Control Seminar

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

Feb 14

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Set-theoretic Methods for Verification of Closed-loop Systems, Motion Planning, and Energy-aware Autonomy

Feb 21

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Data as models? A closer look at data-driven control systems.

Mar 14

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Metric Regularity and Its Role in the Systems Theory of Nonlinear Optimization

Mar 21

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Some fundamental limitations of learning for dynamics and control

Mar 28

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

A Topological Approach For Data Assimilation (TADA)

Apr 4

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Control and system design of wave energy converters

Apr 11

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Sensing the Unseen: Dexterous Tool Manipulation Through Touch and Vision