Control Engineering podcasts

Chris Smith investigates autonomous transport through a ride on a self-driving bus in Cambridge. In collaboration with the Royal Institute of Navigation, the programme discusses the engineering, operation and navigation of driverless vehicles. Contributors include Nick Bailey, Daniel Clarke, Jamie Wilson, Jim Hutchinson, Ramsey Faragher and Edward Cameron, representing the test service, local transport partnership, vehicle manufacturer, automation supplier and navigation community.

Hosted by Chris Smith

Hamish Johnston interviews Yonatan Cohen, co-founder and chief technology officer of Quantum Machines, about control systems linking quantum computers to classical computation. Topics include the increasing importance of hybrid control as qubit counts grow, support for superconducting circuits, trapped ions, neutral atoms, spins and nitrogen-vacancy centers, industry collaborations and careers in quantum technology.

Hosted by Hamish Johnston

Nikita Rudin discusses reinforcement learning for robot locomotion and the difficulties of transferring policies from simulation to physical robots. Topics include visual inputs, real-world data for improving simulators, imitation learning and teleoperation, hierarchical control, and trade-offs between modular and end-to-end approaches for autonomous robots.

Hosted by Sam Charrington