IFAC World Congress Special

<p>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!</p><p> </p><p>You can find the transcript for this episode at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XE4krcWk6KgQjUUtgxKejmsTBYTermPeL9e3uVOnRJQ/edit?usp=sharing" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XE4krcWk6KgQjUUtgxKejmsTBYTermPeL9e3uVOnRJQ/edit?usp=sharing</a></p><p> </p><p>Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/</a></p><p>Or connect with me directly: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/</a></p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p><strong>Workshops</strong></p><p>Arun Tangirala: <a href="https://arunkt-dev.github.io/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arunkt-dev.github.io/</a></p><p>Prem Jagadeesan: <a href="https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/prem-jagadeesan/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/prem-jagadeesan/</a></p><p>Paper on defining sloppiness: <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282609" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282609</a></p><p>Tom Oomen: <a href="https://toomen.eu/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://toomen.eu/</a></p><p><strong>Monday</strong></p><p>inControl podcast: <a href="https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/</a> </p><p>Selsabil Bougherara:  <a href="https://www.uphf.fr/lamih/membres/bougherara_selsabil" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.uphf.fr/lamih/membres/bougherara_selsabil</a></p><p>Shengya Meng: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengya-meng-1b299a294/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengya-meng-1b299a294/</a></p><p>Laura Albert: <a href="https://engineering.wisc.edu/directory/profile/laura-albert/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://engineering.wisc.edu/directory/profile/laura-albert/</a></p><p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p><p>Ying Tan: <a href="https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28203-ying-tan" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28203-ying-tan</a></p><p>Miroslav Krstic inControl interview: <a href="https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/16954129-ep31-miroslav-krstic-nonlinear-adaptive-control-pdes-delays-extremum-seeking-safety-neural-operators-for-control" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/16954129-ep31-miroslav-krstic-nonlinear-adaptive-control-pdes-delays-extremum-seeking-safety-neural-operators-for-control</a></p><p>ESC paper: <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4177053" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4177053</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p><p>Frank Park: <a href="https://me.snu.ac.kr/en/snu__professor/park-frank-chongwoo/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://me.snu.ac.kr/en/snu__professor/park-frank-chongwoo/</a></p><p>Talk on geometric methods for robot learning: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIKZzlomGIY" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIKZzlomGIY</a></p><p>Pritesh Patel: <a href="https://www.southampton