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  • ep38 - inControl guide to ... Feedback

    Outline
    00:00 – Intro
    07:22 – Anatomy of a feedback loop
    15:12 – A brief historical recap on the history of feedback
    23:40 – Inventing the negative feedback amplifier
    34:28 – Feedback in biology, economics, society, and ... board games!
    52:44 – Negative vs positive feedback
    59:15 – Feedback, causality, and the arrow of time
    1:06:22 – Classics: fundamental limitations, uncertainty, robustness
    1:21:30 – Adaptive control: learning in the loop
    1:29:50 – Modern AI feedback loops (RL, social media, alignment)
    1:40:40 – Outro

    Links
    Watt’s flyball governor: https://tinyurl.com/ne5nene3
    Maxwell - "On Governors": https://tinyurl.com/2a7cxj7m
    Black - "Inventing the negative-feedback amplifier": https://tinyurl.com/yevsemdp
    Nyquist Criterion: https://tinyurl.com/33hfbw8m
    Bode's integral: https://tinyurl.com/53sxkdzu
    Wiener - "Cybernetics": https://tinyurl.com/yta899ay
    Apoptosis: https://tinyurl.com/mcxjycka
    Predator–prey dynamics (Lotka–Volterra): https://tinyurl.com/5cvx33tn
    Bird migration cues (photoperiodism): https://tinyurl.com/y2e7t22v
    Neuron action potentials: https://tinyurl.com/2wemwdn4
    Economic equilibrium & feedback: https://tinyurl.com/nhdx7r3s
    Echo chambers: https://tinyurl.com/4v8yk7e8
    Game design: https://tinyurl.com/bdhdhv38
    Gap metric (Vinnicombe): https://tinyurl.com/y9nw3yve
    Georgiou, Smith - "Feedback Control and the Arrow of Time": https://tinyurl.com/5xvj76jr
    Annaswamy, Fradkov - "A Historical Perspective of Adaptive Control and Learning": https://tinyurl.com/4nfew8vm
    Algorithmic trading flash crash (2010): https://tinyurl.com/2dsrs8j2
    AI alignment: https://tinyurl.com/yvs3wnj8

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr 26 min
  • ep37 - A. M. Lyapunov: The General Problem of Stability of Motion

    Outline
    00:00 - Intro
    03:12 - Early life
    09:07 - St. Petersburg: Stability of Ellipsoidal Bodies
    20:13 - Kharkov: The General Problem of the Stability of Motion
    34:37 - Back to St. Petersburg: Probability & Academy
    46:22 - Tragic end
    49:50 - Posthumous recognition 
    57:49 - Legacy
    1:20:39 - Outro

    Links
    A. M. Lyapunov: https://tinyurl.com/3kjuhfns
    S. Lyapunov: https://tinyurl.com/mury7p3s
    Smirnov's bio: https://tinyurl.com/6wpffh3z
    Bissell's essay: https://tinyurl.com/3ds3hubj
    Sechenov: https://tinyurl.com/ypsr37vc
    Krylov: https://tinyurl.com/44wez8w5
    Krylov subspace: https://tinyurl.com/bw527uh2
    Chebyshev: https://tinyurl.com/2n35usfr
    The General Problem of Stability of Motion: https://tinyurl.com/mv2jchv2
    Lyapunov stability: https://tinyurl.com/bb59vcuf
    Central limit theorem: https://tinyurl.com/3r36p458
    Van der Pol oscillator: https://tinyurl.com/3s68yyhr
    Massera’s theorem: https://tinyurl.com/2zjmtvjw
    LaSalle’s invariance principle: https://tinyurl.com/pjnrp3fh
    Krasovskii: https://tinyurl.com/junbujsw
    Popov criterion: https://tinyurl.com/uyt3kx5b
    Control Lyapunov function: https://tinyurl.com/3v7bnusj
    Artstein–Sontag formula: https://tinyurl.com/3fdebmm3
    Input-to-state stability: https://tinyurl.com/3nca9nj6
    Lyapunov equation: https://tinyurl.com/mvakw3yw
    Hybrid systems: https://tinyurl.com/v39up6wk
    Control barrier function: https://tinyurl.com/sy4p5jj
    Dominance theory: https://tinyurl.com/msvnd4dv

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr 25 min
  • ep36 - Markos Papageorgiou: Traffic Control — Theory and Practice

    Outline

    00:00 – Intro

    00:51 – Early steps in research

    09:55 – Historical overview of traffic control

    25:20 – What is traffic?

    34:06 – Road traffic control

    45:37 – PI control of road junctions

    58:19 – From macroscopic to microscopic simulations and back

    1:10:08 – Dynamic traffic assignment

    1:21:28 – Return to Greece

    1:28:33 – The optimal control problem

    1:41:48 – Traffic estimation

    1:47:34 – The impact of automation and connectivity

    1:59:20 – Traffic as an artificial fluid

    2:07:51 – The future of traffic control

    2:10:48 – Advice to future students

    2:13:53 – Outro


    Link

    Homepage: https://tinyurl.com/yw7kee97

    CSS day lecture: https://tinyurl.com/46vua4r7

    Monograph - Applications of Automatic Control Concepts to Traffic Flow Modeling and Control: https://tinyurl.com/5czax788

    Review of road traffic control strategies: https://tinyurl.com/48u235pw

    ALINEA: https://tinyurl.com/bdtvny87

    METANET: https://tinyurl.com/3h9xv48t

    AIMSUM:https://tinyurl.com/mr2xkryj

    AMOC: https://tinyurl.com/3v2xysr2

    HERO: https://tinyurl.com/yzn6vkwh

    Real-time freeway traffic state estimation based on extended Kalman filter: a general approach: https://tinyurl.com/2ubsh7cy

    TRAMAN: https://tinyurl.com/ypr65cfa

    Coordinated and integrated control of motorway networks via non-linear optimal control: https://tinyurl.com/3v2xysr2

    Motorway traffic flow modelling, estimation and control with vehicle automation and communication systems: https://tinyurl.com/49679hy8

    From road congestion to vehicle-control enabled artificial traffic fluids: https://tinyurl.com/pk4j8htp

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    2 hr 15 min
  • ep35 - Cosimo Della Santina: From Dexterous Manipulation to Soft Robotics and Embodied Intelligence

    Outline
    00:00 – Intro
    01:19 – Early steps: PhD journey & robotic hands
    15:42 – What is a soft robot?
    23:35 – MIT years & models of soft robots
    30:01 – Discretization & underactuation
    37:21 – The regulation problem
    47:01 – Pros and cons of soft robots
    51:42 – The soft inverted pendulum
    1:05:27 – Eigenmanifolds
    1:15:22 – Physical intelligence
    1:26:09 – On machine learning
    1:37:49 – Embodied AI & TC on Robot Control
    1:44:50 – Advice to future students

    Links
    - Cosimo’s website: https://tinyurl.com/mt37597k
    - Piaggio Center: https://tinyurl.com/muryjw5h
    - Pisa Robotic Hand: https://tinyurl.com/4ujtec59
    - Model-Based Dynamic Controller for a Planar Soft Robot: https://tinyurl.com/5a8fv3c8
    - Soft Robot definition (Encyclopaedia of Robotics): https://tinyurl.com/3y2jz987
    - Isidori’s book: https://tinyurl.com/42254hav
    - CSM magazine paper: https://tinyurl.com/bd54an6x
    - Cosserat rod theory: https://tinyurl.com/zu73nadx
    - Strain function: https://tinyurl.com/y8v63ue2
    - Zero dynamics: https://tinyurl.com/2ezarn5e
    - The soft inverted pendulum: https://tinyurl.com/y4bzkkup
    - Templates and anchors: https://tinyurl.com/2957w6sz
    - Exciting Efficient Oscillations Through Eigenmanifold Stabilisation: https://tinyurl.com/yc3586y5
    - When Do Lyapunov Subcentre Manifolds Become Eigenmanifolds?: https://tinyurl.com/5tckw7xe
    - Passive walker: https://tinyurl.com/yjwwapv5
    - Strandbeests: https://tinyurl.com/494mfccu
    - Physical control: https://tinyurl.com/bdddb6ur
    - Morphological computation: https://tinyurl.com/an6vaahx
    - The Playful Machine: https://tinyurl.com/5525xys2

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr 47 min
  • ep34 - inControl guide to ... Controllability & Observability

    Outline

    00:00 - Intro
    01:06 - The big idea
    03:42 - Controllability, observability, and  ... the space race!
    14:52 - Kálmán and the state-space paradigm
    00:00 - The math and intuition: state-space basics, definitions, and duality
    00:00 - A touch of nonlinearity
    00:00 - Developments in the field: a chronological tour
    00:00 - Controllability and observability: quo vaditis?
    00:00 - Outro

    Links
    Kálmán: https://tinyurl.com/bdzj7mtr
    Controllability: https://tinyurl.com/28s5zxpn
    Observability: https://tinyurl.com/yjxncxdn
    Paper - "Contributions to the theory of optimal control": https://tinyurl.com/9wwf8pvh
    Paper - "Discovery and Invention": https://tinyurl.com/ryfn463n
    Kálmán's speech -  Kyoto Prize : https://tinyurl.com/2ahrjdah
    Paper - Controllability of complex networks: https://tinyurl.com/3zk99n4s


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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr
  • ep33 - Mathukumalli Vidyasagar: control synthesis, robotics, randomized algorithms, learning, compressed sensing, non-convex optimization

    Outline

    00:00 - Intro

    00:42 - “Research should be fun”

    02:02 - Early steps in research

    09:00 - Book writing and meeting C. Desoer

    18:33 - Control synthesis via the factorization approach

    25:46 - The graph metric 

    29:27 - Robotics and CAIR

    36:00 - Randomized algorithms

    40:41 - On learning

    44:05 - Neural networks

    48:40 - Tata, hidden Markov models, and large deviations theory

    55:48 - Picking problems and role of luck

    58:07 - Compressed sensing and non-convex optimization

    01:02:17 - Interplay between control and machine learning

    01:09:10 - Advice to future students

    01:13:29 - Future of control

    Links

    Sagar’s website: https://tinyurl.com/4hwruajs

    Hilbert: https://tinyurl.com/ykpdh929

    Feedback Systems: https://tinyurl.com/2k3jsdat

    How to Write Mathematics: https://tinyurl.com/35794bv9

    Nonlinear systems: https://tinyurl.com/2fdtnjcm

    C. Desoer: https://tinyurl.com/svhknren

    Control Systems Synthesis — A Factorization Approach: https://tinyurl.com/59wdc4sv

    Aryabhata: https://tinyurl.com/43x6hfhp

    A Brief History of the Graph Topology: https://tinyurl.com/49uftzdk

    Robot Dynamics and Control: https://tinyurl.com/5b4cmt7m

    CAIR: https://tinyurl.com/rajdtxax

    Randomized algorithms for robust controller synthesis using statistical learning theory: https://tinyurl.com/wanpyeuc

    R. Tempo: https://tinyurl.com/jkufdwar

    VC dimension: https://tinyurl.com/mvwk8afm

    Learning and Generalisation: https://tinyurl.com/2s3mzh8h

    Are Analog Neural Networks Better Than Binary Neural Networks? https://tinyurl.com/3fnk27xc

    Hidden Markov Processes: https://tinyurl.com/t5frrvfz

    An Introduction to Compressed Sensing: https://tinyurl.com/fc6a8eer

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr 19 min
  • ep32 - Anders Rantzer: robust control, IQCs, nonlinear and hybrid systems, positivity and scalable control, adaptive control

    Outline
    00:00 - Intro and early steps in control
    06:42 - Journey to the US
    08:30 - Kharitonov's theorem and early influences
    12:10 - From Lund to KTH (Stockholm)
    15:01 - Ascona and collaboration with Megretski
    24:06 - The IMA year in Minnesota
    33:50 - Integral quadratic constraints
    46:10 - KYP lemma and meeting Yakubovich
    52:35 - Piecewise hybrid systems
    59:41 - Dual to Lyapunov theorem
    1:06:48 -  Positivity and large scale systems
    1:15:25 - Adaptive and dual control
    1:25:24 - Future research directions

    Links
    Master's thesis: https://tinyurl.com/vnkuf44a
    Kharitonov's theorem: https://tinyurl.com/3w3a3z52
    IMA: https://cse.umn.edu/ima
    LCCC: http://www.lccc.lth.se/
    Real stability radius paper: https://tinyurl.com/yc79zt58
    IQC paper: https://tinyurl.com/mw2te4vw
    KYP lemma paper: https://tinyurl.com/2fv32yw6
    Piecewise quadratic Lyapunov functions for hybrid systems: https://tinyurl.com/38a5f432
    Piecewise linear quadratic optimal control: https://tinyurl.com/yhddbhpx
    Fast switches in relay feedback systems: https://tinyurl.com/23e95k9n
    Dual to Lyapunov's stability theorem: https://tinyurl.com/yc2uf652
    ECC’15 plenary: https://tinyurl.com/sy3k7vf7
    Scalable control of positive systems: https://tinyurl.com/3vcda447
    Tutorial on Positive Systems and Large Scale Control: https://tinyurl.com/3e4fkxz8
    KYP lemma for positive systems: https://tinyurl.com/3pdp3p7p
    CDC’25 plenary: https://tinyurl.com/497py5wh
    Data driven Riccati equation: https://tinyurl.com/3swjtvab

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr 31 min
  • ep31 - Miroslav Krstić: nonlinear adaptive control, PDEs, delays, extremum seeking, safety, neural operators for control

    Outline
    00:00 - Intro
    01:07 - Early steps
    02:47 - Why control?
    05:20 - The move to the US
    07:40 - The first journal paper
    13:30 - What is backstepping?
    17:08 - Grad school
    25:10 - Stochastic stabilization
    29:53 - The interest in PDEs
    43:24 - Navier-Stokes equations
    52:12 - Hyperbolic PDEs and traffic models
    57:51 - Predictors for long delays
    1:08:14 - Extremum seeking
    1:27:14 - Safe control
    1:36:30 - Interplay between machine learning and control
    1:42:28 - Back to the roots: robust adaptive control
    1:50:50 - On service
    1:55:54 - Advice

    Links
    Miroslav’s site: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/
    Tuning functions paper: https://tinyurl.com/yznv6r9r
    P. Kokotović: https://tinyurl.com/mwmbm9yh
    Separation and swapping:  https://tinyurl.com/y4fre6t8
    Adaptive nonlinear stabilizers: https://tinyurl.com/4a9wmmvx
    KKK book: https://tinyurl.com/2kw2b4k6
    Stochastic nonlinear stabilization: https://tinyurl.com/4td3537a
    Follow-up with unknown covariance: https://tinyurl.com/4c4n7fd7
    Boundary state feedbacks for PIDEs: https://tinyurl.com/4e9y4tdr
    Boundary Control of PDEs: https://tinyurl.com/d8x38bmj
    Stabilization of Navier–Stokes systems: https://tinyurl.com/4a8cbjem
    Traffic congestion control: https://tinyurl.com/525jphs5
    Delay compensation: https://tinyurl.com/5yz6uj9p
    Nonlinear predictors for long delays: https://tinyurl.com/7wvce6vy
    Stability of extremum seeking: https://tinyurl.com/mr5cvzd3
    Nash equilibrium seeking: https://tinyurl.com/yeywrysn
    Inverse optimal safety filters: https://tinyurl.com/9dkrpvkk
    Neural operators for PDE control: https://tinyurl.com/5yynsp7v
    Bode lecture: https://tinyurl.com/mp92cs9u
    CSM article: https://tinyurl.com/2av9r253

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    2 hr 3 min
  • ep30 - Manfred Morari: A pioneer’s journey through robust, predictive and computational control

    Outline
    00:00 - Intro
    03:26 - Development: ETH Zürich
    07:15 - Growth: Minnesota and Wisconsin
    36:16 - Productivity: Caltech
    53:28 - Change: ETH Zürich
    01:37:18 - Continuity: University of Pennsylvania
    01:45:36 - Outro

    Links
    Manfred’s website: https://tinyurl.com/mryp38w3
    Farewell lecture: https://tinyurl.com/2j5uxsp4
    Laying the foundations: an advisor’s perspective: https://tinyurl.com/ym5e4437
    Internal model control. A unifying review and some new results:  https://tinyurl.com/vmm7a4tk
    Internal model control - PID controller design: https://tinyurl.com/rup3azjm
    Robust process control: https://tinyurl.com/8uhurkub
    Robust control of ill-conditioned plants: high-purity distillation: https://tinyurl.com/5xfty34c
    Computational complexity of \mu calculation: https://tinyurl.com/24yvvcc7
    Robust constrained model predictive control using linear matrix inequalities: https://tinyurl.com/3pdk55kk
    Control of systems integrating logic, dynamics, and constraints: https://tinyurl.com/489ekvsn
    The explicit linear quadratic regulator for constrained systems: https://tinyurl.com/mr2e3z83
    Model predictive control: https://tinyurl.com/2s4dafkd
    Parametric programming: https://tinyurl.com/2u9vj79y
    Embotech: https://tinyurl.com/3f99ks65
    Embedded online optimization for model predictive control at megahertz rates: https://tinyurl.com/59z3vnb9
    Donoho’s “Bridge from mathematical to digital and back”: https://tinyurl.com/3f9fk73w

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    Acknowledgments and sponsors
    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

    1 hr 47 min
  • ep29 - Richard Bellman: The Father of Dynamic Programming

    Outline
    00:00 - Intro
    02:42 - Early life
    10:24 - WWII, Johns Hopkins, Belleville, Madison
    17:17 - Princeton
    20:30 - Los Alamos
    24:12 - Back to Princeton
    31:01 - RAND + Stanford
    42:10 - Dynamic programming
    46:06 - Project matterhorn
    51:00 - Back to RAND
    56:14 - Curse of dimensionality
    1:02:41 - Divorce and remarriage
    1:08:29 - Greenglass affair
    1:14:21 - USC
    1:18:55 - Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
    1:22:55 - Last years
    1:26:08 - Outro

    Links
    R. Bellman: https://tinyurl.com/ydkmwexy
    C. M. Bellman: https://tinyurl.com/yfbafetj
    Dynamic programming: https://tinyurl.com/mtsuampr
    Curse of dimensionality: https://tinyurl.com/383yads8
    Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation: https://tinyurl.com/muu4ckvs
    Bellman equation: https://tinyurl.com/y8bvzztm
    Grönwall-Bellman inequality: https://tinyurl.com/mrwdxzd8
    S. Lefschetz: https://tinyurl.com/2s39nnzv
    RAND corporation: https://tinyurl.com/4bfyhp9p
    Eye of the hurricane: https://tinyurl.com/bd6h84ka
    G. Szegő: https://tinyurl.com/mrthmmvm
    Project Matterhorn: https://tinyurl.com/5az9c3sh
    D. Greenglass: https://tinyurl.com/p2kfp7cz
    Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions: https://tinyurl.com/3vkupdty

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    This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

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