Manfred Morari
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Manfred Morari is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota
in 1977. Dr. Morari held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977–1983 and the California Institute of Technology
from 1983-1991. His research areas include Model Predictive Control
, Control of Hybrid Systems, Internal Model Control (IMC)
, and robust control
.
He received in 2005 the IEEE Control Systems Award
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
in 1977. Dr. Morari held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977–1983 and the California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
from 1983-1991. His research areas include Model Predictive Control
Model predictive control
Model Predictive Control, or MPC, is an advanced method of process control that has been in use in the process industries such as chemical plants and oil refineries since the 1980s...
, Control of Hybrid Systems, Internal Model Control (IMC)
Internal model
An internal model is a postulated neural process that simulates the response of the motor system in order to estimate the outcome of a motor command....
, and robust control
Robust control
Robust control is a branch of control theory that explicitly deals with uncertainty in its approach to controller design. Robust control methods are designed to function properly so long as uncertain parameters or disturbances are within some set...
.
He received in 2005 the IEEE Control Systems Award
IEEE Control Systems Award
The IEEE Control Systems Award is a technical field award given to an individual by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science or technology"...