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• Andy Lawrence (EPSRC grant funding)

  In this episode I sit down with Dr Andy Lawrence and learn all about the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), including his top tips on successful grant applications, advice for not getting discouraged by rejected submissions, how to build successful collaborations with industry, and a lot more besides! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FxscV2YjbfeI_u26ETkA25hMwGVmJojHdV5zj7J7wyE/edit?usp=sharingFollow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ReferencesAndy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-lawrence-7ab0361a/UKRI: https://www.ukri.org/EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/Standard mode open funding: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/standard-research/New investigator awards: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/new-investigator-award/Network grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/network-grants/Travel grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/international-funding/overseas-travel-grants/Program grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/programme-grants/ Lyapunov theory: https://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cds101/fa02/caltech/mls93-lyap.pdfKalman filtering: https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/https://kalmanfilter.net/Non-compressible haemorrhage funding call: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/novel-technology-for-intervening-in-non-compressible-haemorrhage/General multidisciplinary scheme: https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/ukri-cross-research-council-responsive-mode-pilot-scheme/ Details and support regarding EPSRC remit: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/epsrc-remit/UKRI funding service: https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/develop-your-application/how-applicants-use-the-ukri-funding-service/Peer review college: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-reviewers/peer-review-college/Nature-based engineering funding call: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-nature-based-engineering/UKRI remit agreement: https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/get-support-for-your-project/if-your-research-spans-different-disciplines/ Robotic mandibles project: https://www.ukri.org/news/copying-ants-could-help-robots-get-a-better-grip/  https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05364

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• Alberto Padoan: Part 2 (Distances between behaviours and inControl podcast)

  This episode features the second part of my interview with the fantastic Alberto Padoan! Featuring discussions of data-driven modelling in a geometric/ non-linear context, how to define distances in a behavioural systems setting, and the origin story of his podcast, inControl.You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/y67vmp Follow the podcast on linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcastOr connect with me personally: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/Alberto episode part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kwlnlQqtID1naRcyLL12OPaolo Rapisarda: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x2hb9/professor-paolo-rapisarda(Coffee and Control episode) https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6awPersistency of excitation for autonomous systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7902166Giordano Scarciotti: https://giordanoscarciotti.com/ Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfiAlessandro’s paper on moment matching: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5437314Almost periodicity: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/02/16/almost-periodic-functions/Examples of uses of polynomial matrices in behaviouralsystems context: https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/linear-differential-systems-2Conical, convex, and affine behaviours paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10383687Jan Willems behavioural systems paper: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/smc/jwillems/Articles/ConferenceArticles/2002/5.pdfEttore Fornasini: https://www.dei.unipd.it/~fornasini/Data-driven control Stuttgart: ⁠https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/Y3ytXoAutonomous e-scooter: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/oMiusDSoft robotics: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992740MPC control of covid outbreaks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136757882030078X?via%3DihubFlorian Dörfler: https://dorfler.ethz.ch/John Lygeros: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.john-lygeros.htmlJeremy Coulson:  https://jeremycoulson.github.io/ Keith Moffat: www.keithmoffat.comAlessandro Chuiso: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/alessandro-chiuso/Linear quadratic tracking paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7068299Ivan Markovsky: https://imarkovs.github.io/Distances between finite horizon behaviours: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11022752Uncertainty quantification in data-driven control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9993002 Split-as-a-pro: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.19411Yu Tang: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/yu-tangCarlo Cenedese: https://ee.ethz.ch/the-department/people-a-z/person-detail.Mjg0OTQz.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.htmlAlessio Rimoldi: https://github.com/AlessioRimoldiBehavioural uncertainty gap metric paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9993002Vidyasagar inControl episode (ep 33): https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/wfzcsiMalcolm Smith: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mcs1000Glenn Vinnicombe: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/gv103DeePC: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05890CDC/LSS paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22849Steve Brunton SVD series: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/isMaZSinControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ NCCR automation: https://nccr-automation.ch/Rudolf Kalman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1nJan Willems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Camiel_WillemsGeorge Zames: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_ZamesNorbert Weiner inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/7PQUfdRichard Bellman inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/XGgk11(Miroslav Kristic) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1RD07e(Tryphon Georgiou) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/mwpfwx(Mustafa Khammash) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/T0BsyS

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• Alberto Padoan: Part 1 (Moments of Systems and Model Reduction)

  In this episode I sit down with the wonderful Alberto Padoan and discuss his work on model order reduction and generalising concepts from linear systems to the non-linear setting.You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/IRMql9Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ReferencesinControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ Andrea Marson: https://andreamarson.com/bio/Master’s thesis: https://thesis.unipd.it/retrieve/82963fa4-bbb4-4577-9b83-b4e741a3ce20/main.pdfAlessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfiSandro Zampieri: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/old/people/zampieri.htmlinControl guide to Controllability and Observability: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/haKTheStieltjes:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joannes_Stieltjes PhD thesis: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/sImTiqKeith Glover: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/kg103Coffee and Control episode with Paolo Rapisarda: https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6awThesis on Krylov projectors for model reduction: https://perso.uclouvain.be/paul.vandooren/ThesisGrimme.pdfSylvester equations and model reduction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042703007143Book on Sylvester equations: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/e7nYSQJacqueline Scherpen: https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.m.a.scherpen/cv?lang=enAlberto Isidori: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/isidori/Murray Wonham book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1082-5Basile and Marro book: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/gE3KxH Eigenvalues/ poles of nonlinear systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264032Books on creativity:Ernest Hemmingway quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_HemingwayDynamics of Creation (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamics-Creation-Anthony-Storr/dp/0345376730)explores how creativity helps resolve inner conflict.Moment matching at singularities:(Complex analytic) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896317314957(Geometric) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264369Moments of random variables: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8637762Klein bottle videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsICMPwGPYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLUDistributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(differential_geometry)https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~ban00101/anman2009/lecture2.pdfhttp://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~wangzuoq/Courses/18F-Manifolds/Notes/Lec15.pdfAndrás Sasfi: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.andras-sasfi.htmlModel reduction of dominant systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109821002156Rodolphe Sepulchre: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rs771(inControl episode) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1cOrwp(Paper on spiking systems) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9764708Fulvio Forni: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/ff286Goldbeter model: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9016794/Goodwin model: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23936338/Dominance margins: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896319318671Early papers on dominance: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06155 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01721Intro to Nyquist diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sof3meN96MA John Doyle:(inControl interviews) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/BTj37khttps://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/k0PXanGioele Zardini: https://gioele.science/Alberto San Giovanni Vincentelli: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sangiovanni-vicentelli.html(inControl interviews)https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/9fYOiBhttps://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/ehkaV9

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• Ying Shuai Quan (Model Predictive Control and Autonomous Driving)

  In this episode I sit down with Dr Ying Shuai Quan and getexcited about her work on adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems, with particular focus on applying model predictive control. Features deep-dives into various aspects of MPC, with occasional offshoots into other cool areas of control! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufp57VuzymcEivN3lzMaHVKgH8LgqI9BZDzgmdz2pug/edit?usp=sharingFollow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/Or you can connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References/ cool papers to learn moreYing’s thesis: https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/188296Tube-based adaptive cruise control paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992382Motion sickness patents: (general system) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250115255A1/en(control and estimation) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250128715A1/enTutorial on IQCs: https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84979771505Classic LMI book: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/lmibook/lmibook.pdfLMIs in control book chapter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-84800-025-4_4Steve Brunton MPC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwodGM2eoy4&t=1sGreat review/ tutorial paper on MPC: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-021-07682-3Review on linear fractional transformations: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/261572Ying’s control-barrier functions paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10130631Tutorial paper on CBFs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10836828Review on control barrier functions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10836828Using CBFs in MPC: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08400Control Lyapunov-barrier function-based MPC: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8431468High-order CBFs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9516971Neural network lane-keeping paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8859955Robust stability of NN-based LKS: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10644841Matt Turner episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KLLOvbCjOkL0v8iXo84vtTranscript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r41Lcpv4MtxnqfMn8ZFfnAqiK5rlfcPZ19NQhfeqaFI/edit?usp=sharingMultiple model switched adaptive control: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/72334/Examples of systems with unknown input delays:(Connected platoons) https://ieeexplore-ieee-org/document/9530266 (Glucose control in diabetes) https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85192198866(Spacecraft control) https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84947032651Min-max MPC for non-linear systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0947358009707034PCA: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-analysis/principal-component-analysis-pca/LPV gain-scheduling control with parameter reduction: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9830128Safe MPC using constraint softening: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15373 Application to autonomous driving: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05933 Robust and Stochastic MPC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367578816300098Stochastic MPC review: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7740982Polynomial chaos in non-linear stochastic MPC: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6858851Polynomial chaos overview: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6595094Melanie Zeilinger: https://idsc.ethz.ch/the-institute/people/person-detail.html?persid=142737Safe learning-based control talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBK1CNuU66c&t=572sControl meets learning seminar series: https://sites.google.com/view/control-meets-learning/home

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• 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 podcastLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/X: https://x.com/coffee_ctrl_podBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.socialInstagram: 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/enLuca Furieri: https://www.lucafurieri.it/René Vidal: http://vision.jhu.edu/rvidal.htmlLisa 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-cichellaMaryam Kamgarpour: https://people.epfl.ch/maryam.kamgarpour?lang=enMiroslav Kristic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/Iasson Karafyllis: https://semfe.ntua.gr/en/faculty-members/item/16-karafyllisDaniel Nikovski: https://www.merl.com/people/nikovskiRosane Ushirobira: https://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~ushirobira/Michelle Chong: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/michelle-chongTimm Faulwasser: https://www.tuhh.de/ics/teampages/timm-faulwasserSeth Siriya: https://www.irt.uni-hannover.de/en/siriyaLorenzo Zino: https://lorenzozino90.wixsite.com/lzinoFrançois-Grégoire Bierwart (Koopman operators): https://researchportal.unamur.be/en/persons/fgbierwaKonstantin Zimenko (Finite-time stability analysis): https://dblp.org/pid/144/1527.htmlABB: https://global.abb/ Massimiliano D’Angelo: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KrzPm2UAAAAJ&hl=itYongduan Song (Neural network semi-plenary): https://accu.cqu.edu.cn/info/1112/3673.htmNiloufar Dabestani: https://www.trafficfluid.tuc.gr/en/people/phd-students/dabestaniAntonella Ferrara: http://sisdin.unipv.it/labsisdin/people/ferant/ferant.phpMaria Laura Delle Monache: https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/delle-monacheCarlo Novara (MPC on quantum computers): https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=003528Daniel Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobsonStefano Stramigioli: https://people.utwente.nl/s.stramigioliFrank Allgower (Event-based control): https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/press/experts/Prof.-Frank-Allgoewer/

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