CONTROL 2026 (ACE Network/ UKACC Conference Special)

In this episode I have the pleasure of attending the CONTROL2026 conference, and bring you along with me! This conference was the largest gatheringof control engineers in the UK recent years, co-organized by the ACE network and UK Automatic Control Council (UKACC). Join me as I explore the ACE network and some of the fabulous control engineering research taking place across theUK!

Join the ACE network!: ⁠https://ukcontrol.org/join-ace

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References

Control 2026: https://control2026.ukcontrol.org/

Conference proceedings: https://control2026.ukcontrol.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Control-2026-Proceedings-Booklet.pdf

ACE network: https://ukcontrol.org/

UKACC: https://ukacc.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/

IFAC: https://www.ifac-control.org/

Pramod Khargonekar: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/khargonekar/

Slides from his talk: https://coffeecontrollinks.short.gy/yaf5rk

Norbert Weiner: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norbert-Wiener

Automony vs automation: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01004-z

InControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/11513053-ep6-norbert-wiener-and-cybernetics

Macy Conference proceedings: http://cybernetic-bookshelf.org:8083/book/2636Dartmouth conference: https://opendigitalai.org/en/the-dartmouth-conference-1956-the-big-bang-of-ai/

John McCarthy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCarthy

Daniel Coca: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/staff/profile/danielcoca.html

EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/

Interview with Andy Lawrence: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BvPXw3YyoqdsvbQ573OF1

William Heath: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/scse/william-heath-680178/en

Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi

Antonis Papachristodoulou: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/antonis-papachristodoulou

Stephen Duncan: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-stephen-duncan/

Francesca Boem: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/f.boem

EDI survey: https://coffeecontrollinks.short.gy/ahijky

Mentorship scheme sign-up form: https://ukcontrol.org/ace-network-mentor-scheme

ACE position paper: https://ukcontrol.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ACE-Position-Paper.pdf

Network + survey: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yRJQnBa2wkSpF2aBT74-hyrBNzE3vqFAgmzn8RVGrRVUM1pNMEZFREExUTBJQ1dRUkJTNFRGNEJPVi4u&route=shorturl

Claude shutdown: https://www.ithinkdiff.com/claude-fable-5-disabled-us-government/

Brian Douglas podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yUF9sf0cM2K9AeoQzoHal

Chao Gu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chao-gu-609073220/

Petri nets: http://www.petri-net.de/

AEGEAN: https://en.about.aegeanair.com/company/fleet/

Liam Hallinan: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LmZyKIIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Salma Iraky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salmassabry/

TERRA github: https://github.com/sssabry/tera

Anton Selivanov: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anton-Selivanov

Allan Nascimento (Multi-horizon MPC author): https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/author/867072138905292

Miroslav Krstic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/

Neural operators: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08481

Mohammad Adballah: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/meme/staff/phd/mohammad-abdallah/

Luke Rickard: https://www.lukerickard.co.uk/

Will Rohde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wfmrohde/

Dan Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson

Anthony Rossiter: https://ieeecss.org/contact/anthony-rossiter

Control101 toolbox: https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/130439-control-101-toolbox