Coffee and Control

In this bonus episode I explore the work of ten fascinating researchers that I met at the Meet the Faculty Candidates poster session at CDC last month. We cover a wide array of different areas, including data-driven methods, fault-tolerant control, biological systems, PDEs, distributed estimation and a whole lot more!

Correction: At ~5:20 I mention that Anju was able to characterize the strategies of the two communicating entities at the Nash equilibrium - In actual fact this is a Stackelberg equilibrium (Stackelberg games involve players acting sequentially, taking either a leader or follower role)

You can view the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tf4ORHPI5Thbs-nA9DQTSu87TKbYni9JJN2UXqn5kU/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

Links and references

Amy Strong: https://bridgeman.pratt.duke.edu/people/amy-strong

Paper on data-driven invariance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19231

Anju Anand: https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/anjuanand

Strategic quantisation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10960399

Incorporating privacy into the objective: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06321

Brian Block: https://mae.osu.edu/people/block.168

Control of PDE traffic flow: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04823

Declan Jagt: https://search.asu.edu/profile/3729730

Stability analysis of coupled multivariate PDEs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14840

Scalar quadratic PDEs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10384073

PIETOOLS software: https://control.asu.edu/pietools/pietools

Hamza El-Kebir: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamza-el-kebir/

Control authority degradation paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10354437

Sensor and actuator degradation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10521243

Electrosurgery paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article/21/210/20230420/90578/Heat-conduction-in-live-tissue-during

Electrostatic signed distance functions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12554

Kirill Sechkar: https://engbio.ox.ac.uk/people/kirill-sechkar

Control of genetic circuits paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646303v2.full.pdf

Nick Marios Kokolakis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-marios-t-kokolakis-44717b164/

Pre-defined time RL paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005109825003152

 Parth Paritosh: https://pptx.github.io/pparitosh/Estimating a subset of variables: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01227

Privacy preserving paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11073227

Radoslaw Patelski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radoslaw-patelski/?originalSubdomain=pl

Observers for hovercraft: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9874346

ADRC with parameter identification: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10345678

ADRC with adaptive input gain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019057825001089

Carmen Amo Alonso: https://camoalon.github.io/

Research overview: https://camoalon.github.io/research/

Comparing mixer blocks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15731

Intro to state space models in deep learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.16899

Combining generative AI with control in robotics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.10762

In this episode I bring my microphones with me to the conference of decision and control (CDC) where I talk to a load of interesting researchers about their recent work. Featuring discussion of a wide range of different topics, including reinforcement learning, control architecture, game theory, AI-human interaction, event-triggered control and a whole lot more!

You can view the episode transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h6PdTd9xLTcJOGPx6TIkXOKPz_NGoS9_sA8CUvoZlx8/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

CDC web-page: https://cdc2025.ieeecss.org/

Female influencers in control: https://www.control.lth.se/external-engagement/female-influencers-in-automatic-control/

Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7VtNHI6bG8UBEoSGiAuVXNsmXSHlw8xG0LuMon2DVd0Pv0A/viewform

inControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/18361436-ep39-female-influencers-in-control

Alessandro Abate: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/alessandro.abate/

Maegan Tucker: https://maegantucker.com/

Joe Moeller: https://joe-moeller.com/

Category theory blog: https://joe-moeller.com/hi/

Rodolphe Sepulchre: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rs771

inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/9HLW37

Spiking control of a snake: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02968

Neuromorphic architecture: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.11924

Raj Velichete: https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/grad-students/rkv4

Vijeth Hebber: https://www.vijethhebbar.com/

John Doyle: https://www.eas.caltech.edu/people/doyle

InControl episodes: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/yx0IF5https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/qtk0Le

Dimos Dimarogonas: https://people.kth.se/~dimos/

Plenary on formal verification for multi-agent systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C3GSgVmxdo&t=1327s

Attacks on controlling multi-agent systems: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11036540

ESC inspired by insect flapping: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11006034

My CDC paper: https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/files/315205732/CDC2025_2_.pdf

Jorge Poveda: https://poveda.ucsd.edu/

Victoria Grushkovskaya: https://grushkovska.science/

Higher-order Lie bracket extremum-seeking: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07092 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01136

Azu Ozdaglar: https://asu.mit.edu/

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DR37zdEKPw

Matt Turner: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5y5nkg/professor-matthew-turner

Matt Turner episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KLLOvbCjOkL0v8iXo84vt

Kemin Zhou: https://www.ece.lsu.edu/kemin/

Multiobjective complementary control: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/document/10767397

Yujun Huang: https://zardini.mit.edu/people/yujun-huang/

Tyler Hanks: https://gataslab.org/members/tylerhanks
NextCom: https://sites.google.com/view/css-nextcom

NextCom podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7exZHRwVazI8AaHtiSMmE8

Csaba Szepesvari: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/

Friday plenary talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2IrHyuSjU

Fengyu Yue: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fengyu-yue-8849a6314/?originalSubdomain=il

Pio Ong: https://pioong.github.io/

Jacqueline Scherpen: https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.m.a.scherpen/?lang=en

Bode lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2IrHyuSjU  (Skip to 4:52:46)

Alberto Padoan episode on model order reduction: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kwlnlQqtID1naRcyLL12O

Meggie Maschner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meggie-marschner-445634236/?originalSubdomain=de

Brooks Butler: https://sites.google.com/view/brooks-butler

Mauro Salazar: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/mauro-salazar

Design of smart cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2IrHyuSjU  (Skip to 8:32:49)

In this episode I talk to some wonderful members of IEEEcontrol systems society (CSS) NextCom committee about their work fostering inclusivity and belonging within CSS, as well as empowering the next generation of leaders within control. We also cover how you can be a part of this!

You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/186arBxVLdcpHUCT9djgXQ7IMVvX5SLsMk0LmnzOLbRY/edit?usp=sharing

Fill in this leadership interest survey if you’d like to getinvolved:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-9qK13qYOSylyo-L-s8LvIYjd9bUmWlpd7zj2C7cxDASK-Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=113511961640315346198

Slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/next-comworkspace/shared_invite/zt-3kz84ooc6-iLeTIhTKs5oMwJ8ccjTZxw(This link will time-out after a little while – if you find it’s not working you can contract me or one of the other committee members and we can add you directly!)

Links and references

NextCom webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/css-nextcom

Brooks Butler: https://sites.google.com/view/brooks-butler

Email: [email protected]

Anastasia Bizyaeva: https://anastasiabzv.github.io/

Email: [email protected]

Phil E Paré: https://sites.google.com/view/philpare

Umar Niazi: https://sites.google.com/view/umarniazi/

Urmee Maitra: https://urmeemaitra.github.io/

Carina Veil: https://profiles.stanford.edu/carina-veil

Pio Ong: https://pioong.github.io/

Leonardo Toso: https://leotoso.github.io/

ECC episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PAlFzgSoLM6andaXEWB8e

This month I got to interview Sophie Schirmer about herfascinating work on quantum control, including notions such as controllability and realisability, different types of quantum states (including pure, mixed, and dark states), comparison between different approaches to optimisation, and the quantum phenomena inside MRI scanners!

You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0TFtckp7zEKCG0wdMHY0nySptrzbkV9ohQExa6ykGg/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

References

Sophie’s thesis: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/63c4205b-9a0d-4622-833f-377f975c8cb3

Herschel Rabitz papers: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/334/1/160/783416/Control-of-quantum-dynamics-The-dream-is-alive?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.259.5101.1581

Control paradigms for quantum engineering: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2890

Energy landscape shaping as feedback control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8119551

Kinematic bounds paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.58.2684

Dynamic realisability of systems that aren’t completelycontrollable: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/912046

Types of controllability: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0305-4470/35/18/309

More detail in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110171

Hilbert spaces: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~hunter/book/ch6.pdf

Pure vs mixed states: https://medium.com/@emilmarinov/pure-mixed-and-entangled-quantum-states-84e8a4a8dd16

Controllability with a single actuator: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0721

Dark states and their enlightenment: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4290

Quantum gravity lecture: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/oxford-mathematics-public-lectures-carlo-rovelli-spin-networks-quantum-structure-spacetime-penroses

Incorporating encoding into quantum system design: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.042408

Ilja Kuprov: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x97wv/professor-ilya-kuprov

Beyondpiecewise constant controls: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09458

 Lyaounov functions: https://underactuated.mit.edu/lyapunov.html

p.s. I would highly recommend the inControl episode on AleksandrLyapunov: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/18019902-ep37-a-m-lyapunov-the-general-problem-of-stability-of-motion

Control Lyapunov functions: https://stanford.edu/class/ee363/lectures/io-lyap.pdf

Lyapunov control of quantum systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5415539

Entanglement generation: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042305

Bell states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_state

Edmund Jonckheere: https://ee.usc.edu/~jonckhee/

SSV paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9682796

Robust control of open quantum systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9792196

Entanglement generation in a lossy cavity: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9992337

Quantum reservoir engineering: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474667016316962

Energy landscape shaping paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/addc0d/pdf

Schrodinger’s cat review paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjd/e2015-60464-1

Feynman’s lectures on physics: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

In this month’s episode got to talk to Dr Carrie Weidner allabout controlling quantum systems! I find out what the control objective is forthese systems, how to characterise their robustness (or at least attempt to),how easy it is to apply this to practical systems, and a lot more besides.

You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aixaD-P6R6jFDjS4Zp6nJ2n5ZHPfbWKYCue2v2_ZCVU/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

References

PhD thesis: https://jila.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/2019-03/Weidner_PhD_final.pdf

Sabine Hauert episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/65iwMh2NstKqXvfATpzfm4

Sabine episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12t_8k9LRckeGB--YVDS0XWnOeLX8sQcY3njA7jBCj1o/edit?usp=sharing

Carrie’s quantum control survey: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00294

Sophie Shermer: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/s.schirmer/

Frank Langbein: https://langbein.org/
Edmond Jonckheere: https://ee.usc.edu/~jonckhee/

Sean O’Neil: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=250lKHEAAAAJ&hl=en

Phila Rembold: https://qusco-itn.eu/portfolio_page/phila-rembold-2/
Bases in quantum control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20889

Nelder-Mead optmisation: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Nelder-Mead_algorithm#Advantages_and_disadvantageshttps://brandewinder.com/2022/03/31/breaking-down-Nelder-Mead/

Ronnie Kosloff: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1211067/prof-dr-ronnie-kosloff

Belavkin-Carmichael quantum filter: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510028

Luenburg filter papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06454

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6426181

Non-Markovian systems papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073023

 https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09637

Christiane Koch: https://atominnen.at/empower/interviews/382-christiane-koch

Open quantum systems paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/28/21/213001

Carrie’s mu analysis paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12385

Randa Herzallah: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/herzallah/

Paper on quantum optimal control: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207179.2024.2342939

Quantum thermodynamics paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.012139

Irtaza Khalid: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/khalidmi

Robustness-infidelity metric paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.032606

Time-domain log-sensitivity paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15783

Unifying log-sensitivity and RIM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09518

Robust quantum control papers:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05372

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13691

Energy landscape shaping paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/addc0d

Jacob Sherson: https://jacobsherson.com/

David DiVincenzo: https://qutech.nl/person/david-divincenzo/

Enrico Fermi: https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/greatinventors/enricofermi/index.html

Physical review letters paper: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.263201

Point spread modification paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05341

In this episode I sit down with Dr Andy Lawrence and learn all about the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), including his top tips on successful grant applications, advice for not getting discouraged by rejected submissions, how to build successful collaborations with industry, and a lot more besides!

You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FxscV2YjbfeI_u26ETkA25hMwGVmJojHdV5zj7J7wyE/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

References

Andy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-lawrence-7ab0361a/

UKRI: https://www.ukri.org/
EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/

Standard mode open funding: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/standard-research/

New investigator awards: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/new-investigator-award/

Network grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/network-grants/

Travel grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/international-funding/overseas-travel-grants/

Program grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/programme-grants/

Lyapunov theory: https://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cds101/fa02/caltech/mls93-lyap.pdf

Kalman filtering: https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/

https://kalmanfilter.net/

Non-compressible haemorrhage funding call: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/novel-technology-for-intervening-in-non-compressible-haemorrhage/

General multidisciplinary scheme: https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/ukri-cross-research-council-responsive-mode-pilot-scheme/

Details and support regarding EPSRC remit: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/epsrc-remit/

UKRI funding service: https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/develop-your-application/how-applicants-use-the-ukri-funding-service/

Peer review college: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-reviewers/peer-review-college/

Nature-based engineering funding call: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-nature-based-engineering/

UKRI remit agreement: https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/get-support-for-your-project/if-your-research-spans-different-disciplines/

Robotic mandibles project: https://www.ukri.org/news/copying-ants-could-help-robots-get-a-better-grip/ 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05364

This episode features the second part of my interview with the fantastic Alberto Padoan! Featuring discussions of data-driven modelling in a geometric/ non-linear context, how to define distances in a behavioural systems setting, and the origin story of his podcast, inControl.

You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/y67vmp

Follow the podcast on linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast

Or connect with me personally: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

Alberto episode part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kwlnlQqtID1naRcyLL12O

Paolo Rapisarda: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x2hb9/professor-paolo-rapisarda

(Coffee and Control episode) https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw

Persistency of excitation for autonomous systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7902166

Giordano Scarciotti: https://giordanoscarciotti.com/

Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi

Alessandro’s paper on moment matching: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5437314

Almost periodicity: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/02/16/almost-periodic-functions/

Examples of uses of polynomial matrices in behaviouralsystems context: https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/linear-differential-systems-2

Conical, convex, and affine behaviours paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10383687

Jan Willems behavioural systems paper: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/smc/jwillems/Articles/ConferenceArticles/2002/5.pdf

Ettore Fornasini: https://www.dei.unipd.it/~fornasini/

Data-driven control Stuttgart: ⁠https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/Y3ytXoAutonomous e-scooter: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/oMiusDSoft robotics: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992740MPC control of covid outbreaks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136757882030078X?via%3Dihub

Florian Dörfler: https://dorfler.ethz.ch/

John Lygeros: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.john-lygeros.html

Jeremy Coulson:  https://jeremycoulson.github.io/

Keith Moffat: www.keithmoffat.comAlessandro Chuiso: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/alessandro-chiuso/

Linear quadratic tracking paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7068299

Ivan Markovsky: https://imarkovs.github.io/

Distances between finite horizon behaviours: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11022752

Uncertainty quantification in data-driven control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9993002

Split-as-a-pro: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.19411

Yu Tang: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/yu-tang

Carlo Cenedese: https://ee.ethz.ch/the-department/people-a-z/person-detail.Mjg0OTQz.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.html

Alessio Rimoldi: https://github.com/AlessioRimoldi

Behavioural uncertainty gap metric paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9993002

Vidyasagar inControl episode (ep 33): https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/wfzcsi

Malcolm Smith: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mcs1000Glenn Vinnicombe: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/gv103
DeePC: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05890

CDC/LSS paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22849

Steve Brunton SVD series: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/isMaZS

inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/

NCCR automation: https://nccr-automation.ch/

Rudolf Kalman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n

Jan Willems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Camiel_Willems

George Zames: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zames

Norbert Weiner inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/7PQUfdRichard Bellman inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/XGgk11(Miroslav Kristic) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1RD07e(Tryphon Georgiou) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/mwpfwx(Mustafa Khammash) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/T0BsyS

In this episode I sit down with the wonderful Alberto Padoan and discuss his work on model order reduction and generalising concepts from linear systems to the non-linear setting.

You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/IRMql9

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

References

inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/

Andrea Marson: https://andreamarson.com/bio/

Master’s thesis: https://thesis.unipd.it/retrieve/82963fa4-bbb4-4577-9b83-b4e741a3ce20/main.pdf

Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi

Sandro Zampieri: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/old/people/zampieri.html

inControl guide to Controllability and Observability: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/haKThe

Stieltjes:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joannes_Stieltjes

PhD thesis: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/sImTiq

Keith Glover: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/kg103

Coffee and Control episode with Paolo Rapisarda: https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw

Thesis on Krylov projectors for model reduction: https://perso.uclouvain.be/paul.vandooren/ThesisGrimme.pdf

Sylvester equations and model reduction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042703007143

Book on Sylvester equations: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/e7nYSQ

Jacqueline Scherpen: https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.m.a.scherpen/cv?lang=en

Alberto Isidori: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/isidori/

Murray Wonham book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1082-5

Basile and Marro book: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/gE3KxH

Eigenvalues/ poles of nonlinear systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264032

Books on creativity:

Ernest Hemmingway quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_Hemingway

Dynamics of Creation (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamics-Creation-Anthony-Storr/dp/0345376730)explores how creativity helps resolve inner conflict.

Moment matching at singularities:

(Complex analytic) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896317314957

(Geometric) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264369

Moments of random variables: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8637762

Klein bottle videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsICMPwGPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

Distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(differential_geometry)

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~ban00101/anman2009/lecture2.pdf

http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~wangzuoq/Courses/18F-Manifolds/Notes/Lec15.pdf

András Sasfi: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.andras-sasfi.html

Model reduction of dominant systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109821002156

Rodolphe Sepulchre: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rs771

(inControl episode) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1cOrwp

(Paper on spiking systems) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9764708

Fulvio Forni: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/ff286

Goldbeter model: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9016794/

Goodwin model: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23936338/

Dominance margins: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896319318671

Early papers on dominance: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06155

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01721

Intro to Nyquist diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sof3meN96MA

John Doyle:

(inControl interviews) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/BTj37k

https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/k0PXan

Gioele Zardini: https://gioele.science/Alberto San Giovanni Vincentelli: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sangiovanni-vicentelli.html

(inControl interviews)

https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/9fYOiB

https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/ehkaV9

In this episode I sit down with Dr Ying Shuai Quan and getexcited about her work on adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems, with particular focus on applying model predictive control. Features deep-dives into various aspects of MPC, with occasional offshoots into other cool areas of control!

You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufp57VuzymcEivN3lzMaHVKgH8LgqI9BZDzgmdz2pug/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/

Or you can connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

References/ cool papers to learn more

Ying’s thesis: https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/188296

Tube-based adaptive cruise control paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992382

Motion sickness patents: (general system) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250115255A1/en

(control and estimation) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250128715A1/en

Tutorial on IQCs: https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84979771505

Classic LMI book: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/lmibook/lmibook.pdf

LMIs in control book chapter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-84800-025-4_4

Steve Brunton MPC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwodGM2eoy4&t=1s

Great review/ tutorial paper on MPC: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-021-07682-3

Review on linear fractional transformations: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/261572

Ying’s control-barrier functions paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10130631

Tutorial paper on CBFs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10836828

Review on control barrier functions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10836828

Using CBFs in MPC: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08400

Control Lyapunov-barrier function-based MPC: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8431468

High-order CBFs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9516971

Neural network lane-keeping paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8859955

Robust stability of NN-based LKS: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10644841

Matt Turner episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KLLOvbCjOkL0v8iXo84vt

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r41Lcpv4MtxnqfMn8ZFfnAqiK5rlfcPZ19NQhfeqaFI/edit?usp=sharing

Multiple model switched adaptive control: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/72334/

Examples of systems with unknown input delays:

(Connected platoons) https://ieeexplore-ieee-org/document/9530266

(Glucose control in diabetes) https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85192198866

(Spacecraft control) https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84947032651

Min-max MPC for non-linear systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0947358009707034

PCA: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-analysis/principal-component-analysis-pca/

LPV gain-scheduling control with parameter reduction: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9830128

Safe MPC using constraint softening: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15373

Application to autonomous driving: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05933

Robust and Stochastic MPC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367578816300098

Stochastic MPC review: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7740982Polynomial chaos in non-linear stochastic MPC: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6858851

Polynomial chaos overview: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6595094

Melanie Zeilinger: https://idsc.ethz.ch/the-institute/people/person-detail.html?persid=142737

Safe learning-based control talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBK1CNuU66c&t=572s

Control meets learning seminar series: https://sites.google.com/view/control-meets-learning/home

This episode is an ECC special, where I go on a trip to theEuropean control conference and bring you with me!

Connect with me and with the podcast

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/

X: https://x.com/coffee_ctrl_pod

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffee_and_control_podcast/

References (Cool people to go look up!)

ECC25 web page: https://ecc25.euca-ecc.org/

Guido Carnevale: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/guido.carnevale/en

Luca Furieri: https://www.lucafurieri.it/

René Vidal: http://vision.jhu.edu/rvidal.html

Lisa Li: https://flyingpeach.github.io/

Victor Magron: https://homepages.laas.fr/vmagron/

Giacomo Como: https://www.control.lth.se/personnel-old/giacomo-como/

Venanzio Cichella (safe autonomous agents): https://engineering.uiowa.edu/directory/venanzio-cichella

Maryam Kamgarpour: https://people.epfl.ch/maryam.kamgarpour?lang=en

Miroslav Kristic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/

Iasson Karafyllis: https://semfe.ntua.gr/en/faculty-members/item/16-karafyllis

Daniel Nikovski: https://www.merl.com/people/nikovski

Rosane Ushirobira: https://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~ushirobira/

Michelle Chong: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/michelle-chong

Timm Faulwasser: https://www.tuhh.de/ics/teampages/timm-faulwasser

Seth Siriya: https://www.irt.uni-hannover.de/en/siriya

Lorenzo Zino: https://lorenzozino90.wixsite.com/lzino

François-Grégoire Bierwart (Koopman operators): https://researchportal.unamur.be/en/persons/fgbierwa

Konstantin Zimenko (Finite-time stability analysis): https://dblp.org/pid/144/1527.html

ABB: https://global.abb/

Massimiliano D’Angelo: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KrzPm2UAAAAJ&hl=it

Yongduan Song (Neural network semi-plenary): https://accu.cqu.edu.cn/info/1112/3673.htm

Niloufar Dabestani: https://www.trafficfluid.tuc.gr/en/people/phd-students/dabestani

Antonella Ferrara: http://sisdin.unipv.it/labsisdin/people/ferant/ferant.php

Maria Laura Delle Monache: https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/delle-monache

Carlo Novara (MPC on quantum computers): https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=003528

Daniel Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson

Stefano Stramigioli: https://people.utwente.nl/s.stramigioli

Frank Allgower (Event-based control): https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/press/experts/Prof.-Frank-Allgoewer/