IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize | IEEE Control Systems Society

To recognize distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering.

Historical Background:

Revised 2000, 2001.

Prize:

$2,000, photo-engraved Plaque, and 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) The recipient gives a plenary lecture at the CDC evaluating a significant contribution to control systems science or engineering.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Basis for Judging:

The technical merit of the distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. The broader impacts of the contribution towards the benefit of society at large and towards the IEEE Control Systems Society diversity and inclusiveness goals in terms of geography, gender, and work sector.

Recipients

2020

Kristin Y. Pettersen

Biography

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen (F’17) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, in 1992 and 1996, respectively.

Since 1996, she has been a Faculty Member with the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, where she is currently a Professor. She was the Director of the NTNU ICT Programme of Robotics from 2010 to 2013, the Vice-Head of the Department from 2009 to 2011, and the head of the Department from 2011 to 2013. She is currently an Adjunct Professor with Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Kjeller, Norway. She is also a Key Scientist with the CoE Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, NTNU, from 2013 to 2022. She is a Co-Founder of the NTNU spin-off company Eelume AS, Trondheim, where she was the CEO from 2015 to 2016. She has authored or co-authored four books and over 250 papers in scientific conferences and journals. Her current research interests include nonlinear control of mechanical systems with applications to robotics, especially marine robotics and snake robotics.

Dr. Pettersen was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2012 to 2014. She is a member of the IFAC Council, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, and the Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She has also held and holds several board positions in industrial and research companies. She was a recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology in 2006 and 2017.

Affiliation(s)

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

For leadership in fundamental research, development and commercialization of marine robotics

Acceptance Speech

2019

Lei Guo

For contributions to adaptive control, system identification, adaptive signal processing, and stochastic systems

2018

Mark Spong

Biography

Mark W. Spong received the Doctor of Science degree in systems science and mathematics in 1981 from Washington University in St. Louis. He has held faculty positions at Lehigh University, Cornell University, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is a professor of Systems Engineering, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holder of the Excellence in Education Chair in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He was Dean of the Jonsson School at UT Dallas from 2008-2017. During his tenure as dean he added four departments of engineering, nine new degree programs, and more than doubled the number of students and faculty. Spong is past president of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a fellow of both the IEEE and the IFAC. His main research interests are in robotics, mechatronics, and nonlinear control theory. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 technical articles, five books, and holds one patent. His notable awards include the 2018 Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, the 2016 Nyquist Lecture Prize from the ASME, the 2011 Pioneer in Robotics Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the first IROS Fumio Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies in 2007, the Senior Scientist Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Distinguished Member Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society, the John R. Ragazzini and O. Hugo Schuck Awards from the American Automatic Control Council, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Affiliation(s)

University of Texas at Dallas

United States

For contributions to nonlinear control and robotics

2017

Naomi Leonard

Biography

Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, associated faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Director of the Council on Science and Technology at Princeton University. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, IFAC, and ASME. She received her B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Between degrees, she worked in the electric power industry. Her current research focuses on theory and application in multi-agent systems, mobile sensor networks, collective animal behavior, and human decision dynamics. She studies how network structure, heterogeneity of information, leadership, and nonlinearity determine robust and flexible collective dynamics, and she designs methodology for distributed control of multi-agent systems with provable performance. In collaboration with biologists, she examines the dynamics of human decision-making under uncertainty and explores mechanisms that explain the inspiring dynamics of animal groups, including fish, honeybees, zebras, starlings, and harvester ants. Leonard led a large,multidisciplinary project that culminated in a major field demonstration in Monterey Bay, CA of a first-of- its-kind automated and adaptive ocean observing system, featuring a coordinated network of underwater robotic vehicles. She also works at the intersection of dance and collective dynamics.

Affiliation(s)

Princeton University

United States

For contributions to the theory and application of coordinated control of mobile, multi-agent systems in engineering and in nature

2016

Richard Murray

For contributions to the theory of networked control systems and its applications to systems biology

2015

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

For seminal contributions to nonlinear control theory and education

2014

Bruce Francis

For seminal contributions to robust and H-infinity control, linear control theory, sampled-data control, and distributed robotics

2013

B. Ross Barmish

Biography

B. Ross Barmish received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1971. In 1972 and 1975 respectively, he received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from Cornell University. From 1975 to 1978, he served as Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University. From 1978 to 1984, he was as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester and in 1984, he joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2001 to 2003, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, where he served as Department Chair while holding the endowed Nord Professorship. Over the years, he has been involved in a number of IEEE Control Systems Society activities such as associate editorships, conference chairmanships, the Board of Governors and prize paper committees. He has also served as a consultant for a number of companies and is the author of the textbook New Tools for Robustness of Linear Systems, Macmillan, 1994. Professor Barmish is a Fellow of both the IEEE and IFAC for his contributions to the theory of robustness of dynamical systems. He received the Best Paper Award for Journal Publication in Automatica, covering a three-year period, on two consecutive occasions from the International Federation of Automatic Control. He has also given a number of plenary lectures at major conferences. While his earlier work concentrated on robustness of dynamical systems, his current research, the topic of this Bode lecture, concentrates on building a bridge between feedback control theory and trading in complex financial markets.

For fundamental contributions to the analysis of systems with parametric uncertainty and to probabilistic robustness, and for contributions to the design of stock-trading algorithms that are robust to market variability

2012

Jessy Grizzle

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

2011

John Baillieul

For seminal contributions to mathematical system theory and networked control