IEEE Control Systems Award
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The IEEE Control Systems Award is a technical field award given to an individual by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) "for outstanding contributions to control system
s engineering
, science
or technology
". It is an IEEE-level award, created in 1980 by the Board of Directors of the IEEE, but sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society
.
Originally the name was IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award, but after 1991 the IEEE changed it to IEEE Control Systems Award.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate, and a honorarium.
The following people received the IEEE Control Systems Award:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
(IEEE) "for outstanding contributions to control system
Control system
A control system is a device, or set of devices to manage, command, direct or regulate the behavior of other devices or system.There are two common classes of control systems, with many variations and combinations: logic or sequential controls, and feedback or linear controls...
s engineering
Engineering
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, science
Science
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or technology
Technology
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". It is an IEEE-level award, created in 1980 by the Board of Directors of the IEEE, but sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Control Systems Society is an organizational unit of the IEEE. It was founded in 1954 and is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of systems and control in engineering.-History:...
.
Originally the name was IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award, but after 1991 the IEEE changed it to IEEE Control Systems Award.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate, and a honorarium.
Recipients
The following people received the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award:- 1982: Howard H. RosenbrockHoward Harry RosenbrockHoward Harry Rosenbrock was a leading figure in control theory and control engineering. He was born in Ilford, England in 1920, graduated in 1941 from University College London with a 1st class honors degree in Electrical Engineering. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He...
- 1983: No award
- 1984: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
- 1985: George ZamesGeorge ZamesGeorge Zames was a control theorist and professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Zames is known for his fundamental contributions to the theory of robust control, and was credited for the development of various well-known results such as small-gain theorem, passivity theorem,...
- 1986: Charles A. Desoer
- 1987: Walter Murray Wonham
- 1988: Dante C. YoulaDante C. YoulaDante C. Youla is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He has worked in the areas of microwave systems and control theory....
- 1989: Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi HoThis article is about the Chinese-American mathematician.Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho is a renowned Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.He is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential...
- 1990: Karl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan Åström is a notable Swedish control theorist, who made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control.- Biography :...
- 1991: Roger W. BrockettRoger W. BrockettRoger Ware Brockett is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.-Biography:...
The following people received the IEEE Control Systems Award:
- 1992: Harold J. KushnerHarold J. KushnerHarold J. Kushner is an American applied mathematician and a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He is known for his work on the theory of stochastic stability , the theory of non-linear filtering , and for the development of numerical methods for stochastic control...
- 1993: Moshe M. Zakai
- 1994: Elmer G. GilbertElmer G. GilbertElmer G. Gilbert is an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan.He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award Elmer G. Gilbert is an American aerospace engineer and a...
- 1995: Petar V. KokotovicPetar V. KokotovicPetar V. Kokotovic is a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control....
- 1996: Vladimir A. Yakubovich
- 1997: Brian D. O. Anderson
- 1998: Jan C. Willems
- 1999: A. Stephen Morse
- 2000: Sanjoy K. MitterSanjoy K. MitterSanjoy Kumar Mitter is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT who is a noted control theorist. He has received both the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council and the IEEE Control Systems Award...
- 2001: Keith Glover
- 2002: Pravin VaraiyaPravin VaraiyaPravin Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department ofElectrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963 also from Berkeley....
- 2003: N. N. Krasovski
- 2004: John C. Doyle
- 2005: Manfred MorariManfred MorariManfred Morari is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1977. Dr. Morari held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977–1983 and the California Institute of...
- 2006: P. R. Kumar
- 2007: Lennart LjungLennart LjungLennart Ljung is a Swedish Professor in the Chair of Control Theory at Linköping University since 1976. He is known for his pioneering research in system identification, and is regarded as a leading researcher in control theory.- Education :...
- 2008: Mathukumalli VidyasagarMathukumalli VidyasagarMathukumalli Vidyasagar is a leading control theorist. He is currently the Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at Tata Consultancy Services where he headed the Advanced Technology Center...
- 2009: David Q. Mayne
- 2010: Graham Clifford Goodwin
- 2011: Eduardo D. SontagEduardo D. SontagEduardo Daniel Sontag is an American/Argentine mathematician, and Professor at the Rutgers University, who works in the field of systems biology and control theory and engineering.- Biography :...
- 2012: Alberto IsidoriAlberto IsidoriAlberto Isidori is an Italian control theorist and a Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Rome and an Affiliate Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is well known as the author of the book Nonlinear Control Systems, one of the most...