inControl

Feb 17 2025 30 ep. 81 mins 152
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The first podcast on control theory. 
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ep30 - Manfred Morari: A pioneer’s journey through robust, predictive and computational control

Feb 17 2025 106 mins  
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://t

ep29 - Richard Bellman: The Father of Dynamic Programming

Jan 17 2025 89 mins  
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

ep28 - Karl Henrik Johansson: Semper in Motu - Hybrid Systems, Wireless and Event-Based Control, Mobility, Cybersecurity, and Societal Challenges

Dec 15 2024 89 mins  
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 cha

ep27 - Munther Dahleh: L1 control, agile robotic maneuvering, abstractions, cascaded failures, markets, data and systems for societal problems

Oct 17 2024 124 mins  
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

ep26 - Bart De Moor: subspace identification, linear & multilinear algebra, quantum information, ML

Aug 21 2024 117 mins  
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 beyo

ep25 - Francesco Bullo: Geometric control, robotic networks, networked systems, mathematical sociology, contraction theory

Jul 15 2024 128 mins  
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

ep24 - Brian Douglas: Boeing, Control Videos, Resourcium, Map of Control Theory, Cartoons, Mathworks

Jun 13 2024 106 mins  
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 -

ep23 - Bassam Bamieh: Sampled Data Systems, PDEs, Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems, Coherence, Resistive Losses, Cochlear Instabilities, and Stochasticity in Feedback Loops

May 15 2024 143 mins  
Outline 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 i

ep22 - Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Part II: Cyberphysical and hybrid systems, Contracts, Chiplets, Models of computation, Time, Innovative Ecosystems, BioBricks, Neuromorphics

Apr 14 2024 80 mins  
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/Ru

ep21 - Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Part I: Classics, EDA, Logic Synthesis, SPICE, Intel x386, Cadence, Synopsis, Platform-based design

Mar 15 2024 107 mins  
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 Rico