2012 Award Recipients
The IEEE Control Systems Society presents several awards annually for technical achievements in the areas of interest to the Society, as well as awards for service to the Society.
IEEE Control Systems Award
Alberto Isidori, University of Rome, Sapienza, Italy
for pioneering contributions to nonlinear control theory
Outstanding Chapter Award
Buffalo Section Chapter of the IEEE CSS
Norman E. Schweitzer, Chapter Chair
Distinguished Member Award
Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College, London, UK
for contributions to nonlinear control theory and adaptive control theory and their applications to electromechanical and power systems, and for outstanding service to the Control Systems Society as Chair of the Society’s Conference Editorial Board.
Mario Sznaier, Northeastern University, USA
for contributions to multiobjective robust control, dynamic vision and imaging, and identification, and for outstanding service to the Control Systems Society in his role as Executive Director and member of its Board of Governors.
CDC Best Student-Paper Award Finalists
Andrew Clark, University of Washington, (Advisor: Linda Bushnell), “On Leader Selection for Performance and Controllability in Multi-Agent Systems” by Andrew Clark, Linda Bushnell and Radha Poovendranby
Takayuki Ishizaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, (Advisor: Jun-ichi Imura) “Clustering-Based H2-State Aggregation of Positive Networks and Its Application to Reduction of Chemical Master Equations,” by Takayuki Ishizaki, Kenji Kashima, Antoine Girard, Jun-ichi Imura, Luonan Chen, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Roberto Tron, Johns Hopkins University (Advisor: Rene Vidal) “Intrinsic Consensus on SO(3) with Almost-Global Convergence,” by Roberto Tron, Bijan Afsari and Rene Vidal
Tao Yang, University of Illinois (Advisor: Prashant G. Mehta) “Multivariable Feedback Particle Filter,” by Tao Yang, Richard S. Laugesen, Preshant G. Mehta, and Sean Meyn
Best Student-Paper Winner: Roberto Tron
CSM Outstanding Paper Award
Lucy Y. Pao and Kathryn Johnson, Control of Wind Turbines: Approaches, Challenges, and Recent Developments, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 31, No.2, pages 44-62, April 2011
TCST Outstanding Paper Award
Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Anton Hulskamp, Thanasis Barlas, Ivo Houtzager, Harald Bersee, Gijs van Kuik, and Michel Verhaegen, Two-degree-of-freedom active vibration control of a prototyped ‘smart’ rotor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 19, No. 2, Pages 284-296, March 2011
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
Alessandro Astolfi, Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp.2321-2336, October 2010
Control Systems Technology Award
David Germann, Dejan Kihas, Daniel Pachner, Jaroslav Pekar, Greg Stewart and Francesco Borrelli
for the design, implementation and commercialization of the OnRAMP Design Suite for Powertrain Control
Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize
Massimo Franceschetti, University of California San Diego, USA
for his contributions in physical and information-based foundation of networked control and communication systems.
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, USA
for his work on automotive applications, his results on nonlinear system theory and for his more recent application to experiments on bipedal locomotion that provide an excellent showcase to the broader community of the value of control theory
CSS Transition to Practice Award
Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Masaaki Nagahara, Kyoto University, and Koji Fujiyama, Energy Company of Panasonic Group, Japan
For the introduction and development of the sound-processing technology incorporated in a large number of LSI chips by SANYO Semiconductor
IEEE Fellows for 2012
Evaluated by CSS
Murat Arcak
for contributions to theory and application of nonlinear observer design and the passivity approach to control of distributed systems
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
for contributions to convex optimization in control systems
Jozsef Bokor
for contributions to system identification and multivariable control system design
Eduardo Camacho
for contributions to model predictive control and advanced control of solar systems
Marco Campi
for contributions to stochastic and randomized methods in systems and control
John Chiasson
for contributions to control of electric machines and power converters
Magnus Egerstedt
for contributions to hybrid and networked control, with applications in robotics
Mayuresh Kothare
for contributions to multivariable constrained systems and model predictive control
James Lam
for contributions ito analysis and synthesis of control systems
Lucy Pao
for contributions to feedforward and feedback control systems
James Rawlings
for contributions to model predictive control
Maria Elena Valcher
for contributions to positive systems theory and the behavioral approach to system analysis and control
Erik Verriest
for contributions to delay systems and modeling time varying and nonlinear systems
Le Yi Wang
for contributions to system identification and the analysis of system complexity
Evaluated by other Societies
Mario di Bernardo (CAS)
for contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks
Gerard Dreyfus (CIS)
for contributions to machine learning and its applications
Marimuthu Palaniswami (CIS)
for contributions to computational intelligence, learning systems, and nonlinear modelling
Jian Xin Xu (IE)
for contributions to motion control systems
Jean-Christophe Olivo (SP)
for contributions to image analysis and its applications in biological imaging