IEEE Control Systems Technology Award | IEEE Control Systems Society

To recognize outstanding contributions to control systems technology either in design and implementation or project management.

Historical Background:

Revised 2000.

Prize:

$2,000, photo-engraved Plaque for each recipient, and travel expenses to the CDC for one recipient (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). If the prize is awarded to a group, members of the group will equally split the cash portion of the prize.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the CSS.

Basis for Judging:

The technical merit of the outstanding control systems technology contribution in either design and implementation, or project management. The broader impacts of the contribution towards the benefit of society at large and towards the CSS diversity and inclusiveness goals in terms of geography, gender, and work sector.

Eligibility:

Either an individual or a team.

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

2023

Frank J. Doyle, III

For pioneering the design of control algorithms to enable the commercial development of the artificial pancreas as a therapeutic intervention to improve the quality of life for individuals with diabetes

2022

Yue-Yun Wang, Carmen Pedicini, Vincenzo Alfieri, and Ibrahim Haskara

For the development and implementation of nonlinear air-charging control of fuel-efficient turbo-boosted engines for mass vehicle production

2021

Lars Blackmore, and Yoshiaki Kuwata

For developing the guidance, navigation and control for the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy reusable rockets

2020

Malcolm Smith, Will Hoult, and Panos Brezas

For the development of the McLaren 720S semi-active suspension control system

Acceptance Speech

2019

Warren Dixon

, Nitin Sharma

, Matthew J. Bellman, Alan Hamlet, Christian Cousin, Courtney Rouse

, Ryan Downey, and Victor Duenas

For closed-loop functional electrical stimulation control methods leading to successful commercialization and personalized rehabilitative treatment options

2018

No Award Given

2017

Pierino Bonanni, James Brooks, David Chan, Ramu Chandra, Paul Houpt, H. Kirk Mathews, Bernardo Movsichoff, and Manthram Sivasubramaniam

For control systems innovations of the GE Trip Optimizer leading to both commercial success and significant environmental benefits

2016

Aaron Knobloch, R. Dyche Anderson, Jason Karp, and Christopher Kapusta

For the development of an advanced battery management system accounting for electro-thermo-mechanical phenomena

2015

Nathan van de Wouw

, Henk Nijmeijer, Alexey Pavlov, and Marcel Heertjes

For the development and application of variable-gain control techniques for high-performance motion systems

2014

Michael Cantoni, Iven Mareels, and Erik Weyer

For their work, in a 15 year collaboration with Rubicon Water of Australia, for the development and implementation of controls for irrigation channels and water management, as embodied in Rubicon's Total Channel Control product

2013

No Award Given

2012

David Germann, Dejan Kihas, Daniel Pachner, Jaroslav Pekar, Greg Stewart, and Francesco Borrelli

For the design, implementation and commercialization of the OnRAMP design suite for powertrain control

2011

Christos G. Cassandras

, and Michael Clune

For the design and commercial development of SimEvents, a discrete event and hybrid system simulator

2010

Mrdjan Jankovic

For advancing automotive engine technology using novel control and optimization methods

2009

Reza Moheimani

, 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

For nanopositioning for MEMS-based storage and other applications

2008

Tariq Samad

Biography

Tariq Samad holds the Honeywell/W.R. Sweatt Chair at the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the nation’s longest-running M.S. in Management of Technology program and has an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Samad joined TLI in 2016 after a 30-year career with Honeywell, for the last half of which he was a Corporate Fellow with Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS). During his career with Honeywell, he contributed to and led automation and control technology developments for applications in electric power systems, clean energy, building management, the process industries, automotive engines, unmanned aircraft, and advanced manufacturing. His research interests relate broadly to automation, intelligence, and autonomy for complex engineering systems. In 2015-2016 he also served as the first Global Innovation Leader for the business.

Dr. Samad was the President of the American Automatic Control Council for 2014-15 and the President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2009. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of IFAC and the recipient of a few awards including the 2008 IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award, a Distinguished Member Award from IEEE CSS, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Press and has recently launched a new book series for Wiley/IEEE Press on “Technology Management, Innovation, and Leadership.” He is the founding chair of the new Industry Committee for IFAC. Dr. Samad holds 20 patents and has authored or edited over 100 publications. He is currently working on the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Systems and Control (co-editor-in-chief, Springer, 2014). He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel and he co-led technology deep dives on advanced sensing, controls, and platforms for manufacturing as part of the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative. Dr. Samad holds a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Affiliation(s)

Honeywell Labs

United States

For technology development, demonstration, and commercialization that span a number of application domains: process industries, aerospace vehicles, building automation, and automotive power trains

2007

Andrzej Banaszuk

For contributions to the areas of control of compressor instabilities, combustion instabilities, and other fluid flow instabilities in aerospace systems

2006

Lalit Mestha

For his outstanding contributions in applying control systems technology to Particle Accelerators and Digital Printing Systems

2005

Gary Balas, and Andrew Packard

For their outstanding contributions to control systems technology by developing state-of-the art control algorithms and enabling software for use in industrial problems, for making modern robust control tools accessible to practicing engineers, and for their leadership role in the field of control engineering

2004

Banavar Sridhar

For the development of modeling and simulation techniques for multivehicle traffic networks and advanced air traffic management systems through innovative application of control systems concepts

2003

Jeffrey Cook, Jessy Grizzle

, and Jing Sun

For the development of fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly automotive powertrains through innovative application of control theory

2002

Dimitry Gorinevsky, and Greg Stewart

In recognition for their innovative application of modern identification and control methods to the papermaking process

2001

James Antaki, and Bradley Paden

For their development of the StreamLiner artificial heart, a mechatronics design that epitomizes the integration of control with electromechanical systems to achieve a novel design that has the potential to save over 35,000 lives per year

2000

Siva Banda

1999

Michael J. Piovoso

Biography

Professor Piovoso spent 33 years with the DuPont Company, retired, and for nearly the last 16 years, has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Since July, 2015, Professor Piovoso is Professor Emeritus. While at DuPont, Professor Piovoso was involved in the control of chemical process systems. His research was on the application of multivariate statistics to complex dynamic system. Together with colleagues at DuPont, Professor Piovoso developed the first system to monitor a chemical process based on multivariate statistics. Using data taken during periods when the process is working well, the natural fluctuations are model using principal component analysis. This model is then used to test process operations. If the variability is consistent with normal operation, the system is assumed to be producing a high quality product. If the variations are abnormal, the system defines which variables are misbehaving. This work resulted in the awarding of the Control Systems Technology Award by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

While at Penn State, Professor Piovoso began collaborating with Professor Zurakowski from the University of Delaware on system biology. In particular, Professor Piovoso, together with Dr. Zurakowski’s group, helped develop mathematical models for HIV and its interaction with drugs and obtained accurate estimates of model parameters and their likely distribution. Later, a study of HIV patients whose virus was under control and then administered an additional drug, raltegravir, became available. Raltegravir targets an HIV enzyme, integrase and prevents the integration of the viral genetic material into human chromosomes. Failure to integrate produces 2-‐LTR circles which were measured in the patients after administering the drug. This data of 2-‐LTR circles over time was model. The model’s behavior for approximately 1/3 of the patients, could only be explained by on-going viral replication. We hypothesized that this replication was occurring in lymph nodes. This conclusion is contrary to existing theory on the persistence of HIV virus. Models of how viral replication might be occurring in lymph nodes produced LTR circles consistent with measured results.

Affiliation(s)

University of Delaware (Prof. Emeritus)

For research, development, and implementation of state of the art process control in the chemical manufacturing industry

1998

Guy Dumont

For innovative industrial applications of adaptive control

1997

Joe Chow

For pioneering contributions to time-scale analysis of large power systems

1996

Harvey Banks

1995

Suresh Joshi

For the development and application of control systems methodology to light weight, flexible spacecraft systems and structures

1994

Gregory Diehl, and Rajan Suri

For the creation, development, implementation and management automation planning software, ManuPlan and its derivative MPX during the period 1986-1993

1993

Alan Laub

For contributions to CACSD that have fundamentally changed the research and applications environment for control systems design

1992

George Meyer

1991

Gunner Bengsston

1990

Ken Lorrel

1989

Edgar Bristol