Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 4:00pm
Event Calendar Category
LIDS Seminar Series
Speaker Name
Rodolphe Sepulchre
Affiliation
KU Leuven
Building and Room Number
32-155
“Regulation without calibration”
Regulation theory is grounded in the internal model principle, which states that exact regulation requires an exact internal model of the external signals to be regulated. How to reconcile this calibration principle with systems made of uncertain and variable components? How do animals achieve regulation in changing and complex environments? The talk will propose that reliable regulation is possible in uncertain machines that regulate events rather than trajectories. I will highlight the role of excitability and synaptic coupling in a theory of event regulation.
Rodolphe Sepulchre is Professor of Engineering at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is a fellow of IFAC (2020), IEEE (2009), and SIAM (2015). He received the IEEE CSS Antonio RubertiYoung Researcher Prize in 2008 and the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award in 2020.
He was elected to the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2013. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Systems and Control Letters (2009-2019) and the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2020-2024). He is a recipient of two ERC advanced grants (Switchlets (2015-2021) and SpikyControl (2023-2028).