., Berntorp, K., "Physics-Constrained Meta-Learning for Online Adaptation and Estimation in Positioning Applications", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), DOI: 10.1109/​CDC56724.2024.10886249, December 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-180 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2024dec,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Wichern, Gordon and Berntorp, Karl},
      • title = {{Physics-Constrained Meta-Learning for Online Adaptation and Estimation in Positioning Applications}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = dec,
      • doi = {10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886249},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-180}
      • }
    •  Bortoff, S.A., Laughman, C.R., Deshpande, V.M., Qiao, H., "Fluid Property Functions in Polar and Parabolic Coordinates", American Modelica Conference, October 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-144 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Bortoff2024oct,
      • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Laughman, Christopher R. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Qiao, Hongtao},
      • title = {{Fluid Property Functions in Polar and Parabolic Coordinates}},
      • booktitle = {American Modelica Conference},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = oct,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-144}
      • }
    •  Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Wang, Y., Paulson, J.A., Zhan, S., Laughman, C.R., "Assessing Building Control Performance Using Physics-Based Simulation Models and Deep Generative Networks", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024, DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA60707.2024.10666585, August 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-113 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2024aug,
      • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Wang, Ye and Paulson, Joel A. and Zhan, Sicheng and Laughman, Christopher R.},
      • title = {{Assessing Building Control Performance Using Physics-Based Simulation Models and Deep Generative Networks}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = aug,
      • doi = {10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666585},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-113}
      • }
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  • Other Publications

    •  Vedang M. Deshpande, Raktim Bhattacharya and Kamesh Subbarao, "Sensor Placement With Optimal Precision for Temperature Estimation of Battery Systems", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 6, pp. 1082-1087, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{deshpande2022battery,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Subbarao, Kamesh},
      • title = {Sensor Placement With Optimal Precision for Temperature Estimation of Battery Systems},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2022,
      • volume = 6,
      • pages = {1082--1087}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: An Integrated Framework for $H_2/H_infty$ Optimal Observer Design", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 481-486, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{deshpande2021h2hinf,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: An Integrated Framework for $\mathcal{H}_2/\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Optimal Observer Design},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 5,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {481--486}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing Architectures with Optimal Precision for Tracking Multi-agent Systems in Sensing-denied Environments", 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021, pp. 1571-1576.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2021multiAgent,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing Architectures with Optimal Precision for Tracking Multi-agent Systems in Sensing-denied Environments},
      • booktitle = {2021 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {1571--1576}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: Robust $H_infty$ Optimal Observer Design with Model Uncertainty", 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 2021, pp. 4105-4110.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2021robustHinf,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Sparse Sensing and Optimal Precision: Robust $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ Optimal Observer Design with Model Uncertainty},
      • booktitle = {2021 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {4105--4110}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande, Raktim Bhattacharya and Diego A. Donzis, "A unified framework to generate optimized compact finite difference schemes", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 432, pp. 110157, 2021.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{deshpande2021unified,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim and Donzis, Diego A.},
      • title = {A unified framework to generate optimized compact finite difference schemes},
      • journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 432,
      • pages = 110157,
      • url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999121000498}
      • }
    •  Sunsoo Kim, Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Robust Kalman Filtering With Probabilistic Uncertainty in System Parameters", IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 295-300, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{kim2021robustKalman,
      • author = {Kim, Sunsoo and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Robust Kalman Filtering With Probabilistic Uncertainty in System Parameters},
      • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 5,
      • number = 1,
      • pages = {295--300}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Surrogate Modeling of Dynamics From Sparse Data Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions", 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 2020, pp. 4046-4051.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{deshpande2020maxent,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Surrogate Modeling of Dynamics From Sparse Data Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions},
      • booktitle = {2020 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {4046--4051}
      • }
    •  Vedang M. Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Data-driven Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 7234-7239, 2020.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{deshpande2020maxentSDE,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Data-driven Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations Using Maximum Entropy Basis Functions},
      • journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
      • year = 2020,
      • volume = 53,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {7234--7239},
      • note = {21st IFAC World Congress},
      • url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896320308557}
      • }
    •  Vedang Deshpande, Niladri Das, Vaishnav Tadiparthi and Raktim Bhattacharya, "On Neural Network Training from Noisy Data using a Novel Filtering Framework", 2020, AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inbook{deshpande2020neural,
      • author = {Deshpande, Vedang and Das, Niladri and Tadiparthi, Vaishnav and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {On Neural Network Training from Noisy Data using a Novel Filtering Framework},
      • booktitle = {AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum},
      • year = 2020,
      • url = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2020-1869}
      • }
    •  Sunsoo Kim, Vedang Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "$H_2$ Optimized PID Control of Quad-Copter Platform with Wind Disturbance", 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, pp. 839-844.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{kim2020h2pid,
      • author = {Kim, Sunsoo and Deshpande, Vedang and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {$\mathcal{H}_{2}$ Optimized PID Control of Quad-Copter Platform with Wind Disturbance},
      • booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {839--844}
      • }
    •  Niladri Das, Vedang Deshpande and Raktim Bhattacharya, "Optimal-Transport-Based Tracking of Space Objects Using Range Data from a Single Ranging Station", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1237-1249, 2019.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{das2019otTracking,
      • author = {Das, Niladri and Deshpande, Vedang and Bhattacharya, Raktim},
      • title = {Optimal-Transport-Based Tracking of Space Objects Using Range Data from a Single Ranging Station},
      • journal = {Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
      • year = 2019,
      • volume = 42,
      • number = 6,
      • pages = {1237--1249},
      • url = {https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G003796}
      • }