How a research team defines their study sample can be decisive in shaping impact on both practice and theory. However, sampling design faces several major challenges, including diverse terminology, limited prior literature, lack of common framework for discussing decisions. We address these challenges by bringing together guidance from across related fields as well cross-referring to examples p...

Robust controllers that stabilize dynamical systems even under disturbances and noise are often formulated as solutions of nonsmooth, nonconvex optimization problems. While methods such gradient sampling can handle the nonconvexity nonsmoothness, costs evaluating objective function may be substantial, making robust control challenging for with high-dimensional state spaces. In this work, we int...