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3535| 4 | 09/12/2025 | ** External seminar 1** - Joaquim Dias Garcia| Dynamic Programming & Model-Predictive Control | |
3636| 5 | 09/19/2025 | Lecture - Guancheng "Ivan" Qiu | ** Nonlinear** trajectory ** optimization** ; collocation; implicit integration | |
3737| 6 | 09/26/2025 | ** External seminar 2** - Henrique Ferrolho | Trajectory ** optimization** on robots in Julia Robotics | |
38- | 7 | 10/03/2025 | Lecture - TBD | Essentials of PDEs for control engineers; weak forms; FEM/FDM review | |
38+ | 7 | 10/03/2025 | Lecture - TBD | Essentials of PDEs for control engineers; weak forms; FEM/FDM review; Hybrid control with classical PDE solvers | |
3939| 8 | 10/10/2025 | ** External seminar 3** TBD (speaker to be confirmed) | Topology ** optimization** | |
4040| 9 | 10/17/2025 | ** External seminar 4** — François Pacaud | GPU-accelerated optimal control | |
4141| 10 | 10/24/2025 | Lecture - Michael Klamkin | Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs): formulation & pitfalls | |
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4747#### Pool of additional topics
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49- If there are more students than slots, we will select from the following topics for recorded- lectures.
50- Students must provide materials equivalent to an in-person session.
49+ If there are more students than slots, we will select from the following topics for recorded lectures.
50+ Students must provide materials equivalent to those used in an in-person session.
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5252| # | Format / Presenter | Topic & Learning Goals | Prep / Key Resources |
5353| ---| --------------------| ------------------------| ----------------------|
54- | 15 | Lecture - TBD | Quaternions, Lie groups, and Lie algebras; attitude control; LQR with Attitude, Quadrotors | |
55- | 16 | Lecture - TBD | Contact Explict and Contact Implicit; Trajectory Optimization for Hybrid and Composed Systems; | |
56- | 16 | Lecture - TBD | Trajectory Optimization with Obstacles; Convexification of Non-Convex Constraints; | |
57- | 17 | Lecture - TBD | Robust control & min-max DDP (incl. PDE cases); chance constraints; Data-driven control & Model-Based RL-in-the-loop | |
54+ | 15 | Lecture - TBD | Quaternions, Lie groups, and Lie algebras; attitude control; LQR with Attitude, Quadrotors; | |
55+ | 16 | Lecture - TBD | Stochastic optimal control, Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG), Kalman filtering, robust control under uncertainty, unscented optimal control; | |
56+ | 17 | Lecture - TBD | Trajectory Optimization with Obstacles; Convexification of Non-Convex Constraints; | |
57+ | 18 | Lecture - TBD | Robust control & min-max DDP (incl. PDE cases); chance constraints; Data-driven control & Model-Based RL-in-the-loop | |
58+ | 19 | Lecture - TBD | Contact Explict and Contact Implicit; Trajectory Optimization for Hybrid and Composed Systems; | |
59+ | 20 | Lecture - TBD | Probabilistic Programming; Bayesian numerical methods; Variational Inference; probabilistic solvers for ODEs/PDEs; Bayesian optimization in control; | |
60+ | 21 | Lecture - TBD | Distributed optimal control & multi-agent coordination; Consensus, distributed MPC, and optimization over graphs (ADMM). | |
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