Research

Control systems & automation — the engineering of making physical things behave.

My work is in control systems and automation: building mathematical models of physical systems, then designing and tuning controllers that make them do what we want — stably, and in the real world, not just in simulation.

Focus areas

Selected work

A representative thread of my research has been the modelling and control of an unstable, feedback-driven system — the kind of problem that touches modelling, sensing, controller design, tuning, and stability all at once.

Where this is heading

The same ideas that drive my research drive a hands-on course I'm developing — teaching control by building and tuning a real robot, foregrounding the reasoning behind every design decision. The free slides in the course library are the foundation that course builds on.

Get in touch

Open to collaboration, supervision, and questions. Email me at jirapodphai@gmail.com.