Outline

00:00 – Intro

00:51 – Early steps in research

09:55 – Historical overview of traffic control

25:20 – What is traffic?

34:06 – Road traffic control

45:37 – PI control of road junctions

58:19 – From macroscopic to microscopic simulations and back

1:10:08 – Dynamic traffic assignment

1:21:28 – Return to Greece

1:28:33 – The optimal control problem

1:41:48 – Traffic estimation

1:47:34 – The impact of automation and connectivity

1:59:20 – Traffic as an artificial fluid

2:07:51 – The future of traffic control

2:10:48 – Advice to future students

2:13:53 – Outro

Link

Homepage: https://tinyurl.com/yw7kee97

CSS day lecture: https://tinyurl.com/46vua4r7

Monograph - Applications of Automatic Control Concepts to Traffic Flow Modeling and Control: https://tinyurl.com/5czax788

Review of road traffic control strategies: https://tinyurl.com/48u235pw

ALINEA: https://tinyurl.com/bdtvny87

METANET: https://tinyurl.com/3h9xv48t

AIMSUM:https://tinyurl.com/mr2xkryj

AMOC: https://tinyurl.com/3v2xysr2

HERO: https://tinyurl.com/yzn6vkwh

Real-time freeway traffic state estimation based on extended Kalman filter: a general approach: https://tinyurl.com/2ubsh7cy

TRAMAN: https://tinyurl.com/ypr65cfa

Coordinated and integrated control of motorway networks via non-linear optimal control: https://tinyurl.com/3v2xysr2

Motorway traffic flow modelling, estimation and control with vehicle automation and communication systems: https://tinyurl.com/49679hy8

From road congestion to vehicle-control enabled artificial traffic fluids: https://tinyurl.com/pk4j8htp

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Outline
00:00 – Intro
01:19 – Early steps: PhD journey & robotic hands
15:42 – What is a soft robot?
23:35 – MIT years & models of soft robots
30:01 – Discretization & underactuation
37:21 – The regulation problem
47:01 – Pros and cons of soft robots
51:42 – The soft inverted pendulum
1:05:27 – Eigenmanifolds
1:15:22 – Physical intelligence
1:26:09 – On machine learning
1:37:49 – Embodied AI & TC on Robot Control
1:44:50 – Advice to future students

Links
- Cosimo’s website: https://tinyurl.com/mt37597k
- Piaggio Center: https://tinyurl.com/muryjw5h
- Pisa Robotic Hand: https://tinyurl.com/4ujtec59
- Model-Based Dynamic Controller for a Planar Soft Robot: https://tinyurl.com/5a8fv3c8
- Soft Robot definition (Encyclopaedia of Robotics): https://tinyurl.com/3y2jz987
- Isidori’s book: https://tinyurl.com/42254hav
- CSM magazine paper: https://tinyurl.com/bd54an6x
- Cosserat rod theory: https://tinyurl.com/zu73nadx
- Strain function: https://tinyurl.com/y8v63ue2
- Zero dynamics: https://tinyurl.com/2ezarn5e
- The soft inverted pendulum: https://tinyurl.com/y4bzkkup
- Templates and anchors: https://tinyurl.com/2957w6sz
- Exciting Efficient Oscillations Through Eigenmanifold Stabilisation: https://tinyurl.com/yc3586y5
- When Do Lyapunov Subcentre Manifolds Become Eigenmanifolds?: https://tinyurl.com/5tckw7xe
- Passive walker: https://tinyurl.com/yjwwapv5
- Strandbeests: https://tinyurl.com/494mfccu
- Physical control: https://tinyurl.com/bdddb6ur
- Morphological computation: https://tinyurl.com/an6vaahx
- The Playful Machine: https://tinyurl.com/5525xys2

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Acknowledgments and sponsors
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Outline

00:00 - Intro
01:06 - The big idea
03:42 - Controllability, observability, and ... the space race!
14:52 - Kálmán and the state-space paradigm
00:00 - The math and intuition: state-space basics, definitions, and duality
00:00 - A touch of nonlinearity
00:00 - Developments in the field: a chronological tour
00:00 - Controllability and observability: quo vaditis?
00:00 - Outro

Links
Kálmán: https://tinyurl.com/bdzj7mtr
Controllability: https://tinyurl.com/28s5zxpn
Observability: https://tinyurl.com/yjxncxdn
Paper - "Contributions to the theory of optimal control": https://tinyurl.com/9wwf8pvh
Paper - "Discovery and Invention": https://tinyurl.com/ryfn463n
Kálmán's speech - Kyoto Prize : https://tinyurl.com/2ahrjdah
Paper - Controllability of complex networks: https://tinyurl.com/3zk99n4s

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Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.