Control theory provides a mathematical and conceptual framework for influencing the behaviour of dynamic systems so that they perform in a desired manner. In the linear domain, systems are described ...

Finite-time control refers to the design and analysis of feedback mechanisms that drive a dynamical system’s state to a desired condition within a predetermined, finite interval. This contrasts with ...

Many systems obey simple, linear rules: If you pull twice as hard on a spring, it stretches twice as far. However, when we introduce very large forces or complicated interactions, that linear rule ...

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...

Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. He works on the mathematics of highly nonlinear systems—ones that respond in dramatic, unpredictable ways to even the smallest changes. It’s the same ...