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Description: The IEEE Control Systems Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1980, and may be presented annually on recommendation of the IEEE Awards Board. It is awarded for meritorious achievement or contributions to design, practice, techniques, or theory, as evidenced by publications or patents in the areas of control systems engineering, science, or technology.
(Nomination Form)

 

Prize: Bronze medal, certificate and cash prize.

Funding: Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Eligibility: Must have been a member of the CSS for at least five (5) years.

Presentation: Presented annually at the Awards Ceremony of the CSS during the CDC in December.

Past Recipients:

2008 - Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
"For promulgation of control science and engineering and contributions to robust control, robotics and statistical learning theory"

2007 - Lennart Ljung
"For seminal contributions to system identification and its impact on industrial practice"

2006 - P. R. Kumar
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems and wireless communications"

2005 - MANFRED MORARI 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 
"For pioneering contributions to the theory and application of robust process, model predictive, and hybrid systems control." 
 
2004 - JOHN DOYLE 
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 
"For fundamental contributions to the analysis and control of uncertain systems." 
 
2003 - NIKOLAI NICOLAEVICH KRASOVSKI 
Technical Univ of Ural, Russia 
"For pioneering contributions to the theories of stability, control and differential games." 
 
2002 - PRAVIN VARAIYA 
Univ of Calif at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 
"For outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science." 
 
2001 - KEITH GLOVER 
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 
"For pioneering and fundamental contributions to robust controller design and model order reduction" 
 
2000 - SANJOY K. MITTER 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 
"For contributions to optimization, optimal control, and nonlinear filtering, and for interdisciplinary research that has expanded the boundaries of control theory." 
 
1999 - A. STEPHEN MORSE 
Yale University, New Haven, CT 
"For pioneering the geometric approach to linear multivariable control synthesis and contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory." 
 
1998 - JAN C. WILLEMS 
University of Groningen - Groningen, The Netherlands 
"For seminal contributions to control theory and leadership in systems research." 
 
1997 - BRIAN D.O. ANDERSON 
Australian National University - Canberra, Australia 
"For contributions in the areas of adaptive and optimal control, stability, and system identification." 
 
1996 - VLADIMIR A. YAKUBOVICH 
St. Petersburg University - St. Petersburg, Russia 
"For pioneering and fundamental contributions to stability analysis and optimal control." 
 
1995 - PETAR V. KOKOTOVIC 
University of California - Santa Barbara, CA 
"For pioneering contributions to singular perturbation theory, adaptive systems, nonlinear controls, and their industrial applications." 
 
1994 - ELMER G. GILBERT 
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI 
"For pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms." 
 
1993 - MOSHE M. ZAKAI 
Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech. - Haifa, Israel 
"For contributions to non-linear stochastic analysis, and its applications to control systems." 
 
1992 - HAROLD J. KUSHNER 
Brown University - Providence, RI 
"For fundamental contributions to stochastic systems theory and its engineering applications." 
 
1991 - ROGER W. BROCKETT 
Harvard University - Cambridge, MA 
"For pioneering and innovative contributions to nonlinear control, stability, robotics and control engineering education." 
 
1990 - KARL JOHAN ÅSTRÖM 
Lund University - Lund, Sweden 
"For fundamental contributions in control theory with emphasis on its practical application." 
 
1989 - YU-CHI HO 
Harvard University - Cambridge, MA 
"For contributions to differential games, multi-person decision making, and discrete event dynamic systems." 
 
1988 - DANTE C. YOULA 
Polytechnic Institute of NY - Farmingdale, NY 
"For original contributions in the areas of circuits, systems and control theory, and the rigorous solution of engineering problems." 
 
1987 - WALTER MURRAY WONHAM 
University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada 
"For pioneering contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, linear multivariable control, and discrete event systems." 
 
1986 - CHARLES A. DESOER 
University of California - Berkeley, CA 
"For fundamental contributions to linear system theory, linear controller design, linear and nonlinear stability analysis, and the role of feedback in nonlinear systems." 
 
1985 - GEORGE ZAMES 
McGill University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
"For contributions to feedback stability theory and linear multivariable control system design." 
 
1984 - ARTHUR E. BRYSON, JR. 
Stanford University - Stanford, CA 
"For pioneering contributions to optimal control and estimation and their applications." 
 
1983 - NO AWARD 
 
1982 - HOWARD H. ROSENBROCK 
University of Manchester - Manchester, England 
"For contributions to multivariable control theory and design methods."