inControl
The first podcast on control theory.
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Episodes
31 episodes
ep31 - Miroslav Krstić: nonlinear adaptive control, PDEs, delays, extremum seeking, safety, neural operators for control
Outline00:00 - Intro01:07 - Early steps02:47 - Why control?05:20 - The move to the US07:40 - The first journal paper13:30 - What is backstepping?17:08 - Grad school25:10 - Stochastic stabilization29:53...
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Episode 4
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2:02:44
ep30 - Manfred Morari: A pioneer’s journey through robust, predictive and computational control
Outline00:00 - Intro03:26 - Development: ETH Zürich07:15 - Growth: Minnesota and Wisconsin36:16 - Productivity: Caltech53:28 - Change: ETH Zürich01:37:18 - Continuity: University of Pennsylvania01:45:36 - Outr...
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Episode 3
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1:46:16
ep29 - Richard Bellman: The Father of Dynamic Programming
Outline 00:00 - Intro02:42 - Early life10:24 - WWII, Johns Hopkins, Belleville, Madison 17:17 - Princeton 20:30 - Los Alamos24:12 - Back to Princeton31:01 - RAND + Stanford 42:10 - Dynamic programming4...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:29:40
ep28 - Karl Henrik Johansson: Semper in Motu - Hybrid Systems, Wireless and Event-Based Control, Mobility, Cybersecurity, and Societal Challenges
Outline00:00 Intro01:19 Swedish control heritage and early steps05:21 PhD at Lund and relay feedback systems15:40 Berkeley years19:58 Hybrid systems26:46 Networked control systems30:32 Interaction with industr...
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Episode 2
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1:29:05
ep27 - Munther Dahleh: L1 control, agile robotic maneuvering, abstractions, cascaded failures, markets, data and systems for societal problems
Outline00:00 - Intro02:14 - Early steps in control05:36 - L1 control17:09 - Relay feedback systems24:32 - Agile robotic maneuvers29:31 - Abstractions and models41:59 - Causality49:35 - Markets and power gr...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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2:04:30
ep26 - Bart De Moor: subspace identification, linear & multilinear algebra, quantum information, ML
Outline00:00 - Intro00:49 - Early education and PhD in control10:35 - Non-negative linear algebra & modelling uncertainty principle22:50 - Influence of Willems & the Frisch scheme34:27 - Subspace identificatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:57:10
ep25 - Francesco Bullo: Geometric control, robotic networks, networked systems, mathematical sociology, contraction theory
Outline01:16 - Intro02:28 - Early steps in Italy and California13:00 - From Riemannian geometry …17:01 - … to geometric control, robotics and locomotion34:54 - Academic environment at Caltech35:06 - From single ro...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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2:08:45
ep24 - Brian Douglas: Boeing, Control Videos, Resourcium, Map of Control Theory, Cartoons, Mathworks
Outline00:00 - Intro01:00 - From Boeing to Planetary Resources08:57 - The origin of control videos17:07 - About teaching style20:52 - The (unnecessary?) math behind controls26:54 - On interdisciplinarity31:35 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:46:24
ep23 - Bassam Bamieh: Sampled Data Systems, PDEs, Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems, Coherence, Resistive Losses, Cochlear Instabilities, and Stochasticity in Feedback Loops
Outline00:00 - Intro01:17 - Early Years04:17 - The “Scenic Route” to Control Theory12:44 - Sampled Data Systems22:26 - Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) Identification28:07 - From Distributed Systems and PDEs ......
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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2:23:12
ep22 - Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Part II: Cyberphysical and hybrid systems, Contracts, Chiplets, Models of computation, Time, Innovative Ecosystems, BioBricks, Neuromorphics
Outline00:00 - Intro01:28 - Platform-based design (PBD) in biology16:42 - Cyberphysical systems, automotive industry, hybrid systems27:32 - Contracts in system design34:50 - Chiplets41:48 - About time:...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:20:16
ep21 - Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Part I: Classics, EDA, Logic Synthesis, SPICE, Intel x386, Cadence, Synopsis, Platform-based design
Outline00:00 - Intro02:40 - Classic Studies06:51 - Early Steps in Berkeley between Optimization and Circuits Theory16:04 - Back to Italy... and back to Berkeley26:29 - The SPICE program and the interaction with IBM
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:47:23
ep20 - Aude Billard: From Robot learning to Dexterous Manipulation and Human-Robot Interaction
Outline00:00 - Intro00:58 - Early steps… in physics!05:17 - AI in Edinburgh08:00 - Connectionism10:37 - Robot learning19:02 - Imitation learning23:00 - On pursuing a PhD24:45 - Californian chronicles30...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:07:57
ep19 - Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Part II: Unveiling the Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making from Flocking Starlings to Desert Ants, Political Polarization, and the Creative Dance Between Arts and Control Theory
Outline00:00 - Intro01:33 - Starling Flock Formations07:17 - Harvesters ants in the desert16:54 - Decision making in the natural world and opinion dynamics 32:08 - A geometric look at political polarization36...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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57:44
ep18 - Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Part I: Geometric Control on Lie Groups, Underwater Vehicles and Collective Motion, Coordination in Animal Groups, Decision Making in Honeybees and Bifurcation Theory
Outline00:00 - Intro01:05 - Dancing and control theory03:31 - Geometric control on Lie groups09:14 - Underwater vehicles and geometric mechanics18:45 - On the Hamiltonian framework21:25 - Underwater field experime...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:07:16
ep17 - Tryphon Georgiou, Part II: Power spectra, optimal mass transport, Wasserstein geometry, turbulence, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, adjustable one-ports
Outline00:00 - Intro00:47 - Mind the gap (metric)03:16 - Moment problems and Nevanlinna interpolation06:53 - “Everything relates to everything else”11:27 - Distances between power spectra 16:08 - Optimal mass...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:13:01
ep16 - Tryphon Georgiou, Part I: Marathons, Interpolation problems, Metrics, and the Arrow of Time
Outline00:00 - Intro01:50 - Running marathons 05:19 - The Center13:28 - On creativity15:24 - From algebraic system theory to moment problems43:39 - The gap metric58:33 - The longstanding friendship and co...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:25:54
ep15 - Davide Scaramuzza: Vision-Based Navigation, Agile Drone Racing, Perception-Aware Control, and Event Cameras
In this episode, we dive into the world of flying robots with Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zürich), a leading expert in vision-based navigation, agile drone racing, perception-aware control, and the cutting-edge neuromorphic technology of e...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:33:47
ep14 - Cleve Moler: Numerical Analyst, First MATLAB Programmer, and MathWorks Co-Founder
In this episode, we chat with Cleve Moler, a pioneer in numerical mathematics, creator of MATLAB and co-founder of MathWorks. We cover the birth of MATLAB, along with captivating stories about the origin of the iconic MathWorks logo, the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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52:37
ep13 - John Doyle, Part II: Architectures, Universal laws, Layers, Levels, and Diversity-enabled Sweet Spots
In this episode, we chat again with John Doyle about the frontiers of control theory. Starting from the fascinating interplay between bacteria, physics, and the Internet, we explore the universal laws that govern complex systems. We discuss the...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:46:38
ep12 - John Doyle, Part I: A Pioneer's Guide to Robust Control - The Past, Present, and Future
In this episode, we sit down with John Doyle, a living legend in the field of robust control, to delve into his incredible journey in control theory. We explore his past at MIT and Honeywell, his time at Berkeley, and his journey through the go...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:16:03
ep11 - Mustafa Khammash: Cybergenetics
In this episode, our guest is Mustafa Khammash. Mustafa is the director of the Control Theory and Systems Biology Lab at ETH Zürich and guides us in this episode as we explore Cybergenetics - the cutting-edge intersection of control theory and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:20:40
ep10 - Stephen Boyd: Linear Matrix Inequalities, Convex Optimization, Disciplined Convex Programming, Rock & Roll
In this episode, our guest is Stephen Boyd. Stephen is the Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Join as we dive deep into control, convex optimization, linear matrix inequalities, disciplined convex progr...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:20:59
ep9 - Rodolphe Sepulchre: Spiking control systems, nonlinear control, neuroscience and optimization on manifolds
Our guest in this episode is Rodolphe Sepulchre, Professor of Engineering at KU Leuven in the Deparment of Electrical Engineering (STADIUS) and at the University of Cambridge in the Deparment of En...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:24:04
ep8 - Anuradha Annaswamy: Adaptive Control - From the "Brave Era" to Reinforcement Learning and Back
In this episode, our guest is Anuradha Annaswamy. Anu is the Director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and Senior Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:04:04
ep7 - Jean-Jacques Slotine: Sliding, nonlinear and adaptive control, contraction theory, complex networks, optimization, and machine learning
In this episode, our guest is Jean-Jacques Slotine, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences as well as Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory at ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:10:57