Carmen Amo Alonso: Part 1 (Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control)

In this episode I talk to the very wonderful Carmen Amo Alonso about her (award-winning) PhD research on distributed and localised MPC. We also cover super interesting and useful concepts such as system-level synthesis and ADMM, as well as her internship working at Tesla!

You can access the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SErvHtKoE18QzelHDUh9im6AeG3zKPWZLRoNGx5BUyg/edit?usp=sharing

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References

Carmen: https://camoalon.github.io/

JPL: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

John Doyle: https://ieeecss.org/contact/john-doyle

Feedback in biological control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9867859

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9867794

Thesis: https://thesis.caltech.edu/15262/3/Carmen_Amo_Alonso_Caltech_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Distributed localised MPC paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9939038

Professor Melanie Zeilinger: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/melanie-zeilinger-0

SLS for robust nonlinear optimal control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04943

Professor Nikolai Matni: https://nikolaimatni.github.io/

System-level synthesis tutorial: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01634

YouTube videos on DLMPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2Wbriy2Zg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhtuGZp8QM0&t=302s

ADMM survey paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03700

Professor James Anderson: https://www.columbia.edu/~ja3451/

Data-driven DLMCP: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9772975

Willems fundamental lemma: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/262195/1/PersistencyExcitation.pdf

Paolo Rapisarda episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw

Implementing DLMP on GPUs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9831839

Clubes de Ciencia: Mexico: https://clubesdeciencia.mx/

Peru: https://clubesdecienciaperu.org/

Terry Sejnowski: https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/tsejnowski