The first podcast on control theory and related topics, including feedback, decision making, artificial intelligence, robotics and much more. The podcast is supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» at ETH Zürich, which you can check at the following link: https://nccr-automation.ch/nccr-automation
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...
Erschienen: 16.05.2025
Dauer: 01:30:07
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...
Erschienen: 15.04.2025
Dauer: 02:02:44
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...
Erschienen: 17.02.2025
Dauer: 01:46:16
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 programming46:06 - Project matterhorn51:00 - Back to RAND56:14 - Curse of dimensionality1:02:41 - Divorce and remarriage1:08:29 - Greenglass affair1:14:21 - USC1:18:55 - Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions1:22:55 - Last years1:26:08 - OutroLinksR. Bellman: https://tinyurl.com/ydkmwexyC. M. Bellm...
Erschienen: 17.01.2025
Dauer: 01:29:40
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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 industry34:40 Wireless control systems40:33 Platooning in freight transport49:27 Future of mobility52:55 Event-based control58:58 Cybersecurity1:05:10 Societal-scale challenges1:12:33 Bode lecture reflections1:15:05 Digital futures1:23:38 Advice for future studentsLinksKalle’s website: https://...
Erschienen: 15.12.2024
Dauer: 01:29:05
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 grids01:00:20 - Role of assumptions1:05:03 - Data, systems, and society1:16:17 - On writing1:22:57 - Cascaded failures in networks1:30:40 - Information design1:34:29 - Data markets1:42:27 - On economics and engineering1:48:18 - Systems thinking for societal problems1:58:24 - Advice to future s...
Erschienen: 17.10.2024
Dauer: 02:04:30
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 identification & stochastic behavioural system theory38:39 - Stanford experience with Golub & Kailath53:30 - Return to Leuven: LS-SVMs, quantum information, and beyond1:07:48 - Multilinear algebra and tensor trains1:11:59 - Exact/approximate modelling and angles between systems1:25:34...
Erschienen: 21.08.2024
Dauer: 01:57:10
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 robots to robotic networks53:51 - Art gallery problem1:01:37 - Networked and cyber-physical systems1:21:47 - Contracting dynamics1:33:07 - Coupled oscillators and power grids1:47:20 - On mathematical sociology1:56:44 - Writing and publishing2:02:14 - About professional service2:08:04 -...
Erschienen: 15.07.2024
Dauer: 02:08:45
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 - How to build knowledge fast48:32 - Resourcium01:00:49 - The map of control theory 01:11:09 - IFAC Cartoons01:15:35 - Fundamentals of control theory book01:24:49 - The role of projects01:34:27 - Future of control education01:43:43 - Advice to future students LinksBrian’s website: https:...
Erschienen: 14.06.2024
Dauer: 01:46:24
