Coffee and Control (Lucy Hodgins)
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| 01 Apr 2025 | Paolo Rapisarda (Behavioural systems and Willems' fundamental lemma) | 00:59:39 | |
In this episode I talk to Professor Paolo Rapisarda about a bunch of interesting theoretical (but very useful) aspects of control, including his work on behavioural systems theory, model reduction, Willems’ fundamental lemma, and data-driven control. You can engage with the podcast on X: https://x.com/coffee_ctrl_pod BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffee_and_control_podcast/ Or email me at lhodginscontrol@gmail.com
Paolo Rapisarda: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x2hb9/professor-paolo-rapisarda
Introduction State maps for linear systems: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/264646/1/State_maps.pdf Harry Trentelman: https://research.rug.nl/en/persons/harry-trentelman Jan Willems: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/smc/jwillems/ PhD thesis: https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/linear-differential-systems-2
Behavioural systems Epic Jan Willems behavioural systems paper: https://skoge.folk.ntnu.no/prost/proceedings/cpc6-jan2002/willems.pdf
State maps LTV paper:https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/457114/1/State_for_linear_discrete_time_varying_systems.pdf Leibnitz rule: https://www.cuemath.com/calculus/leibniz-rule/
Dissipativity Jan Willem’s paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/bf00276493 Jan Willem’s optimal control paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1099831 Quadratic differential forms: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/S0363012996303062
Balancing Siep Weiland: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37301202100 Keith Glover: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/kg103 H-infinity model order reduction: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/701085 1980 Moore balancing paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1102568 Kalman decomposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_decomposition
Arjan van der Schaft: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=BIPifjAAAAAJ&hl=en Hamiltonian systems: https://www.unige.ch/~hairer/poly_geoint/week1.pdf Port Hamiltonianity:https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-control-081219-092250 Jacqueline Scherpen: https://research.rug.nl/en/persons/jacqueline-scherpen Balancing of Port-Hamiltonian systems: https://research.rug.nl/files/2999949/2003ProcIFACWorkshopLHMNCLopezlena.pdf Balancing for non-linear systems: https://research.rug.nl/files/3318296/1993ProcECCScherpen.pdf
Fundamental lemma Ivan Markovski: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qSl_3FQAAAAJ&hl=en Continuous-time work: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016769112400238X Chebychev polynomials: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ChebyshevPolynomialoftheFirstKind.html Kanat Camblibel: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aeWjKPcAAAAJ&hl=en Sufficient condition modification of Willems’s lemma: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18962 Experimental implementation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12509
Data-driven control Data-driven ILC:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10384133 DeePC: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05890 Jonathan Mayo-Maldonado: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=W-vnMBwAAAAJ&hl=en
Extra questions Aizerman’s conjecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizerman%27s_conjecture | |||
| 25 Oct 2024 | Coffee and Control trailer | 00:02:07 | |
Trailer for my new control-related podcast! Epsiodes will be released on the 1st of each month. You can check out inControl here: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ inControl episodes tend to be realeased during the middle of the month, so you could subscribe to both! (Please bear with me regarding the strange background noises and general awkwardness - I'm still learning how podcast making works!) | |||
| 01 Dec 2024 | Matthew Turner (Anti-windup and aircraft control) | 00:59:55 | |
In this episode we interview Professor Matthew Turner, professor in the Cyber Physical Systems group at the university of Southampton, about his fascinating work on aircraft control, anti-windup, Lur’e systems, and his recent research into applying techniques from control theory to the analysis of neural networks.
Contact me at: lgh1g19@soton.ac.uk We have an Instagram now! References:
Other cool neural network/ control papers | |||
| 02 Feb 2025 | William Holderbaum (Geometric control and electroactive matter) | 00:54:48 | |
In this episode, I talk to Professor William Holderbaum about some of the many fascinating areas of research he’s involved in, including Boolean control, geometric control, and control of electroactive polymer gels—plus a lot more! Follow us for updates on new episodes: PhD research
FES work
FES muscle fatigue papers
Geometric control
Control of RTG cranes Electroactive polymer gels | |||
| 01 Mar 2025 | Sabine Hauert (Swarm robotics and artificial evolution) | 00:54:48 | |
In this episode I interview Professor Sabine Hauert about the super interesting work she does on the control of swarm robots, how considering nanoparticles as swarms can be used to treat cancer, and how morphogenesis can generate structure from random interactions.
You can follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/coffee_and_control_podcast/),BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.social) and X(https://x.com/coffee_ctrl_pod)for updates on episodes! You can also connect with or follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Sabine: https://hauertlab.com/ Podcasts/ TEDx talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn1gmcs-HXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBbYuzhxpE0 http://youtube.com/watch?v=vvknnV6325Q
Robot Talk: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JWPnKQmwTQdM1K7247jkq Complexity: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nfcUpB3wesHqXP5XzSPAl Engenius: https://open.spotify.com/episode/34jert4EQGBVrQBfS4OfxW
Research Invertebrate inspiration review paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/acc223/meta Centipede control inspiration: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171421 David Garzon-Ramos: https://dgarzonramos.com/ Puzzle/ Problem/mess paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22478 Dario Floriano: https://people.epfl.ch/dario.floreano?lang=en Manuela Veloso: https://engineering.cmu.edu/directory/bios/veloso-manuela.html
PhD PhD thesis: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/dbb9fe40-930c-4e54-a5c0-10b62ebb6d1c Onboard evolution of swarm behaviours: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aisy.201900031 Supervisory control papers: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/229980063/Paper_SWARM2019.pdf MAP-elites algorithm: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-77538-8_49
Morphogenesis James Sharpe: https://www.embl.org/people/person/james-sharpe/ Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/scirobotics.aau9178 Controllability of morphogenesis: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/toward-controllable-morphogenesis-in-large-robot-swarms Controllability in control theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controllability Steve Brunton controllability Gramian video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHx62HbKNA Alan Turing reaction diffusion paper: https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf
Nanoswarms Sangita Bhatia: https://ki.mit.edu/people/faculty/sangeeta-bhatia Nanoswarm papers: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4295824/ John Ives: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jonathan-Ives-fa38de81-8d34-4978-a99d-1f55efe2e0f4/ Matimba Swana: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/matimba-c-swana
Outreach AIhub.org: https://aihub.org/ Robohub.org: https://robohub.org/ Drones for 3D printing buildings: https://robohub.org/five-ways-drones-will-change-the-way-buildings-are-designed/ AI environmental impact: https://aihub.org/2025/02/06/explained-generative-ais-environmental-impact/ AI for drug development: https://aihub.org/2025/01/09/will-ai-revolutionize-drug-development-researchers-explain-why-it-depends-on-how-its-used/
Extra questions Radhika Nagpal: https://www.radhikanagpal.org/ Dot robots: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.13809 | |||
| 08 Jan 2025 | Zehor Belkhatir (Fractional order modelling and cancer control) | 00:58:10 | |
In this episode I talk to Dr Zehor Belkhatir about her fascinating work using fractional order systems to model the brain, as well as how control can be used for chemotherapy treatment. You can follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, and X for updates on episodes! References
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| 01 Nov 2024 | Chris Freeman (Iterative learning control and stroke rehabilitation) | 00:50:32 | |
In this first episode, I talk to Chris Freeman, professor of applied control at the University of Southampton and expert on all things related to iterative learning control and its application in rehabilitation.
References:
People Chris worked with throughout his PhD: Rehabilitation robotics folks: Tremor suppression: Multiple model ILC: Electrode arrays: Biomedical contexts of ILC: EDI: Other projects: | |||