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.

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Alberto episode part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kwlnlQqtID1naRcyLL12O

Paolo Rapisarda: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x2hb9/professor-paolo-rapisarda

(Coffee and Control episode) https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw

Persistency of excitation for autonomous systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7902166

Giordano Scarciotti: https://giordanoscarciotti.com/

Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi

Alessandro’s paper on moment matching: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5437314

Almost 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-2

Conical, convex, and affine behaviours paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10383687

Jan Willems behavioural systems paper: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/smc/jwillems/Articles/ConferenceArticles/2002/5.pdf

Ettore 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%3Dihub

Florian Dörfler: https://dorfler.ethz.ch/

John Lygeros: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.john-lygeros.html

Jeremy 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=7068299

Ivan Markovsky: https://imarkovs.github.io/

Distances between finite horizon behaviours: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11022752

Uncertainty quantification in data-driven control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9993002

Split-as-a-pro: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.19411

Yu Tang: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/yu-tang

Carlo Cenedese: https://ee.ethz.ch/the-department/people-a-z/person-detail.Mjg0OTQz.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.html

Alessio Rimoldi: https://github.com/AlessioRimoldi

Behavioural uncertainty gap metric paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9993002

Vidyasagar inControl episode (ep 33): https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/wfzcsi

Malcolm Smith: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mcs1000Glenn Vinnicombe: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/gv103
DeePC: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05890

CDC/LSS paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22849

Steve Brunton SVD series: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/isMaZS

inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/

NCCR automation: https://nccr-automation.ch/

Rudolf Kalman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n

Jan Willems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Camiel_Willems

George Zames: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zames

Norbert 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