inControl

About this podcast

The first podcast on control theory.
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Episodes

The newest 20 of 49 episodes

• ep49 - inControl @ IFAC 2026 - M. Vidyasagar, H. Khalil, S. Boyd - So you want to write a classic?14 Oct 2026 · 1 h 23 minOutline 00:00 - Intro 02:30 - Did anyone know they were writing a classic? 11:07 - When course notes become a textbook 15:36 - Who is the reader? Monographs written for future…
• ep48 - Romeo Ortega: From sliding modes to adaptive, passivity-based and energy-shaping control13 Sep 2026 · 1 h 45 min · Season 4 Episode 10Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:31 - Mexico City to Leningrad: a communist girlfriend, and a year of Russian 05:40 - Sliding modes at the source 10:38 - France: Ioan Landau, Laurent…
• ep47 - Tore Hägglund and José Luis Guzman: the art of PID control17 Aug 2026 · 1 h 42 min · Season 4 Episode 9Outline 00:00 - Intro 08:35 - What is PID control? 12:15 - The history: Minorsky, 1922, and steering ships 21:00 - The lambda method, IMC, and analytical tuning 28:45 - Set-point…
• ep46 - The fall of LTCM: Bachelier, Merton, and Black–Scholes ... when stochastic control met Wall Street15 Jul 2026 · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 8Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:25 - Bachelier and the Théorie de la Spéculation 03:05 - Stochastic processes, Brownian motion, and the heat equation 09:45 - Poincaré's verdict…
• ep45 - Peter Caines: from stochastic and adaptive control to mean field games, graphons, and beyond!15 Jun 2026 · 1 h 32 min · Season 4 Episode 7Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - London in the 1960s 12:40 - From Oxford to Imperial College: David Mayne and the discrete-time Riccati equation 18:05 - The "global tour"…
• ep44 - Mario di Bernardo: From Circuits to Cells and Swarms — Control meets Complexity15 May 2026 · 1 h 29 min · Season 4 Episode 6Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:30 - Origin story: Naples, electrical engineering, and the fascination with chaos 08:00 - What is chaos? 15:00 - DC-DC converters and…
• ep43 - Steve Brunton: DMD, Koopman, SINDy, Eigensteve Channel, HydroGym, Optimization, and much more15 Apr 2026 · 1 h 14 min · Season 4 Episode 5Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - Origin story: early path and the road to science 04:20 - On graphical visualization and aphantasia 08:08 - The interest in fluid dynamics 12:00…
• ep42 - inControl guide to ... the Nyquist criterion16 Mar 2026 · 1 h 9 min · Season 4 Episode 4Outline 00:00 – Intro 04:43 – Life and background 08:45 – Bell Labs 13:42 – Inventing the negative feedback amplifier 18:15 – Nyquist's landmark contributions 20:43 –…
• ep41 - A minimal history of optimal control16 Feb 2026 · 1 h 31 min · Season 4 Episode 3Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:55 - Brachistochrone problem 20:52 - Beginning of the calculus of variations 32:00 - Principle of least action 42:37 - Maximum principle 1:02:35…
• ep40 - Jeff Shamma: gain scheduling, nonlinear control, learning & dissipativity in games, jiu-jitsu15 Jan 2026 · 2 h 11 min · Season 4 Episode 2Outline 00:00 - Intro 03:18 - Early days: why control, M. Athans, and IDSS 12:21 - What is gain scheduling? 33:37 - Paradigm shifts & the ‘90s: Minnesota → Texas → LA 42:19…
• ep39 - Female influencers in control16 Dec 2025 · 1 h 6 min · Season 4 Episode 1Outline 00:00 - Intro 05:01 - Female Influencers in Control — The Backstory 08:08 - Sofya Kovalevskaya 15:21 - Irmgard Lotz 26:16 - A new wave of control influencers 34:26 - Some…
• ep38 - inControl guide to ... Feedback17 Nov 2025 · 1 h 25 min · Season 3 Episode 12Outline 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 –…
• ep37 - A. M. Lyapunov: The General Problem of Stability of Motion16 Oct 2025 · 1 h 24 min · Season 3 Episode 11Outline 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…
• ep36 - Markos Papageorgiou: Traffic Control — Theory and Practice15 Sep 2025 · 2 h 14 min · Season 3 Episode 10Outline 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…
• ep35 - Cosimo Della Santina: From Dexterous Manipulation to Soft Robotics and Embodied Intelligence15 Aug 2025 · 1 h 46 min · Season 3 Episode 9Outline 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 &…
• ep34 - inControl guide to ... Controllability & Observability17 Jul 2025 · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 8Outline 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…
• ep33 - Mathukumalli Vidyasagar: control synthesis, robotics, randomized algorithms, learning, compressed sensing, non-convex optimization16 Jun 2025 · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 7Outline 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…
• ep32 - Anders Rantzer: robust control, IQCs, nonlinear and hybrid systems, positivity and scalable control, adaptive control16 May 2025 · 1 h 30 min · Season 3 Episode 6Outline 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…
• ep31 - Miroslav Krstić: nonlinear adaptive control, PDEs, delays, extremum seeking, safety, neural operators for control15 Apr 2025 · 2 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 5Outline 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…
• ep30 - Manfred Morari: A pioneer’s journey through robust, predictive and computational control17 Feb 2025 · 1 h 46 min · Season 3 Episode 4Outline 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…