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Coffee and Control

Lucy Hodgins

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.

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  • S1 · E9
    Jul 1, 2025 · 56 min

    ECC Special (European Control Conference 2025)

    This episode is an ECC special, where I go on a trip to theEuropean control conference and bring you with me! Connect with me and with the podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ 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/ References (Cool people to go look up!) ECC25 web page: https://ecc25.euca-ecc.org/ Guido Carnevale: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/guido.carnevale/en Luca Furieri: https://www.lucafurieri.it/ René Vidal: http://vision.jhu.edu/rvidal.html Lisa Li: https://flyingpeach.github.io/ Victor Magron: https://homepages.laas.fr/vmagron/ Giacomo Como: https://www.control.lth.se/personnel-old/giacomo-como/ Venanzio Cichella (safe autonomous agents): https://engineering.uiowa.edu/directory/venanzio-cichella Maryam Kamgarpour: https://people.epfl.ch/maryam.kamgarpour?lang=en Miroslav Kristic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/ Iasson Karafyllis: https://semfe.ntua.gr/en/faculty-members/item/16-karafyllis Daniel Nikovski: https://www.merl.com/people/nikovski Rosane Ushirobira: https://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~ushirobira/ Michelle Chong: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/michelle-chong Timm Faulwasser: https://www.tuhh.de/ics/teampages/timm-faulwasser Seth Siriya: https://www.irt.uni-hannover.de/en/siriya Lorenzo Zino: https://lorenzozino90.wixsite.com/lzino François-Grégoire Bierwart (Koopman operators): https://researchportal.unamur.be/en/persons/fgbierwa Konstantin Zimenko (Finite-time stability analysis): https://dblp.org/pid/144/1527.html ABB: https://global.abb/ Massimiliano D’Angelo: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KrzPm2UAAAAJ&hl=it Yongduan Song (Neural network semi-plenary): https://accu.cqu.edu.cn/info/1112/3673.htm Niloufar Dabestani: https://www.trafficfluid.tuc.gr/en/people/phd-students/dabestani Antonella Ferrara: http://sisdin.unipv.it/labsisdin/people/ferant/ferant.php Maria Laura Delle Monache: https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/delle-monache Carlo Novara (MPC on quantum computers): https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=003528 Daniel Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson Stefano Stramigioli: https://people.utwente.nl/s.stramigioli Frank Allgower (Event-based control): https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/press/experts/Prof.-Frank-Allgoewer/

  • S1 · E8
    Jun 1, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

    Mathias Foo (River systems and biochemical control)

    In this episode I interview Dr Mathias Foo about his fascinating research on controlling river systems, implementing control systems using DNA, and gene network rewiring. Basically applying control to a bunch of different systems that you weren’t expecting. You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWRFK20bWm64k7MCghI82eJ3-FjTt3hK0VEpQ-VE0Og/edit?usp=sharing Connect with me and with the podcast! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ 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/ References Dr Mathias Foo: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/people/mathias_foo/ PhD PhD thesis: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=H5eLRq4AAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=H5eLRq4AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC Nadia Bedjaoui: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-bedjaoui-39862110/ Observers for leak detection in irrigation channels: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967066110001498 MPC using reverse engineering paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6114363 Maciejowski MPC book: https://www.amazon.com/Predictive-Control-Constraints-Jan-Maciejowski/dp/0201398230 Maciejowski inverse optimal control paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474667015366180 DNA strand displacement reactions Oishi and Klavins paper: https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/Oishi2011linear.pdf DNA amplifiers: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1148532 DNA Logic gates: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1132493 DNA Detectors: https://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Nucleation_DNA10.pdf PID control using DSD reactions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8721529 Nuno Paulino: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FKL-xegAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DNA programmable gate arrays: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06484-9 Theoretical DNA feedback paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/10/4/466 DNA stability paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109820303010 SSV DNA robustness paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8619072 Gomez-Uribe covalent modification cycle paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18159939/ Quasi sliding-model controller paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7833853 Design based on covalent modification cycle: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13036-016-0036-1 PI-degradation controllers: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/dgb/077972431.pdf Gene regulatory networks Voit S-system paper: https://doi.org/10.1042/bse0450029 Modelling and control using S-system models: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8254368 Extended S-system model for restoring circadian cycles: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41540-022-00216-x Uri Alon gene regulation paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg2102 Network re-wiring paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00037 Reverse-engineering Hill-type models paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsif.2024.0811 2009 Cell optimisation paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007120 Briat antithetic integral control paper: https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S2405-4712(16)00005-3 Professor Declan Bates: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/dgb/ Steve Brunton: https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve Control bootcamp series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-VpzgfQs5zrYi085m Physics-informed machine learning series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFW2uSd3Uo&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNQ0BaKuBKY43k4xMo6NSbBa Probability and statistics series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqniayndb4&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR3sNYvfgiKgcStwuPSts9V

  • S1 · E7
    May 1, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min

    Jonathan Mayo-Maldonado (Switched systems and DC networks)

    In this episode I interview Jonathan Mayo Maldonado about his work on applying the behavioural framework to modelling and controlling switched systems, as well as applying data-driven control to power systems! You can engage with the podcast on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffee_and_control_podcast/ Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ Or email me at lhodginscontrol@gmail.com Jonathan Mayo-Maldonado: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/668pbh/doctor-jonathan-mayo-maldonado PhD PhD thesis: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/383678/ Switched linear differential systems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.0308 Dissipative switched linear differential systems: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/386199/1/DissipativeSLDS-Rev5.pdf DC-DC converters Power shaping control: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344671509_Power_shaping_control_of_DC-DC_converters_with_constant_power_loads Paolo Rapisarda’s dissipativity paper: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/271668/1/PublishedArticle.pdf Lifted coordinates: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344800256_Nonlinear_Stabilizing_Control_Design_for_DC-DC_Converters_Using_Lifted_Models Episode with Chris on Non-minimum phase ILC: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hLqV5hv5OeQO3gOE6aU9c Direct voltage control of higher-order converters paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359245867_Direct_Output-Voltage_Control_of_Non-Minimum_Phase_Higher-Order_DC-DC_Converters Enrique Garza Arias PhD thesis: https://repositorio.tec.mx/items/6dfd5498-d0d4-417c-9e33-afb75930710a Data-driven control Active and reactive power analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_7XWf96gg Data-driven D-PMU paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339887346_Data-Driven_Framework_to_Model_Identification_Event_Detection_and_Topology_Change_Location_Using_D-PMUs Voltage performance index tracking paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10517964 Extra questions Advice from a young scientist to younger scientists article:https://medium.com/@jonathanmayo_75536/advice-from-a-young-scientist-to-younger-scientists-74d9aaf2d2f2 Arjan van der schafft: https://www.math.rug.nl/~arjan/index.html Johann Kolar: https://pes.ee.ethz.ch/the-institute/People/prof-kolar2.html Konstantinos Gatsis: https://kgatsis.github.io/

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