Control Seminar

Jan 29

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Safety Verification and Conflict Analysis for Connected Automated Vehicles

Feb 5

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Optimal Time Trajectory with Provable Safety for Connected and Automated Vehicles

Feb 12

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

CANCELED: An Approach to Shared Control for Automated Driving

Feb 19

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Moving Bionic Legs from the Lab to the Real World

Feb 26

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Deep Neural Networks, Universal Approximation, and Geometric Control

Mar 5

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

New Approaches to Distributed Hypothesis Testing and State Estimation in Large-Scale Networks

Mar 12

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Safe Real-World Autonomy in Uncertain and Unstructured Environments

Mar 19

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control Theory Meets Genetic Circuit Engineering

Mar 26

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Process Systems Optimization and Model Predictive Control

Apr 2

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Algorithmic Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Non-Convex Optimization to Perception and Control

Apr 9

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems

Apr 16

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control Co-Design: A Step Change in Active Engineering System Design Capability

Sep 10

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

CANCELED: Learning Models and Constraints with Limited Data

Sep 17

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Convergence Research Addressing Societal Challenges: The Central Role of Systems and Control

Sep 24

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

More Versatile Aerial Robots — Safer and Longer Flights

Oct 1

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Role for Systems and Control

Oct 8

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Learning to Price Demand in Safety-Critical Infrastructure Systems

Oct 15

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Reconstruction of Interconnectedness in Networks of Dynamical Systems Based on Passive and Partial Observations

Oct 22

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Safe Learning in Robotics

Oct 29

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Analysis of Policy Gradient Descent for Control: Global Optimality via Convex Parameterization

Nov 5

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Safe and Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Power System Control

Nov 12

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Speed–Robustness Trade-Off for Iterative Optimization Algorithms

Nov 19

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An Approach to Shared Control for Automated Driving

Dec 3

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

CANCELED: Control Engineering for Equity in Social Systems

Jan 14

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Learning Models and Constraints with Limited Data

Jan 21

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Optimal Estimation with Sensor Delay Yields Smith-like Predictor

Jan 28

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Generation of Wheel Lockup Attacks on Nonlinear Dynamics of Vehicle Traction

Feb 4

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

When can hybrid systems operate safely?

Feb 11

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Continuous-Time Channel Gain Control for Minimum-Information Kalman-Bucy Filtering

Feb 18

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Hierarchical Control for Cyber-Physical Systems and Applications to Traffic Management

Mar 11

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Analysis and Control of Functional Brain Networks

Mar 18

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Analysis of the Optimization Landscape of Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control

Mar 25

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Novel Regularization Techniques for Solving Practical Optimal Control Problems Using Indirect Optimization Methods

Apr 1

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Data-Driven Dynamic Ambiguity Sets: Precision Tradeoffs under Noisy Measurements

Apr 8

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Fast and Accurate Battery Biometrics: How to Get Them through Design of Testing?

Apr 15

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

A Holistic Approach to Lithium-Ion Battery Management System Design

Sep 9

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Identification, Prediction, and Control of Disruptions in Airline Networks

Sep 16

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Self-Powered Linear Feedback Control: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

Sep 23

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

A unifying, data-driven view of locomotion

Sep 30

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Battery Diagnostics and Prognostics

Oct 7

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The online convex optimization approach to control

Oct 14

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Why would one want a multi-agent system unstable

Oct 21

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

New Complexities in new Aviation: UTM, UAM, and RAM

Oct 28

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities for Ocean Wave Energy Conversion

Nov 4

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Understanding the Utility of Haptic Feedback in Telerobotic Devices

Nov 11

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control barrier functions and neural networks for handling risk and uncertainty in autonomous systems

Nov 18

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Motion in the Ocean – Revolutionizing Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting Through the Optimal Periodic Motion Control of Underwater Kites

Dec 2

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cancelled: Control seminar by Steve Brunton

Jan 13

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

A Dynamic Obfuscation Framework for Privacy and Utility

Jan 20

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cancelled: Systems modeling, analysis, and control of flow interactions to improve performance in aerodynamic systems

Jan 27

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Progress in Symmetry Preserving Robot Control

Feb 3

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

How Do We Learn to Use Learning in Manufacturing Systems

Feb 10

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Easy, hard or convex?: The role of sparsity and structure in control oriented machine learning

Feb 17

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Equitable Dynamic Systems Engineering

Mar 10

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control design based on deep learning

Mar 17

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Enabling a responsive grid with distributed load control and optimization

Mar 24

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Modeling and Stability Analysis of Epidemic Dynamics over Networks

Mar 31

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Sink or Swim: Control of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Apr 7

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Modelling, Dynamics and Control of Aggregate Loads

Sep 8

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Multi-fidelity Gaussian Processes for Human-Agent Teaming

Sep 15

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Bayesian learning of dynamical systems under uncertainty

Sep 22

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control co-design of Renewable Energy Harvesting Systems

Sep 29

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Set-Based Methods for Hierarchical Model Predictive Control and Beyond

Oct 6

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

(Cancelled) Safe Autonomy with Control Barrier Functions

Oct 13

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Are CMDPs Fundamentally Harder than MDPs?

Oct 20

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Formal Methods for Safety-Critical Control

Oct 27

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Energy maximizing control of wave energy systems – the COER way!

Nov 3

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Research problems of my life: Overview and advice for the inspired

Nov 10

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Hierarchical Optimization-Based Control for Agile and Adaptive Legged Robots

Nov 17

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Resilience in State Estimation and System Identification

Jan 19

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Optimal and Distributed Control in Animals

Jan 26

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics-Guided Data-Driven Modeling for Control in Additive Manufacturing

Feb 2

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI

Feb 9

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Flight testing active flutter control technology on a conventional configuration UAS

Feb 16

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Theoretical Foundation of Learning-based Planning for Linear Temporal Logic Objectives

Mar 8

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Advanced, Adaptive and Flexible Algorithms for Decentralized Optimization

Mar 15

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Surprising smoothness in common multi-contact collisions

Mar 22

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Grid Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: Aggregate Flexibility Quantification and Market Participation

Mar 29

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Leveraging Data and the Koopman Operator to Make Soft Robots More Capable

Apr 5

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Systems Integration Solutions for the Grid of the Future

Apr 12

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Low Gain Feedback for Linear Systems: Input Saturation and Input Delay

Apr 19

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Frontiers of Autonomous Space Systems: Navigating the Future of Exploration and Technology

Sep 6

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Robust Online Convex Optimization for Disturbance Rejection

Sep 13

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Enabling automatic building envelope retrofits using controls and machine learning

Sep 20

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Competence-aware Planning and Control

Sep 27

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Towards safe and resilient autonomy using synergistic control, observation and learning

Oct 4

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Learning-based Koopman modeling for efficient state estimation and control of nonlinear processes

Oct 11

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

What makes learning to control easy or hard?

Oct 18

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

2024 Nyquist Lecture: Battery State of Health Estimation from Manufacturing to End of Life

Oct 25

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Optimization-Based Control and Planning for Agile Legged Robots

Nov 1

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Regression Nash Equilibrium in Electricity markets

Nov 8

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Game-theoretic Control of Socio-technical Systems

Nov 15

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control Opportunities in Electrified Homes

Nov 22

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cybersecurity and Quantum Computation in Control of Cyberphysical Systems for Next-Generation Manufacturing

Dec 6

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The safe gradient flow: a system-theoretic approach to anytime constrained optimization through control barrier functions

Jan 17

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Designing Complex Systems Using Assume-Guarantee Contracts

Jan 24

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Learning-based Control for Large-scale Sustainable Energy Systems

Jan 31

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Smoothing-enabled Zeroth-order Schemes for Stochastic Optimization Problems: Addressing Stochasticity, Nonsmoothness, Nonconvexity, and Hierarchy.

Feb 7

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Accelerating Control Algorithms with Randomized Linear Algebra