IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

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

Prize:

A photo-engraved Plaque for each recipient and, for one recipient, travel expenses to the CDC (round trip restricted minimal coach air fare), conference registration, and up to 4 conference-rate hotel nights for a 3-day conference, and up to 5 conference-rate hotel nights for a 4-day conference).

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At most one (1) award presented at the Award Ceremony of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Basis for Judging:

Originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity.

Eligibility:

Authors of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TAC) during the two calendar years preceding the year of the award. The paper publication date is determined by the journal volume date (not the online publication date).

Nomination Details:

Nominations and reference letters are due by May 15 and must be submitted using the IEEE Control Systems Society Awards Nomination system at awards.paperplaza.net.

Nomination Form

Nomination Instructions

Recipients

1993

"Systematic Design of Adaptive Controllers for Feedback Linearizable Systems"

1991 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 1991, pp. 649-654, doi: 10.23919/ACC.1991.4791451.

I. Kanellakopoulos, Petar Kokotovic, and A. Stephen Morse

1992

"Optimal Robustness in the Gap Metric"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 673-686, June 1990, doi: 10.1109/9.53546.

Tryphon Georgiou

, and Malcolm Smith

1991

"Output Regulation of Nonlinear Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 131-140, Feb. 1990, doi: 10.1109/9.45168.

Alberto Isidori, and Christopher Byrnes

1990

"Robust Control of Ill-conditioned Plants: High-purity Distillation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 1092-1105, Dec. 1988, doi: 10.1109/9.14431.

S. Skogestad, Manfred Morari

, and John Doyle

"State-space Solutions to Standard H-2 and H-infinity Control Problems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 831-847, Aug. 1989, doi: 10.1109/9.29425.

John Doyle

, Keith Glover

, Pramod Khargonekar, and Bruce Francis

1989

"L1-Optimal Feedback Controllers for MIMO Discrete-Time Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 314-322, April 1987, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1987.1104603.

Munther Dahleh

, and J. Boyd Pearson

"Output Feedback Control of Linear Two-Time-Scale Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 784-792, September 1987, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1987.1104720.

Hassan Khalil

Biography

Hassan K. Khalil received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1973 and 1975, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1978, all in electrical engineering.

Since 1978, he has been with Michigan State University (MSU), where he is currently University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has consulted for General Motors and Delco Products, and published several papers on singular perturbation methods and nonlinear control. He is the author of Nonlinear Control (Pearson 2015), Nonlinear Systems (Macmillan 1992; Prentice Hall 1996 & 2002) and coauthor of Singular Perturbation Methods in Control: Analysis and Design (Academic Press 1986; SIAM 1999).

Dr. Khalil was named IEEE Fellow in 1989 and IFAC Fellow in 2007. He received the 1989 IEEE-CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, the 2000 AACC Ragazzini Education Award, the 2002 IFAC Control Engineering Textbook Prize, the 2004 AACC O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2009 AGEP Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, and the 2015 IEEE-CSS Bode Lecture Prize. At MSU he received the 1983 Teacher Scholar Award, the 1994 Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, and the 1995 Distinguished Faculty Award. He was named University Distinguished Professor in 2003. He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and Neural Networks, and as Editor of Automatica for nonlinear systems and control. He was Registration Chair of the 1984 CDC, Finance Chair of the 1987 ACC, Program Chair of the 1988 ACC, and General Chair of the 1994 ACC.

Affiliation(s)

Michigan State University

United States

1988

"Robust Adaptive Control in the Presence of Bounded Disturbances"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 306-315, April 1986, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1986.1104259.

K.S. Narendra, and Anuradha Annaswamy

Anuradha Annaswamy

Biography

Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace, automotive, and propulsion systems, cyber-physical systems science, and CPS applications to Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She is the author of a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publications, co-author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), co-editor of several reports including “Systems & Control for the future of humanity, research agenda: Current and future roles, impact and grand challenges,” (Elsevier) “IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond,” (IEEE Xplore) and Impact of Control Technology, (ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report, ieeecss.org/general/IoCT2-report).

Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby and Control Systems Magazine best paper awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München, the Donald Groen Julius Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Distinguished Member Award, and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from IEEE CSS. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has served as the Vice President for Conference Activities (2014-15) and is currently serving as the VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

"Application of Modern Synthesis to Aircraft Control: Three Case Studies"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 995-1014, November 1986, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1986.1104161.

D. Gangsaas, K. Bruce, J.D. Blight, and Uy-Loi Ly

1987

"Convergence of Parameter Sensitivity Estimates in a Stochastic Experiment"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 845-853, September 1985, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1985.1104076.

Xi-Ren Cao