Coffee and Control

Lucy Hodgins
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Podcast in which I interview fascinating people from within the world of control theory/ control engineering. Primarily aimed at PhD/masters students but can hopefully be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in control. New episodes released monthly

  1. CDC special (Conference of Decision and Control 2025)

    JAN 1

    CDC special (Conference of Decision and Control 2025)

    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/tylerhanksNextCom: 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)

    51 min
  2. IEEE NextCom (Fostering Community Within Controls Research)

    2025-12-27 · BONUS

    IEEE NextCom (Fostering Community Within Controls Research)

    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: bbutler2@uci.edu Anastasia Bizyaeva: https://anastasiabzv.github.io/ Email: anastasiab@cornell.edu 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

    18 min
  3. Sophie Schirmer (Quantum Control 2: Controllability and Robustness)

    2025-12-01

    Sophie Schirmer (Quantum Control 2: Controllability and Robustness)

    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/

    58 min
  4. Carrie Weidner (Quantum Control 1: Optimisation and Application)

    2025-11-01

    Carrie Weidner (Quantum Control 1: Optimisation and Application)

    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

    1h 10m
  5. Andy Lawrence (EPSRC grant funding)

    2025-10-09 · BONUS

    Andy Lawrence (EPSRC grant funding)

    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

    53 min
  6. Alberto Padoan: Part 2 (Distances between behaviours and inControl podcast)

    2025-10-01

    Alberto Padoan: Part 2 (Distances between behaviours and inControl podcast)

    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/gv103DeePC: 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

    54 min
  7. Alberto Padoan: Part 1 (Moments of Systems and Model Reduction)

    2025-09-01

    Alberto Padoan: Part 1 (Moments of Systems and Model Reduction)

    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

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  8. Ying Shuai Quan (Model Predictive Control and Autonomous Driving)

    2025-08-01

    Ying Shuai Quan (Model Predictive Control and Autonomous Driving)

    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

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Podcast in which I interview fascinating people from within the world of control theory/ control engineering. Primarily aimed at PhD/masters students but can hopefully be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in control. New episodes released monthly

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    Lucy Hodgins
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    2024 - 2026
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