George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

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    John Baillieul
    President - 2006; George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award Chair; Distinguished Lecturer

To recognize outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Award Information
Prize: 
Certificate laminated on a plaque (one for each author).
Funding: 
Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Presentation: 
Up to three (3) awards presented annually at the Awards Ceremony of the CSS.
Eligibility: 
Authors of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control during the two calendar years preceding the year of the award.
Basis for Judgement: 
Originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity.
Award Nomination
Nomination Deadline: 
May 15 of each year.
Nomination: 

Please send nomination describing the outstanding features of the paper to the Chair of the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award Committee below by May 15. Nominations must be submitted electronically and should include (1) A letter from the nominator describing the outstanding features of the paper; (2) Up to three additional supporting letters from individuals who are familiar with the paper. The names and addresses of the individuals who have been asked to provide additional supporting letters must be included in the nomination letter; (3) an electronic copy of the paper itself in the nomination package.

Award Recipients

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2012
Alessandro Astolfi
“Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems,” IEEE TAC, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp.2321-2336, October 2010
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2011
Adolfo Anta
“To Sample or Not to Sample: Self-triggered Control for Nonlinear Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 2030–2042, September 2010, by Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
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2011
Paulo Tabuada
“To Sample or Not to Sample: Self-triggered Control for Nonlinear Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 2030–2042, September 2010, by Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
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2010
Munther A. Dahleh
"Feedback Control in the Presence of Noisy Channels: ‘Bode-Like’ Fundamental Limitations of Performance,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1604–1615, July 2008
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2010
Nuno C. Martins
“Feedback Control in the Presence of Noisy Channels: ‘Bode-Like’ Fundamental Limitations of Performance,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1604–1615, July 2008.
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2009
George J. Pappas
"Approximation Metrics for Discrete and Continuous Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 782-798, May 2007
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2009
Antoine Girad
"Approximation Metrics for Discrete and Continuous Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 782-798, May 2007
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2008
Giuseppe C. Calafiore
"The Scenario Approach to Robust Control Design," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 742-753, May 2006
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2008
Marco C. Campi
"The Scenario Approach to Robust Control Design," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 742-753, May 2006
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2007
Michael Rotkowitz
"A Characterization of Convex Problems in Decentralized Control, " 51:2, 274-286, Feb. 2006