inControl
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Latest Episodes
ep49 - inControl @ IFAC 2026 - M. Vidyasagar, H. Khalil, S. Boyd - So you want to write a classic?
Outline00:00 - Intro02:30 - Did anyone know they were writing a classic?11:07 - When course notes become a textbook15:36 - Who is the reader? Monographs written for future researchers20:23 - Students or professors? "S...
ep48 - Romeo Ortega: From sliding modes to adaptive, passivity-based and energy-shaping control
Outline00:00 - Intro01:31 - Mexico City to Leningrad: a communist girlfriend, and a year of Russian05:40 - Sliding modes at the source10:38 - France: Ioan Landau, Laurent Praly, and dynamic normalization16:25 - Contin...
ep47 - Tore Hägglund and José Luis Guzman: the art of PID control
Outline00:00 - Intro08:35 - What is PID control?12:15 - The history: Minorsky, 1922, and steering ships21:00 - The lambda method, IMC, and analytical tuning28:45 - Set-point weighting and two degrees of freedom32:...
ep46 - The fall of LTCM: Bachelier, Merton, and Black–Scholes ... when stochastic control met Wall Street
Outline00:00 - Intro02:25 - Bachelier and the Théorie de la Spéculation03:05 - Stochastic processes, Brownian motion, and the heat equation09:45 - Poincaré's verdict, obscurity, and rediscovery13:50 - Robert C. Merton...
ep45 - Peter Caines: from stochastic and adaptive control to mean field games, graphons, and beyond!
Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - London in the 1960s12:40 - From Oxford to Imperial College: David Mayne and the discrete-time Riccati equation 18:05 - The "global tour": Montenegro roads, hitch-hiking to Istanbul, and the S...