June 4 to 6, 2003
The Adams Mark Hotel,
Denver, Colorado USA
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Richard E. Bellman Heritage Award - Kumpati S. Narendra |
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| The Richard E.Bellman Control Heritage Award is given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control. It is the highest recognition of professional achievement for US control systems engineers and scientists.Recipient must have spent a significant part of their career in the USA. | ||||
| Citation: For pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory, and for inspiring leadership as mentor, advisor, and teacher over a period spanning four decades. | ||||
| Kumpati S.Narendra received the Bachelor of Engineering
degree, with Honors, in Electrical Engineering from Madras University,
India in 1954, and the M.S.and Ph.D.degrees in Applied Physics from
Harvard University in 1955 and 1959, respectively. He was a postdoctoral
fellow from 1959 to 1961, and Assistant Professor from 1961 to 1965
at Harvard. He joined the Department of Engineering and Applied Science
at Yale University as an Associate Professor in 1965, and was made
Professor in 1968. |
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| Professor Narendra received an honorary M.A.degree from Yale in 1968, and an honorary D.Sc.degree from his alma mater in Madras, India in 1995. At Yale, he has served as the chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department (1984-87)and the director of the Neuroengineering and Neuroscience Center (1995- 96). Currently, he is the Howard W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Center for Systems Science. Professor Narendra has authored more than 175 technical papers, written three books (with co-authors J. H. Taylor, A. M. Annaswamy, and M. A. L. Thathachar), edited four others, advised 41 doctoral students and over 30 postdoctoral fellows, and consulted for more than a dozen corporate research laboratories. He has lectured at more than 40 universities worldwide and, since 1993, has delivered more than 45 plenary, keynote, and invited lectures at international conferences and research laboratories in the U. S. and abroad. He has received numerous awards, including the Education Award of the AACC (1990), the Leadership Award of the Neural Networks Society (1994), the Bode Prize of the IEEE (1995), as well as the best paper awards of three different societies of the IEEE (SMC 1972, CSS 1988, Neural Network Council 1991). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1987), the IEE [UK ](1981), and a Life Fellow of the IEEE. He has served on various national and international and ISA awards. He is currently a fellow of the ISA,and a current or past member of the IEEE, AIChE, ACM, and MAA, and is active nationally and locally in a number of groups within these organizations. | ||||
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Donald P. Eckman Award - Claire
Tomlin |
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The Donald P. Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years on January 1 in the year of the award. Contributions may be technical or scientific publications, theses, patents,inventions, or combinations of the above in the field of automatic control made while the nominee was a resident of the USA. |
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| Citation: For pioneering contributions to hybrid
control systems and embedded software for real-time control, with
application to air traffic control, avionics, and computational biology. |
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| Claire Tomlin received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.
Since September 1998 she has been an Assistant Professor in the Depart- ment of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. She is a graduate fellow in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University in 1994, and she has been a visiting researcher at NASA Ames Research Center during 1994-1998, at Honeywell Technology Center in 1997, and at the University of British Columbia in 1994. |
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| Claire Tomlin is a recipient of the AIAA Outstanding
Teacher Award, Stanford (2001), NSF Career Award, Stanford (1999),
Terman Fellowship, Stanford (1998), the Bernard Friedman Memorial
Prize in Applied Mathematics, Berkeley (1998), and the Zonta Amelia
Earhart Award for Aeronautics Research (1996-98). She was an invited
participant in the National Academy of Engineeringˇ¦s Frontiers of
Engineering Program in 2002,and she is currently a member of DARPAˇ¦s
Information Systems and Technology (ISAT) study group. Her research
interests are in hybrid systems,air traffic control automation, fight
management system analysis and design,and modeling and analysis of
biological cell networks. |
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John R. Ragazzini Award - Stephen Boyd |
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The John R. Ragazzini Award is given to recognize outstanding contributions to automatic control education in any form. These contributions can be from any source and in any media, i.e., electronic,publications,courses, etc. |
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Citation: For excellence in classroom teaching,
textbook and monograph preparation, and undergraduate and graduate
mentoring of students in the area of systems, control, and optimization. |
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| Stephen P. Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, Professor
of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the Information Systems
Laboratory at Stanford University. His current interests include computer-aided
control system design, and convex programming applications in control,
signal processing, and circuit design. Professor Boyd received an
AB degree in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University
in 1980, and a PhD in EECS from U. C. Berkeley in 1985. In 1985 he
joined the faculty of Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department.
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| Professor Boyd has held visiting Professor positions at Katholieke University (Leuven), McGill University (Montreal), Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Lausanne), Qinghua University (Beijing), Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), and Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). In 1999, during a leave from Stanford, he co-founded the company Barcelona Design, which develops tools for CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuit synthesis. Professor Boyd is the author of many research articles and three books: Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance (with C. Barratt, 1991), Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and ControlTheory (with L. El Ghaoui, E. Feron, and V. Balakrishnan, 1994)and Convex Optimization (with L. Vandenberghe, 2003). Professor Boyd's honors include an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1992 AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, and a Hugo Schuck best paper award (with H. Hindi and B. Hassibi). His teaching awards include the Perrin Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in the School of Engineering, and an ASSU Graduate Teaching Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE control systems society from 1989 to 1992. | ||||
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Control Engineering Practice Award - Edgar Bristol |
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| The Control Engineering Practice Award is given to an individual or team for significant contributions to the advancement of the practice of automatic control. The primary criterion for selection is the application and implementation of innovative control concepts, methodology, and technology, for the planning, design, manufacture, and operation of control systems. Achievement and usefulness will be evidenced by the bene . t to society and by the degree of acceptance by those who use control as a tool. The work on which the nomination is based must have been performed while the nominated individual or at least one member of the team was a resident of the USA. | ||||
| Citation: For pioneering contributions to the relative gain array, pattern recognition, and adaptive control,and their innovative application to industrial process control. | ||||
| Edgar H. Bristol is a graduate of MIT and Beloit College in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He career has spanned some forty years at the Foxboro Co. , where he is now resisting retirement (http://homepage.mac.com/ebristol/). He has authored over 100 papers and has numerous patents in control, adaptive control, multivariable control, and control software. He has participated in a number of Process Control Standards efforts dating back to the beginning of the "Purdue Workshop". |  |
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| He is the originator of RGA analysis and pattern recognition based adaptive control, for which he received the IEEE Control Technology Award and similar AICh and ISA awards. He is currently a fellow of the ISA, and a current or past member of the IEEE, AIChE, ACM, and MAA, and is active nationally and locally in a number of groups within these organizations. | ||||
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O. Hugo Shuck Best Paper Awards |
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| The O. Hugo Schuck Awards are given to recognize the best two papers presented at the previous American Control Conference. One award is for a paper emphasizing contributions to theory and the other award is for a paper emphasizing significant or innovative application. Criteria for selection include the quality of the written and oral presentation, the technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality. This year only the theoretical contribution paper has been selected for an O. Hugo Schuck Award. The award winning paper is: | ||||
| "Disturbance propagation in large interconnected systems", P. Seiler, A. Pant, and K. Hedrick. | ||||
| Peter Seiler received B. S. degrees in Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. In December of 2002, he received a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He then remained at Berkeley for one year as a post-doctoral scholar. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include nonlinear and robust control, system identification, and biological feedback systems. |  |
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| Aniruddha Pant received a B. E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune, India in 1994. He received an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997. He received a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. He spent a year as a post-doctoral student working at Berkeley as part of the ONR ˇ¦s AINS program. He is currently a scientist at Tata Research Development and Design Center (TRDDC)in Pune, India. His research interests include nonlinear and robust control, systems theory, and optimization applied to engineering and business applications. |  |
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| Karl Hedrick received his B. S. from the University of Michigan and the M. S. and Ph. D. from Stanford University in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering in 1971. He taught at Arizona State University from 1970 to 1974, MIT from 1974 to 1988, and is currently the James Marshall Wells Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is also the Director of The California PATH research program. His research interests are in nonlinear control, vehicle dynamics, and the control of decentralized systems. He was recently appointed the Director of the Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles supported by ONR's AINS program. |  |
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