A definition of intelligence is not in sight. But, for sure, designing intelligent machines is a key driver of technology, and understanding the working of animal intelligence is a key driver of science. There is no doubt that feedback and uncertainty play a role in the problem, providing splendid control questions for high-techs and scientists alike.

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This issue of IEEE Control Systems includes two feature articles and one “Applications of Control” column article. The first feature article, “Microscale 2D Particle Position Control,” is authored by Ion Matei, Maksym Zhenirovskyy, Johan de Kleer, and Anne Plochowietz [A1] . The authors have designed a method for moving small objects immersed in a dielectric fluid, using an array of thousands of electrodes

Quite a bit has already been written about how we, as a controls community, should respond to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and how our tools, models, and techniques should best be deployed alongside data-driven, machine learning (ML) algorithms. From safe learning and formal verification of neural networks to data-driven control, we have seen several interesting and fruitful new venues

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Many control objectives can be expressed in terms of a criterion function. Generally, explicit solutions to such optimization problems require full knowledge of the plant and disturbances, and complete freedom in the complexity of the controller. In practice, the plant and the disturbances are seldom known, and it is often desirable to achieve the best possible performance with a controller of prescribed

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The contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Observing the virus spreading rapidly to other countries across the world led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and to characterize the outbreak

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems , we speak with Cristina Stoica, a professor at CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S), Université Paris-Saclay, France; Samer S. Saab, a professor of electrical engineering at Lebanese American University (LAU), Byblos, Lebanon; and Umit Ozguner, emeritus professor at The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, OH, USA.

Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

Our goal is to design and build a printer-like system for assembling microparticles into engineered patterns. The assembly into desired patterns is based on feedback control that tracks the particles and makes corrections to the particle positions until the desired pattern is achieved (see “Summary” and “Xerography for Microelectronics” for more details on xerography and assembly for microelectronics)

The field of aerial robotics is growing rapidly, along with the promise of assisting human operators with tasks that are hazardous, inaccessible, or time consuming [1] . Military and law enforcement organizations are especially interested in such capabilities due to the naturally hazardous nature of their missions, driving them to become early supporters and adopters. A particularly challenging mission

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems , we speak with Ingvar Ziemann, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, and Anthony Thompson, a senior researcher at the John’s Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Q. How would you pitch your Ph.D. dissertation in one paragraph?

Q. How would you pitch your Ph.D. dissertation in one paragraph?

Rio de Janeiro is a well-known, international tourist destination, and its charms also attract visitors to its many reputed institutions, among them the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Within the university, the Graduate School of Engineering (COPPE), which is composed of 13 graduate engineering programs, is a center of excellence in engineering. The Control, Automation, and Robotics (CAR)

The review of this book is centered on the sheer quality and profoundness with which the author guides a reader through all aspects of solving a general optimal control problem numerically. The basis of the methodology is nonlinear programming, and when traversing the book, the author makes it abundantly clear that optimal control is inextricably bound to nonlinear programming. In fact, the connection

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Recounts the career and contributions of Roger Ware Brockett.

One day, as a wind started blowing, the oak tree, as usual, said mockingly “Oh! Reeds you move to and fro even with the slightest breeze.” The reeds kept quiet and continued to sway back and forth. “Look at me. I am so strong and mighty. Nothing can uproot me or bend me” boasted the oak tree.

This issue of IEEE Control Systems is devoted to soft robotics. The guest editor for this special issue is Helmut Hauser. He has assembled four articles for this special issue: see [A1] , by Cosimo Della Santina, Christian Duriez, and Daniela Rus; [A2] , by Concepcion A. Monje, Bastian Deutschmann, Jorge Muñoz, Christian Ott, and Carlos Balaguer; [A3] , by Cecilia Laschi, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya

At my university, University of California, Irvine (UCI), we have started talking about “inreach” as a companion to the established notion of “outreach.” This small change in narrative has led to a surprisingly powerful set of changes in how we operate as an academic unit. As part of this “President’s Message,” I am including a recent article, coauthored with Marvin Maldonado, the director for inreach

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Automatic control covers a wide range of topics from mathematics to processes and computers. A good control engineer must master a wide variety of concepts, techniques and ideas. In addition, he or she must be able to apply them to real industrial problems. Typical tasks include mathematical modeling, analysis, simulation, design and implementation. The ability to solve these problems rests heavily

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In this issue of IEEE Control Systems , we speak with Meeko Oishi, a professor and regents’ lecturer at the University of New Mexico (UNM); Dr. Niklas Karlsson, senior principal research scientist at Amazon, where he is driving the science vision for the Amazon Demand Side Platform; and Hector Ramirez, an assistant professor at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in Chile.

Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

Q. How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

Soft robotics is a new and fast-growing field of robotics [1] , [2] . It proposes to extend conventional robotics by going beyond the default building blocks, that is, rigid body parts and high-torque servo motors. Soft robotics also uses soft materials like silicone, hydrogels, and polymers. It also includes a wide range of smart materials that are able to change physical properties when stimulated

From a functional standpoint, classic robots are not at all similar to biological systems. If compared with rigid robots, animals’ bodies look overly redundant, imprecise, and weak. Nevertheless, animals can still perform a vast range of activities with unmatched effectiveness. Many studies in biomechanics have pointed to the elastic and compliant nature of the musculoskeletal system as a fundamental

Continuum soft robots are made up of soft material components (referred to as continuum), rigid components, actuators, and sensors. By structurally deforming the continuum, a motion of the entire system is initiated. To capture the interaction of the actuators on the soft material deformation and the corresponding sensor readings, mathematical models involving geometrical, material, and inertia parameters

In the last few decades, soft robotics technologies have challenged conventional approaches by introducing new, compliant bodies to the world of rigid robots. These technologies and systems may enable a wide range of applications, including human–robot interaction and dealing with complex environments. Soft bodies can adapt their shape to contact surfaces, distribute stress over a larger area, and

Traditional robot designs typically employ rigid body parts and high-torque servo motors. This helps to obtain simple reproducible models and, therefore, to facilitate control. Soft robotics is a new research field that deliberately expands the design toolbox to a wide range of smart and, often, soft materials. This approach is generally inspired by the remarkable performance of biological systems

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems , we speak with Anastisia Bizyaeva, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, and Jeremy Coulson, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

Q. How would you pitch your Ph.D. dissertation in one paragraph?

Q. How would you pitch your Ph.D. dissertation in one paragraph?

Lund is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the strait from Copenhagen, Denmark. Archeologists date the foundation of Lund to around 990, when the area was part of Denmark. Lund University was founded in 1666 and is one of Scandinavia’s oldest and largest institutions for education and research. It is consistently the most popular choice in Sweden for international degree students

Presents reviews for the following list of books, Six Degrees of Freedom: Opportunities Met, Risks Taken, Lessons Learned.

Presents reviews for the following list of books, (An Applied Mathematician’s Apology, Evaluation Complexity of Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization: Theory, Computation, and Perspectives, Mathematical Foundations of Finite Elements and Iterative Solvers, Foundations of Computational Imaging: A Model-Based Approach, How To Be Creative: A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences, A Toolbox For

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On October 26, 2021, Prof. Gerhard Kreisselmeier passed away. He was faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Kassel. His area of research spanned from adaptive control, computational complexity, and controllability, to sampled data systems. He made an indelible mark on the community. His loss is mourned by several of his colleagues and friends. We have assembled them

That a feedback controller must contain an integrator to asymptotically reject any constant load disturbance is a principle that every student in control remembers as a principle: something that you have been taught as important; something the importance of which does not seem questioned; something that you can confidently apply, even if it goes with the secret hope of not having to explain why. It

This issue of IEEE Control Systems includes one feature and one lecture note. In the feature, “Runtime Assurance for Safety-Critical Systems: An Introduction to Safety Filtering Approaches for Complex Control Systems” [A1] , authors Kerianne L. Hobbs, Mark L. Mote, Matthew C.L. Abate, Samuel D. Coogan, and Eric M. Feron provide an introductory tutorial of runtime assurance (RTA) concepts and their

If you were to ask a controls engineer why one should care about eigenvalues, the answer would be obvious and immediate. Eigenvalues are absolutely critical to anyone designing controllers or wanting to understand how a system behaves. Eigenvalues can literally tell us whether or not an aircraft will crash, or if an infectious disease will turn into a global pandemic. Now, if you were to ask the same

Stick-slip oscillations as experienced in oil well drillstrings are an example of limit-cycling behavior. In mechanical systems limit cycles often occur due to hysteresis, backlashes between contacting parts, dry friction between sliding parts, nonlinear damping, geometrical imperfections, etc.

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems , we speak with Sophie Tarbouriech, a senior researcher at the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Toulouse, France; Azim Eskandarian, a professor in and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; and Jamal Daafouz, a full professor at the

How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

How did your education and early career lead to your initial and continuing interest in the control field?

More than three miles above the Arizona desert, an F-16 student pilot experienced a gravity-induced loss of consciousness, passing out while turning at nearly 9Gs (nine times the force of gravity), flying over 400 kn (over 460 mi/h). With its pilot unconscious, the aircraft turn devolved into a dive, dropping from over 17,000 ft to lower than 8,000 ft in altitude in less than 10 s. An auditory warning

Hysteresis is a nonlinear phenomenon arising in diverse fields such as mechanics, biology, electronics, and economics [1] (see “Summary”). In particular, hysteresis is ubiquitously exhibited by various smart materials, such as piezoelectrics, magnetostrictives, and shape memory alloys [2] , [3] . These materials show inherent coupling between mechanical properties and electrical/magnetic/thermal fields;