IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award

2023

"Nonlinear Energy-Maximizing Optimal Control of Wave Energy Systems: A Moment-Based Approach"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 29, No. 6, pages 2533-2547, 2021

Nicolás Faedo, Giordano Scarciotti, Alessandro Astolfi

Alessandro Astolfi

Biography

Alessandro Astolfi (F’09) was born in Rome, Italy, in 1967. He received the Graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rome, Rome, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in information theory and the Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honor with a thesis on discontinuous stabilization of nonholonomic systems from ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, both in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree for his work on nonlinear robust control from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, in 1996.,Since 1996, he has been with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London, U.K., where he is currently a Professor of nonlinear control theory and the Head of the Control and Power Group. From 1998 to 2003, he was also an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico of Milano. Since 2005, he has also been a Professor with Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in nonlinear control with several universities, including ETH-Zurich (1995–1996); Terza University of Rome (1996); Rice University, Houston, TX, USA (1999); Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2000); SUPELEC, Paris, France (2001); and Northeastern University (2013). He is the author of more than 150 journal papers, 30 book chapters, and more than 240 papers in refereed conference proceedings. He is the author (with D. Karagiannis and R. Ortega) of the monograph Nonlinear and Adaptive Control With Applications (Springer-Verlag). His research interests include mathematical control theory and control applications, with special emphasis on the problems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and adaptive control, observer design, and model reduction.

Prof. Astolfi was the recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2009), the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2012), and the Automatica Best Paper Award (2017). He was also the recipient of the 2015 Sir Harold Hartley Medal, for outstanding contribution to the technology of measurement and control, from the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is a Distinguished Member of the IEEE CSS, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He served as an Associate Editor for the Automatica, the Systems and Control Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, the European Journal of Control, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute; an Area Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; and an Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Control. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He served as the Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2010–2017) and in the International Program Committee (IPC) of several international conferences. He has been a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2016, 2019).

Affiliation(s)

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

, and John Ringwood

2022

"Online Capacity Estimation for Lithium-Ion Battery Cells via an Electrochemical Model-Based Adaptive Interconnected Observer"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 29, No. 4, pages 1636-1651

Anirudh Allam, and Simona Onori

2021

"Model-Free Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation by Stochastic Extremum Seeking"

IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 28, No. 01, pages 238-253, January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2019.2892924

Paulo Paz, Tiago Roux de Oliveira, Alexandre Visintainer Pino, and Ana Paula Fontana

2020

"A Robust Consensus Algorithm for Current Sharing and Voltage Regulation in DC Microgrids"

IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 27, No. 4, pages 1583-1595, July 2019

Michele Cucuzzella, Sebastian Trip, Claudio De Persis, Xiaodong Cheng, Antonella Ferrara

Antonella Ferrara

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Website

Biography

Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree (Cum Laude and printing honors) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been Full Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she is the Head of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, as well as the President of the Research Standing Committee of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Her research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, with a special emphasis on sliding mode control, with application to road traffic, automotive systems, robotics and power systems. She is author and co-author of more than 450 publications including more than 150 journal papers, 2 monographs and one edited book.

She was Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology, visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, as well as Invited Lecturer at Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Delft, INRIA Grenoble, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Hanyang University in Seoul, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dalian Maritime University, National Institute of Technology Silchar, IIIT Kharagpur, Murdoch University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Imperial College, University of Cambridge, and University of Exeter, among others. She was/is Principal Investigator in several European, international and national projects and was one of the eleven experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of Research to write the National Research Plan for the period 2021-2027 for the research area “Sustainable Mobility”.

She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She was Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. She was Associate Editor and Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Since 2018 she has been Associated Editor of Automatica, and, since January 2022, Senior Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

She served as a member of the EUCA Council and, since ECC 2019, she has been the EUCA Conference Editorial Board Chair. She will serve as one of the IPC Chairs (together with Maurice Heemels) for the 24th IFAC Word Congress to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2029.

She was “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2012. She was Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (July 2013-December 2016) and, at present, she is a member of the Advisory Board of that committee. She was “elected member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the triennium 2016-2018. She was member of the IEEE Control System Society Outreach Task Force (2017-2019) and was the Chair of the Task Force in 2020. She is incoming member of the ExCom of the IEEE Control System Society with the role of Director of Operations (2023-2026 term). In 2015-2019, she was a Member of the European Control Association (EUCA) Council.

She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee (TC) on Nonlinear Control Systems, IFAC TC on Transportation Systems, IFAC TC on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE TC on Automotive Control, IEEE TC on Smart Cities, and IEEE TC on Variable Structure Systems. Among several awards, she was a co-recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. She is IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Pavia

Italy

, and Arjan van der Schaft

Acceptance Speech

2019

"Event-Based Power/Performance-Aware Thermal Management for High-Density Microprocessors"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 535-550, March 2018

Alberto Leva, Federico Terraneo, Irene Giacomello, and William Fornaciari

2018

"Multimode Q Control in Tapping-Mode AFM: Enabling Imaging on Higher Flexural Eigenmodes"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 24, No. 4, pages 1149-1159, 2016.

Michael Ruppert

Biography

Michael Ruppert received the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in automation technology in production, with a specialization in systems theory and automatic control, from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2013. In 2017, he received the Ph.D. degree with Excellence Award in electrical engineering from The University of Newcastle, Australia where he is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

Dr Ruppert’s research topics are situated within the area of Micro Precision Mechatronics and as such bridge the gap between classical electrical / control engineering and emerging applications in the field of microelectromechanical systems, high performance microscopy and nanotechnology. His recent work has focused on the development of estimation, control and self-sensing approaches for microelectromechanical (MEMS) systems such as piezoelectric microcantilevers and nanopositioning systems for multifrequency and single-chip atomic force microscopy.

As a Visiting Researcher, he was with the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. During his research visit he worked on the fabrication of piezoelectric microcantilevers in the clean room and lead-authored the publication on the first silicon-on-insulator MEMS on-chip atomic force microscope, recently published and identified as a JMEMS RightNow paper in the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, and which was highlighted in the IEEE Spectrum magazine. During his visit, Dr. Ruppert also consulted to Zyvex LABS, Richardson, USA on the analysis of process stability of scanning tunneling microscope enabled nanolithography.

Dr Ruppert received the Academic Merit Scholarship from the University of Stuttgart, the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship, and held Postgraduate Research Scholarships with the University of Newcastle and with the CSIRO, Clayton, VIC, Australia. Dr Ruppert’s research has been recognized with Best Conference Paper Finalist Awards at the 2018 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS) and a the 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). In 2018, the article Multimode Q Control in Tapping-Mode AFM: Enabling Imaging on Higher Flexural Eigenmodes published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology received the 2018 IEEE TCST Outstanding Paper Award.

Affiliation(s)

University of Newcastle

Australia

, and Reza Moheimani

Reza Moheimani

Biography

Reza Moheimani joined the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015, where he established and directs the Laboratory for Dynamics and Control of Nanosystems in the Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. He currently holds the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology and is a Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the UTD, he was a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. During his 17 years with the University of Newcastle, he established a research program in the area of high-precision mechatronic systems with significant national and international collaborations and served as Associate Director of Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence.

His research has ranged across many areas including robust control theory and robust state estimation of uncertain dynamic systems, applications of control and estimation in smart structures, active control of noise and vibration, and control of high-precision mechatronic systems. His current research interests include ultrahigh-precision mechatronic systems, with a particular emphasis on dynamics and control at the nanometer scale, including applications of control and estimation in nanopositioning systems for high-speed scanning probe microscopy and nanomanufacturing, modeling and control of microcantilever-based devices, control of microactuators in microelectromechanical systems, and design, modeling, and control of micromachined nanopositioners for on-chip scanning probe microscopy. Dr. Moheimani has published over 300 reviewed articles and 5 books and edited volumes.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Newcastle

United Kingdom

2017

"Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 1623–1642, September 2016

Walter Caharija, Kristin Y. Pettersen

, Marco Bibuli, Pedro Calado, Enrica Zereik, José Braga, Jan Gravdahl, Asgeir Sørensen, Milan Milovanovic ́, and Gabriele Bruzzone

2016

"Game Theory Controller for Hybrid Electric Vehicles"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 652-663, March 2014

Clément Dextreit, and Ilya Kolmanovsky

2015

"Connecting System Identification and Robust Control for Next-Generation Motion Control of a Wafer Stage"

IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 102-118, February 2014

Maarten Steinbuch

, Tom Oomen, Robbert Van Herpen, Sander Quist, Marc van de Wal, and Okko Bosgra

2014

"An Energy Management Controller to Optimally Trade Off Fuel Economy and Drivability for Hybrid Vehicles"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1490-1505, November 2012

Daniel Opila, Xiaoyong Wang, Ryan McGee, Brent Gillespie, Jeffrey Cook, and Jessy Grizzle

2013

"2-DOF Control of a Fire-Rescue Turntable Ladder"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 438-452, March 2012

Nico Zimmert, Alexander Pertsch, and Oliver Sawodny

2012

"Two-Degree-Of-Freedom Active Vibration Control of a Prototyped ‘Smart’ Rotor"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 284-296, March 2011

Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Anton Hulskamp, Thanasis K. Barlas, Ivo Houtzager, Harald Bersee, Gijs van Kuik, and Michel Verhaegen

2011

"High Altitude Wind Energy Generation Using Controlled Power Kites"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 279–293, March 2010

Massimo Canale, Lorenzo Fagiano, and Mario Milanese

2010

"Banding Artifact Reduction for a Class of Color Electrophotographic Printers with Underactuated Motor/Gear Configuration"

IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 577–588, July 2008

Cheng-Lun Chen, and George Chiu

2009

"Control of MEMS-Based Scanning-Probe Data-Storage Devices"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 824-841, September 2007

Angeliki Pantazi, Abu Sebastian, Giovanni Cherubini

Giovanni Cherubini

Biography

I joined the Communication Systems research staff at IBM Research – Zurich in 1987, after receiving a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. My research initially focused on high-speed data transmission systems. I participated and contributed to the work of several standards bodies, including IEEE 802, ATM Forum, Committee T1, and ITU-T. During my involvement in standardization efforts, I was co-editor of the 100BASE-T2 IEEE Standard for Fast Ethernet transmission over voice-grade cables, and proposed a new filter-bank modulation scheme for very high-speed digital subscriber lines, known as filtered multitone modulation.

More recently, I focused on advanced servo control for data storage systems, contributing to the realization of the first fully-functional atomic force microscope-based data-storage prototype system, internally dubbed "millipede". The tremendous potential of techniques for fast scanner positioning with nanometer-scale accuracy in scanning-probe storage devices and other applications, e.g., molecular biology, has been widely recognized. Further, our innovative servo control technologies for future generations of tape drive systems routinely achieve nanometer-scale accuracy in the head positioning of tape drives. This accuracy has contributed to several world-record storage areal density demonstrations, the most recent one of which in 2017 achieved a density of 201 Gb/in², a breakthrough that represents the equivalent of a 330-terabyte tape cartridge that could fit in the palm of one's hand. My current research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning based on non-von-Neumann computing architectures.

I served as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of CDMA Systems, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. Currently, I am Senior Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters and Associate Editor of IFAC Mechatronics. I was Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for the special issues on Copper Wire Access Technologies for High Performance Networks, and Multiuser Detection Techniques with Application to Wired and Wireless Communications Systems, as well as Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology for the special issue on Advanced Servo Control for Emerging Data Storage Systems.

Since 2008, I have been a member of the invention disclosure evaluation team at IBM Research – Zurich. Currently, I serve as Chairperson of the Review Committee for invention disclosures in the area of Cloud and Computing Infrastructure. I am an IBM Master Inventor and an IEEE Fellow, have over 120 refereed publications, and hold over 200 patents in the areas of signal processing, big data, control, and communication systems.

Affiliation(s)

IBM Research, Zürich

Switzerland

, Mark Lantz, Haralampos Pozidis, Hugo Rothuizen, and Evangelos Elftheriou

2008

"Passivity-based Dynamic Visual Feedback Control for Three Dimensional Target Tracking: Stability and L2-gain Performance Analysis"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 40-52, January 2007

Masayuki Fujita

, Hiroyuki Kawai, and Mark Spong

Mark Spong

Website

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, Dallas

United States

2007

"Sensorless Vibration Suppression and Scan Compensation for Piezoelectric Tube Nanopositioners"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp 33-44, January 2006

Andrew J. Fleming, and Reza Moheimani

Reza Moheimani

Biography

Reza Moheimani joined the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015, where he established and directs the Laboratory for Dynamics and Control of Nanosystems in the Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. He currently holds the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology and is a Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the UTD, he was a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. During his 17 years with the University of Newcastle, he established a research program in the area of high-precision mechatronic systems with significant national and international collaborations and served as Associate Director of Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence.

His research has ranged across many areas including robust control theory and robust state estimation of uncertain dynamic systems, applications of control and estimation in smart structures, active control of noise and vibration, and control of high-precision mechatronic systems. His current research interests include ultrahigh-precision mechatronic systems, with a particular emphasis on dynamics and control at the nanometer scale, including applications of control and estimation in nanopositioning systems for high-speed scanning probe microscopy and nanomanufacturing, modeling and control of microcantilever-based devices, control of microactuators in microelectromechanical systems, and design, modeling, and control of micromachined nanopositioners for on-chip scanning probe microscopy. Dr. Moheimani has published over 300 reviewed articles and 5 books and edited volumes.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Newcastle

United Kingdom

2006

"Global Uniform Asymptotic Stabilization of an Underactuated Surface Vessel: Experimental Results"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 891-903, December 2004

Kristin Y. Pettersen

, Frédéric Mazenc

, and Henk Nijmeijer

2005

"Worst-Case and Distributional Robustness Analysis of Finite-Time Control Trajectories for Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 694-704, September 2003

Zoltan Nagy, and Richard Braatz

2004

"Feedback Controller Design for a Spatially Distributed System: The Paper Machine Problem"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 612-628, September 2003

Greg Stewart, Dimitry Gorinevsky, and Guy Dumont

2003

"Effects of Control Structure on Performance for an Automotive Powertrain with a Continuously Variable Transmission"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 701-708, September 2002

Sharon Liu, and Anna Stefanopoulou

2002

"Constructive Lyapunov Control Design for Turbocharged Diesel Engines"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 288-299, March 2000

Mrdjan Jankovic, Miroslava Jankovic, and Ilya Kolmanovsky

2001

"Demonstration of Integrated Longitudinal and Lateral Control for the Operation of Automated Vehicles in Platoons"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 695-708, July 2000

Rajesh Rajamani

, Han-Shue Tan, Boon Law, and Wei-Bin Zhang

2000

"Centrifugal Compressor Surge and Speed Control"

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 567-579, September 1999

Olav Egeland, and Jan Gravdahl