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The first podcast on control theory.
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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...
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: h...
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 - Interpl...
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 res...
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 c...
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...
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...
Outline 00:00 Intro 01:19 Swedish control heritage and early steps 05:21 PhD at Lund and relay feedback systems 15:40 Berkeley years 19:58 Hybrid systems 26:46 Networked control systems 30:32 Interaction with industry 34:40 Wireless control systems 40:33 Platooning in freight transport 49:27 Future of mobility 52:55 Event-based control 58:58 Cybersecurity 1:05:10 Societal-scale challenges 1:12:33 Bode lecture reflections 1:15:05 Digital futures 1:23:38 Advice for future students Links Kalle’...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:14 - Early steps in control 05:36 - L1 control 17:09 - Relay feedback systems 24:32 - Agile robotic maneuvers 29:31 - Abstractions and models 41:59 - Causality 49:35 - Markets and power grids 1:00:20 - Role of network structure 1:05:03 - Data, systems, and society 1:16:17 - On writing 1:22:57 - Cascaded failures in networks 1:30:40 - Information design 1:34:29 - Data markets 1:42:27 - On economics and engineering 1:48:18 - Systems thinking for societal problems 1:58:2...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Early education and PhD in control 10:35 - Non-negative linear algebra & modelling uncertainty principle 22:50 - Influence of Willems & the Frisch scheme 34:27 - Subspace identification & stochastic behavioural system theory 38:39 - Stanford experience with Golub & Kailath 53:30 - Return to Leuven: LS-SVMs, quantum information, and beyond 1:07:48 - Multilinear algebra and tensor trains 1:11:59 - Exact/approximate modelling and angles between syste...
Outline 01:16 - Intro 02:28 - Early steps in Italy and California 13:00 - From Riemannian geometry … 17:01 - … to geometric control, robotics and locomotion 34:54 - Academic environment at Caltech 35:06 - From single robots to robotic networks 53:51 - Art gallery problem 1:01:37 - Networked and cyber-physical systems 1:21:47 - Contracting dynamics 1:33:07 - Coupled oscillators and power grids 1:47:20 - On mathematical sociology 1:56:44 - Writing and publishing 2:02:14 - About professional ser...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - From Boeing to Planetary Resources 08:57 - The origin of control videos 17:07 - About teaching style 20:52 - The (unnecessary?) math behind controls 26:54 - On interdisciplinarity 31:35 - How to build knowledge fast 48:32 - Resourcium 01:00:49 - The map of control theory 01:11:09 - IFAC Cartoons 01:15:35 - Fundamentals of control theory book 01:24:49 - The role of projects 01:34:27 - Future of control education 01:43:43 - Advice to future students Links Brian’...
1Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - Early Years 04:17 - The “Scenic Route” to Control Theory 12:44 - Sampled Data Systems 22:26 - Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) Identification 28:07 - From Distributed Systems and PDEs ... 38:59 - ... to Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems 49:02 - Taming the Navier-Stokes Equations 50:55 - Advice to Future Students 1:13:12 - Coherence in Large Scale Systems 1:32:28 - On Resistive Losses in Power Systems 1:39:00 - Cochlear Instabilities 1:50:40 - Stoch...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - Platform-based design (PBD) in biology 16:42 - Cyberphysical systems, automotive industry, hybrid systems 27:32 - Contracts in system design 34:50 - Chiplets 41:48 - About time: the tag signal model 52:15 - Neuromorphics 59:21 - Innovative ecosystems 1:07:35 - Advice to future students 1:16:26 - The role of luck Links BiKi Technologies: https://t.ly/RuaW7 R. Murray: https://t.ly/Zy_Up S. Sastry: https://t.ly/qsf44 C. Tomlin: https://t.ly/tQ0XZ Platf...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:40 - Classic Studies 06:51 - Early Steps in Berkeley between Optimization and Circuits Theory 16:04 - Back to Italy... and back to Berkeley 26:29 - The SPICE program and the interaction with IBM 33:30 - Logic Synthesis, Simulated Annealing, Timberwolf 40:57 - The Intel x386, YACR, and ESPRESSO 47:01 - The birth of Cadence and Synopsis 1:06:01 - Corsi e Ricorsi in EDA 1:30:45 - The Shift to Automotive and Platform-Based Design 1:39:06 - Outro Links Alberto’s website: h...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - Early steps… in physics! 05:17 - AI in Edinburgh 08:00 - Connectionism 10:37 - Robot learning 19:02 - Imitation learning 23:00 - On pursuing a PhD 24:45 - Californian chronicles 30:10 - Modularity 33:20 - Challenges in robot learning 39:44 - Dexterous manipulation 43:52 - Dynamical systems 47:37 - Combining ML and control 51:25 - Human-robot interaction 54:24 - Safety and compliance 57:54 - Deadlines for papers 1:06:38 - Advice to future students 1:07:08 - Outro ...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:33 - Starling Flock Formations 07:17 - Harvesters ants in the desert 16:54 - Decision making in the natural world and opinion dynamics 32:08 - A geometric look at political polarization 36:50 - Control theory and dancing 53:25 - CreativeX 55:25 - On creativity 57:47 - Advice to future students Links Andrea Cavagna - http://tinyurl.com/uywn592j Irene Giardina - http://tinyurl.com/4jmk2h5n Starling Flock Networks Manage Uncertainty in Consensus at Low Cost: http:...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:05 - Dancing and control theory 03:31 - Geometric control on Lie groups 09:14 - Underwater vehicles and geometric mechanics 18:45 - On the Hamiltonian framework 21:25 - Underwater field experiments in Monte Rey Bay 36:27 - Collective motion and coordination in animal groups 54:40 - Honeybees and bifurcation theory 1:03:36 - Outro Links Naomi’s website: http://tinyurl.com/j755aww5 Naomi’s PhD Thesis: http://tinyurl.com/ywkvvy7k Lie group: http://tinyurl.com/2p83jw9s ...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - Mind the gap (metric) 03:16 - Moment problems and Nevanlinna interpolation 06:53 - “Everything relates to everything else” 11:27 - Distances between power spectra 16:08 - Optimal mass transport and Schrödinger bridges 32:25 - Sinkhorn iteration and Wasserstein geometry 37:45 - Color of turbulence 41:38 - Thermodynamics and energy harvesting from heat baths 55:01 - Quantum mechanics 57:55 - Adjustable one-ports 1:07:20 - “Aha moments” and advice to future ge...
Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:50 - Running marathons 05:19 - The Center 13:28 - On creativity 15:24 - From algebraic system theory to moment problems 43:39 - The gap metric 58:33 - The longstanding friendship and collaboration with M. Smith 01:11:30 - On causality and the arrow of time Links Tryphon’s website: https://georgiou.eng.uci.edu/ People in control interview: https://tinyurl.com/4nw5s9p6 R. Kalman: https://tinyurl.com/mux93t32 A. Tannenbaum: https://tinyurl.com/2pws6rzd Momen...
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