IEEE Control Systems Award | IEEE Control Systems Society

To recognize outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology.

Prize:

The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and $10,000 honorarium.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the CSS.

Basis for Judging:

In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: seminal nature of the contribution, singular achievement, practical impact, breadth of contributions, depth of contributions, historical precedence, and quality of the nomination.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: 15 January of each year

Endorsement deadline: 31 January of each year

More information about this award may be obtained directly from the IEEE.

2022

Dimitri P. Bertsekas

For fundamental contributions to the methodology of optimization and control of uncertain and large-scale dynamical systems, and their dissemination through outstanding monographs and textbooks

2021

Hidenori Kimura

For contributions to synthesis theory of control systems and its applications to manufacturing devices and systems

2020

Anders Lindquist

For contributions to optimal filtering, stochastic control, stochastic realization theory, and system identification

Acceptance Speech

2019

Pramod Khargonekar

For contributions to robust and optimal control theory

2018

John Tsitsiklis

For contributions to the theory and application of optimization in large dynamic and distributed systems.

2017

Richard M. Murray

For contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear and networked control systems.

2016

Arthur Krener

For contributions to the analysis, control, and estimation of nonlinear control systems

2015

Bruce Francis

For pioneering contributions to H-infinity, linear-multivariable, and digital control

2014

Tamer Bașar

For seminal contributions to dynamic games, stochastic and risk-sensitive control, control of networks, and hierarchical decision making

2013

Stephen Boyd

For contributions to systems design and analysis via convex optimization

2012

Alberto Isidori

For pioneering contributions to nonlinear control theory

2011

Eduardo Sontag

For fundamental contributions to nonlinear systems theory and nonlinear feedback control

2010

Graham Goodwin

For contributions to the theory and practice of digital and adaptive control

2009

David Mayne

For contributions to the application of optimization to modern control theory

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

For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems and wireless communications

2005

Manfred Morari

For pioneering contributions to the theory and application of robust process, model predictive, and hybrid systems control

2004

John Doyle

For fundamental contributions to the analysis and control of uncertain systems

2003

Nikolai Krasovskii

For pioneering contributions to the theories of stability, control and differential games

2002

Pravin Varaiya

For outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science

2001

Keith Glover

For pioneering and fundamental contributions to robust controller design and model order reduction

2000

Sanjoy Mitter

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

For pioneering the geometric approach to linear multivariable control synthesis and contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory

1998

Jan Willems

For seminal contributions to control theory and leadership in systems research

1997

Brian Anderson

For contributions in the areas of adaptive and optimal control, stability, and system identification

1996

Vladimir Yakubovich

For pioneering and fundamental contributions to stability analysis and optimal control

1995

Petar Kokotovic

For pioneering contributions to singular perturbation theory, adaptive systems, nonlinear controls, and their industrial applications

1994

Elmer Gilbert

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 Zakai

For contributions to non-linear stochastic analysis, and its applications to control systems

1992

Harold Kushner

For fundamental contributions to stochastic systems theory and its engineering applications

1991

Roger Brockett

For pioneering and innovative contributions to nonlinear control, stability, robotics and control engineering education

1990

Karl Johan Åström

For fundamental contributions in control theory with emphasis on its practical application

1989

Yu-Chi Ho

For contributions to differential games, multi-person decision making, and discrete event dynamic systems

1988

Dante Youla

For original contributions in the areas of circuits, systems and control theory, and the rigorous solution of engineering problems

1987

Walter Murray Wonham

For pioneering contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, linear multivariable control, and discrete event systems

1986

Charles Desoer

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

For contributions to feedback stability theory and linear multivariable control system design

1984

Arthur Bryson

For pioneering contributions to optimal control and estimation and their applications

1982

Howard Rosenbrock

Biography

Howard Rosenbrock was born on December 16, 1920 in Essex, England. He was educated in undergraduate studies at University College London. On graduating in electrical engineering with first class honors, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Signals), and between 1941 and 1946 he saw service in the Lushai Hills on the India-Burma border. On his return to England, he entered industry, and from 1947 to 1962 he occupied several posts, including positions at GEC Research Laboratories, the Electrical Research Association, John Brown & Co, and finally Constructors John Brown, where he became research manager. In 1955 he received the Ph.D. from London University. His work in post-war industry, combined with wartime experiences in the Lushai Hills, played a crucial role in shaping Howard’s personal and scientific philosophy.

As his experience developed, he grew increasingly convinced of the potential for analog and digital computation to improve the nature of work and the effectiveness of manufacturing processes. A wish to explore this potential led him in 1962 to join John Coales at Cambridge University. The years at Cambridge, combined with a period at MIT, allowed Howard to build the theoretical foundations upon which his research reputation would be based. In 1966 he was offered the chair of Control Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technolog y (UMIST), and in this capacity he founded the Interdisciplinary Control Systems Centre (CSC). With the facilities of a research center at his disposal, and with talented colleagues from various disciplines, the centre launched an ambitious program to develop frequency-domain control theories and computer-aided design methods for multivariable control problems. The ideas that emerged from this work, together with highly practical and effective design methods, exercised a crucial influence on the subsequent development of control theory and practice. In 1979, he stepped down from his position as head of the CSC to pursue his philosophical interests in the impact of automation on society, thus beginning a further long and fruitful cycle of research contributions. His final research work was to revisit quantum physics from a control theory viewpoint.

During a long and varied career, Howard received many awards and honors. These include an honorary doctorate from the University of Salford (1987), the IEE Premium, the Heaviside Premium, and the Control Achievement Award (all IEE), Control Systems Science and Engineering Award (IEEE), Oldenburger Medal (ASME), Moulton Medal (IChemE), Sir Harold Hartley Medal and Sir George Thompson Gold Medal (both Institute of Measurement and Control), and the Nordic Process Control Award. He was also a Fellow of the IEE, IChem, the Institute of Measurement and Control, University College London, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society.

Affiliation(s)

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

For contributions to multivariable control theory and design methods