IFAC World Congress Special

In this episode I take you with me to the 2026 IFAC World Congress in Busan, South Korea, where I got to talk to a bunch of wonderful control researchers about their work. We cover a wide range of fascinating research areas, including observer design for transportation, event-triggered control, consensus control, extremum-seeking, robotic manipulation, control education and outreach, and a whole lot more!

You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XE4krcWk6KgQjUUtgxKejmsTBYTermPeL9e3uVOnRJQ/edit?usp=sharing

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References

Workshops

Arun Tangirala: https://arunkt-dev.github.io/

Prem Jagadeesan: https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/prem-jagadeesan/

Paper on defining sloppiness: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282609

Tom Oomen: https://toomen.eu/

Monday

inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/

Selsabil Bougherara:  https://www.uphf.fr/lamih/membres/bougherara_selsabil

Shengya Meng: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengya-meng-1b299a294/

Laura Albert: https://engineering.wisc.edu/directory/profile/laura-albert/

Tuesday

Ying Tan: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28203-ying-tan

Miroslav Krstic inControl interview: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/16954129-ep31-miroslav-krstic-nonlinear-adaptive-control-pdes-delays-extremum-seeking-safety-neural-operators-for-control

ESC paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4177053

Wednesday

Frank Park: https://me.snu.ac.kr/en/snu__professor/park-frank-chongwoo/

Talk on geometric methods for robot learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIKZzlomGIY

Pritesh Patel: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/667tf7/doctor-pritesh-patel

Paper on stability of adaptive control of switched systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751570X25000457

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

Nikwist: https://www.nikwist.be/

David Tinoco: https://dtinas10.github.io/homepage/

Quantum control podcast episodes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5t577mI6iCh6ypd40nMxBQ

https://open.spotify.com/episode/31XLcllhy4XK7gQ9NnDGfz

Olaf Stursberg:  https://www.uni-kassel.de/eecs/en/sections/control-and-system-theory/team/prof-stursberg.html

Sudhanshu Shekhar: https://www.iitk.ac.in/sudhanshu-shekhar

Sonia Martinez: http://muro.ucsd.edu/sonia/

Overview of coverage control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13890

Paper on optimal transport: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8619816

ThursdayArkadeep Saha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkadeep-saha-1b1a84252/

Steve Brunton SINDy videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCa78TIldg

Open source soft robotic platform: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5609765

https://github.com/ReshapeTUe/Soft-Legged-Wheel-Testbed

Nicolás Faedo: https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=nicolas.faedo

Emilia Fushimi: http://www.gca.ing.unlp.edu.ar/?q=fushimi

Tore Gude: https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/tore.gude

Friday

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

Cristina Stoica: https://l2s.centralesupelec.fr/en/u/stoica-cristina/

IFAC youTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ifacyoutube3132

OosCar non-linear control video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaOk003CiqA

Art and control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awx-LOdbNH8

Rebecca Thien: https://l2s.centralesupelec.fr/en/u/thien-rebbecca-tze-yean/Kuberknots podcast: https://kuberknots.com/

IET travel support: https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-prizes-and-scholarships/travel-awards