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    ep48 - Romeo Ortega: From sliding modes to adaptive, passivity-based and energy-shaping control

    2026/09/13 | 1h 45 mins.
    Outline
    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 Praly, and dynamic normalization
    16:25 - Continuity, robustness, and the Rohrs counterexamples
    24:18 - On Gerhard Kreisselmeier
    28:04 - Illinois and Mexico
    35:31 - Mark Spong, Twente, and passivity-based control
    46:32 - Energy shaping, damping injection, and total energy shaping
    49:50 - IDA-PBC, written on a napkin in a Paris café
    58:09 - Putting Energy Back in Control, Slotine, and the dissipation obstacle
    1:02:50 - Where good problems come from: knock on the practitioners' door
    1:06:23 - Immersion and invariance
    1:13:40 - Power shaping, Brayton and Moser, and shifted passivity
    1:19:29 - Power systems and going back to Russia
    1:27:23 - DREM: the adjugate trick that decouples parameter estimation
    1:31:11 - Sensorless observers
    1:34:44 - A seminar in Yakubovich's flat and on data-driven control
    1:41:47 - Advice to the next generation
    1:44:43 - Outro

    Links
    Romeo Ortega's website: https://facultad.itam.mx/facultad/romeo-ortega-martinez
    Utkin, "Variable structure systems with sliding modes": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1977.1101446
    Variable structure systems with chattering reduction: https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-1098(84)90076-1
    Robustness of discrete-time direct adaptive controllers (dynamic normalization): https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1985.1103890
    Robustness of adaptive controllers, a survey: https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-1098(89)90023-X
    Comments on the robust stability analysis of adaptive controllers using normalizations: https://doi.org/10.1109/9.28033
    Feuer & Morse, "Adaptive control of single-input single-output linear systems": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1978.1101822
    Rohrs, Valavani, Athans & Stein, "Robustness of continuous-time adaptive control algorithms in the presence of unmodeled dynamics": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1985.1104070
    Åström's commentary on the Rohrs et al. paper: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1985.1104066
    Hsu & Costa, "Bursting phenomena in continuous-time adaptive systems with a sigma-modification": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1987.1104440
    Karafyllis & Krstić, "Robust Adaptive Control: Deadzone-Adapted Disturbance Suppression": https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611978438
    Discrete-time model reference adaptive control using generalized sampled-data hold functions: https://doi.org/10.1109/9.50351
    Kreisselmeier, "The generation of adaptive law structures for globally convergent adaptive observers": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1979.1102066
    Gao, Bosso, Wang, Saussié & Yi, "Input-output data-driven stabilization of continuous-time linear MIMO systems": https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06524
    Adaptive motion control of rigid robots, a tutorial (where "passivity-based control" is coined): https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-1098(89)90054-X
    Takegaki & Arimoto, "A new feedback method for dynamic control of manipulators": https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3139651
    Torque regulation of induction motors: https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-1098(93)90059-3
    Passivity-based Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3603-3
    PID Passivity-Based Control of Nonlinear Systems with Applications: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119694199
    PID passivity-based control of port-Hamiltonian systems (all passive outputs): https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2017.2732283
    Energy-shaping of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems by interconnection: https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.1999.830260
    Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems (IFAC High Impact Paper Award 2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-1098(01)00278-3
    Putting energy back in control: https://doi.org/10.1109/37.915398
    Slotine, "Putting physics in control": https://doi.org/10.1109/37.9164
    Chang, Bloch, Leonard, Marsden & Woolsey, "The equivalence of controlled Lagrangian and controlled Hamiltonian systems": https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv:2002045
    The matching conditions of controlled Lagrangians and IDA-passivity based control: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207170210135939
    Control by interconnection and standard passivity-based control of port-Hamiltonian systems: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2008.2006930
    Ferguson & Borja, "Control-by-interconnection beyond Casimirs and connections to IDA-PBC": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2026.3661486
    Immersion and invariance, a new tool for stabilization and adaptive control of nonlinear systems: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2003.809820
    Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-066-7
    Brayton & Moser, "A theory of nonlinear networks I": https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/169746
    Power shaping, a new paradigm for stabilization of nonlinear RLC circuits: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2003.817918
    Passivity of nonlinear incremental systems: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.03.011
    Interconnection and damping assignment approach to control of PM synchronous motors: https://doi.org/10.1109/87.960344
    An energy-shaping approach to the design of excitation control of synchronous generators: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-1098(02)00177-2
    Transient stabilization of multimachine power systems with nontrivial transfer conductances: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2004.840477
    Conditions for stability of droop-controlled inverter-based microgrids: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2014.08.009
    A parameter estimation approach to state observation of nonlinear systems (PEBO): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2015.09.008
    Performance enhancement of parameter estimators via dynamic regressor extension and mixing (DREM): https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2016.2614889
    On modified parameter estimators for identification and adaptive control: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2020.06.002
    Generalized parameter estimation-based observers (GPEBO): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109635
    Sensorless control of surface-mount permanent-magnet synchronous motors: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2009.2025276
    A globally exponentially convergent sensorless observer for the IPMSM: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112138
    Willems, "The behavioral approach to open and interconnected systems": https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2007.906923
    Abramovich, Kuznetsov & Leonov, "V. A. Yakubovich, mathematician, father of the field": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.150
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    ep47 - Tore Hägglund and José Luis Guzman: the art of PID control

    2026/08/17 | 1h 42 mins.
    Outline
    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 weighting and two degrees of freedom
    32:50 - Automatic tuning and the relay feedback problem
    40:35 - The Lund school and Karl Johan Åström
    50:20 - PID is nearly optimal
    57:30 - PID tuning: the elephant in the room
    1:01:35 - Open problems and the one-third rule
    1:05:45 - Feedforward: the unsung hero
    1:15:00 - PID as a building block in large-scale control
    1:21:40 - Teaching, outsourcing, and lost knowledge
    1:28:15 - PID in the AI age
    1:32:25 - Microalgae and sustainable process control
    1:40:05 - Advice for young researchers and the future of PID

    Links
    Hägglund & Guzmán, "Give us PID controllers and we can control the world": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.018
    Minorsky, "Directional Stability of Automatically Steered Bodies": https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1922.tb04958.x
    Hazen, "Theory of Servo-Mechanisms": https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-0032(34)90254-4
    Ziegler & Nichols, "Optimum Settings for Automatic Controllers": https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4019264
    Dahlin, "Designing and Tuning Digital Controllers" (the lambda method): https://skoge.folk.ntnu.no/puublications_others/1968_Dahlin%20-%20Designing%20and%20tuning%20digital%20controllers.pdf
    Rivera, Morari & Skogestad, "Internal Model Control: PID Controller Design": https://skoge.folk.ntnu.no/publications/1986/Rivera86/Rivera86.pdf
    Åström & Hägglund, "Automatic Tuning of Simple Regulators": https://cse.lab.imtlucca.it/~bemporad/teaching/controllodigitale/pdf/Astrom-ACC89.pdf
    Hägglund & Åström, "Industrial Adaptive Controllers Based on Frequency Response Techniques": https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-1098(91)90052-4
    Åström & Hägglund, "The Future of PID Control": https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0661(01)00062-4
    Hägglund, "A Unified Discussion on Signal Filtering in PID Control": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.03.012
    Theorin & Hägglund, "Derivative Backoff: The Other Saturation Problem": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2015.06.008
    Hägglund, mid-ranging control (2021): https://skoge.folk.ntnu.no/puublications_others/apc-papers/midranging-control-vpc-hagglund-2020.pdf
    Guzmán & Hägglund, "Simple Tuning Rules for Feedforward Compensators": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2010.10.007
    Guzmán, Hägglund, Veronesi & Visioli, "Performance Indices for Feedforward Control": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2014.12.004
    Del Hoyo, Hägglund, Guzmán & Moreno: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2023.105636
    Pawlowski, Guzmán, Normey-Rico & Berenguel, "Improving Feedforward Disturbance Compensation in GPC": Improving feedforward disturbance compensation capabilities in Generalized Predictive Control
    Guzmán & Hägglund, "Feedforward Control: Analysis, Design, Tuning Rules, and Implementation": https://books.google.it/books/about/Feedforward_Control.html?id=f_C00AEACAAJ
    Normey-Rico & Guzmán, "Unified PID Tuning Approach for Dead-Time Processes": https://doi.org/10.3182/20120328-3-IT-3014.00006
    Soltesz & Cervin, "When Is PID a Good Choice?": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.06.074
    Grimholt, PID optimality: https://skoge.folk.ntnu.no/publications/thesis/2018_grimholt/phd-thesis-grimholt-2018.pdf
    Hägglund & Guzmán, "Development of Basic Process Control Structures": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.06.202
    Skogestad, "Advanced Control Using Decomposition and Simple Elements": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2023.100903
    Guzmán, Hägglund et al., "Understanding PID Design Through Interactive Tools": https://doi.org/10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.01328
    ISA-TR5.9-2023, "Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control Algorithms and Performance": https://www.isa.org/products/isa-tr5-9-2023-proportional-integral-derivative-pi
    Vilanova & Visioli, "PID Control in the Third Millennium": https://books.google.it/books/about/PID_Controllers.html?id=FsyhngEACAAJ
    Brian Douglas — control engineering education videos: https://engineeringmedia.com/videos
    A Practical Guide to PID Controller Implementation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15918
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    ep46 - The fall of LTCM: Bachelier, Merton, and Black–Scholes ... when stochastic control met Wall Street

    2026/07/15 | 1h
    Outline
    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, obscurity, and rediscovery
    13:50 - Robert C. Merton: from hot rods to MIT
    19:25 - Dynamic programming and Itô calculus
    24:35 - Merton's portfolio problem as stochastic optimal control
    31:10 - Options, dynamic hedging, and the Black–Scholes–Merton equation
    39:50 - LTCM: the dream team
    46:30 - August 1998: the crash
    49:00 - Fat tails and the ten-sigma defense
    51:40 - The ghosts of 2008 and echoes in the AI boom
    54:00 - Robustness embraced at last: Hansen and Sargent
    57:45 - Outro

    Links
    Bachelier's thesis, "Théorie de la Spéculation" (1900): https://www.numdam.org/item/10.24033/asens.476.pdf
    Courtault et al., "Louis Bachelier on the Centenary of Théorie de la Spéculation": https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9965.00098
    Merton's Nobel autobiography: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1997/merton/biographical/
    Merton's MIT "Infinite History" interview: https://infinite.mit.edu/video/robert-c-merton-phd-%E2%80%9970/
    Mandelbrot, "The Variation of Certain Speculative Prices": https://doi.org/10.1086/294632
    Merton, "Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model": https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(71)90038-X
    Moehle & Boyd, "A Certainty Equivalent Merton Problem": https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3111534
    Brigo & Mercurio, "Interest Rate Models: Theory and Practice": https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34604-3
    Armstrong, Brigo & Hanzon, "Optimal Projection Filters with Information Geometry": https://doi.org/10.1007/s41884-023-00108-x
    Hu & Zhou, "Constrained Stochastic LQ Control with Random Coefficients, and Application to Portfolio Selection": https://doi.org/10.1137/S0363012904441969
    Black & Scholes, "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities": https://doi.org/10.1086/260062
    Merton, "Theory of Rational Option Pricing": https://doi.org/10.2307/3003143
    Merton, "Option Pricing When Underlying Stock Returns Are Discontinuous": https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-405X(76)90022-2
    Scholes' Nobel lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1997/scholes/lecture/
    Merton's Nobel lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1997/merton/lecture/
    Markowitz, "Portfolio Selection": https://doi.org/10.2307/2975974
    Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Poker
    Edwards, "Hedge Funds and the Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management": https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.13.2.189
    Lowenstein, "When Genius Failed": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed
    Taleb, "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails": https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
    Taleb & West, "Working with Convex Responses: Antifragility from Finance to Oncology": https://doi.org/10.3390/e25020343
    Taleb, "The Black Swan": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_the_Highly_Improbable
    Taleb, "Fooled by Randomness": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness
    Man Group, "The AI Bubble: Hidden Risks and Opportunities": https://www.man.com/insights/the-ai-bubble
    Sen. Warren's remarks at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator: https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-remarks-at-vanderbilt-policy-accelerator-event-highlighting-economic-and-financial-risks-of-potential-ai-crash
    Meng & Chen, "Artificial Intelligence and Systemic Risk": https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03272
    Doyle, "Guaranteed Margins for LQG Regulators": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1978.1101791
    Safonov & Athans, "Gain and Phase Margin for Multiloop LQG Regulators": https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1977.1101470
    Hansen & Sargent, "Robust Control and Model Uncertainty": https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.2.60
    Hansen & Sargent, "Wanting Robustness in Macroeconomics": http://www.tomsargent.com/research/wanting.pdf
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    ep45 - Peter Caines: from stochastic and adaptive control to mean field games, graphons, and beyond!

    2026/06/15 | 1h 32 mins.
    Outline
    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": Montenegro roads, hitch-hiking to Istanbul, and the San Francisco waterfront
    22:30 - Feedback and causality between stochastic processes
    31:15 - The system identification years
    40:50 - Model complexity, the bias–variance trade-off, and concentration inequalities
    52:05 - Adaptive control: living through a golden era
    1:00:30 - McGill, George Zames, and CIFAR's "institute without walls," and COCOLOG
    1:09:45 - Mean field games: the China connection, the cell-phone problem, and Nash Certainty Equivalence
    1:20:15 - The Lasry–Lions simultaneous discovery
    1:24:40 - From graphons to graphexons: sparse networks, Laplexions, and geometry
    1:31:00 - Linear Stochastic Systems, Popper, and falsifiability
    1:35:20 - Advice to young researchers
    1:38:00 - Outro
    Links
    Peter Caines' website: https://www.mcgill.ca/cim/caines
    Linear Stochastic Systems: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611974713
      On the discrete-time matrix Riccati equation of optimal control: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207177008931892
    Feedback between stationary stochastic processes: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1975.1101008
    Prediction-error identification methods for stationary stochastic processes: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1976.1101304
    Asymptotic normality of prediction-error estimators for approximate system models: https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.1978.268066
    Discrete-time multivariable adaptive control (Axelby Award): https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1980.1102363
    Discrete-time stochastic adaptive control: https://doi.org/10.1137/0319052
    25 seminal control papers of the 20th century: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Control_Theory.html?id=eVhGAAAAYAAJ
    COCOLOG: A conditional observer and controller logic for finite machines: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/S0363012992226636
    Hierarchical hybrid control systems: https://doi.org/10.1109/9.664153
    On the hybrid optimal control problem: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4303244
    Bode Lecture: https://ieeecss.org/presentation/bode-lecture/mean-field-stochastic-control
    The cell-phone problem - Large population stochastic wireless power control: https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2003.1272542
    Large-population stochastic dynamic games - McKean-Vlasov and the Nash Certainty Equivalence principle: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/communications-in-information-and-systems/volume-6/issue-3/Large-population-stochastic-dynamic-games--closed-loop-McKean-Vlasov/cis/1183728987.full
    Large-population cost-coupled LQG with nonuniform agents and decentralized ε-Nash equilibria: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2007.904450
    Social optima in mean field LQG control: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2012.2183439
    ε-Nash mean field games with major and minor agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5684
    Graphon mean field games and their equations: https://doi.org/10.1137/20M136373X
    Mean field games on large sparse network limits - Laplexion dynamics on graphexons: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240589632500388X
    Murray Wonham oral history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IBZyRo0vDk
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    ep44 - Mario di Bernardo: From Circuits to Cells and Swarms — Control meets Complexity

    2026/05/15 | 1h 29 mins.
    Outline
    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 discontinuity-induced bifurcations
    22:00 - Piecewise-smooth dynamical systems
    26:55 - Complex networks, synchronization, and pinning control
    40:30- Synthetic biology: from gene regulatory networks to multicellular control
    58:00 - COVID-19: a network epidemic model for Italy
    1:02:00 - Multiscale control, statistical mechanics, and physics-informed control
    1:19:10 - State of the field and the IEEE CSS
    1:26:35 - Advice to young researchers
    1:29:00 - Outro

    Links
    Mario's website: https://sites.google.com/site/dibernardogroup/home
    Scuola Superiore Meridionale: https://www.ssm.unina.it/
    Chaos by James Gleick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science
    Control of chaos:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_chaos
    Erasmus programme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
    An Adaptive Approach to the Control and Synchronization of Continuous-time Chaotic Systems: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127496000254
    Piecewise-smooth Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-708-4 
    Bifurcations in nonsmooth dynamical systems: https://doi.org/10.1137/050625060 Controllability of complex networks via pinning:
    https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046103 
    Criteria for global pinning-controllability of complex networks: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2008.07.007
    Controllability of complex networks: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10011
    Controlling complex networks with complex nodes: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00566-3
    Analysis, design and implementation of a novel scheme for in-vivo control of synthetic gene regulatory networks: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2011.01.073
    In-vivo Real-time Control of Protein Expression from Endogenous and Synthetic Gene Networks: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003625
    A network model of Italy shows that intermittent regional strategies can alleviate the COVID-19 epidemic: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18827-5
    A Continuification-Based Control Solution for Large-Scale Shepherding: 
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04791
    Shepherding control and herdability in complex multiagent systems: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032012
    Nonreciprocal field theory for decision-making in multi-agent control systems: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63071-4

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