People in systems and control

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People in systems and control

People in systems and control is an alphabetical list (in two parts) of people who have made significant contributions in the fields of system analysisSystem analysis

----System analysis is the branch of electrical engineering that characterizes electrical systems and their properties....
and control theoryControl theory Summary

In engineering and mathematics, control theory deals with the behavior of dynamical systems....
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Active researchers

Name	Institution	Contributions
Karl Johan ÅströmKarl Johan Åström Karl Johan ?str?m is a Swedish control theorist notable, who made contributions to the fields of control theory and control...	Lund UniversityLund University Lund University , Universitas Gothorum Carolina, is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden....	Author of five books, including Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory (1970 and Dover, 2006) and (with Wittenmark) of Adaptive Control (Addison-Wesley, 1995).
Tamer BasarTamer Basar Tamer Basar is a Turkish control theorist who holds the Swanlund Endowed Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer...	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Works on dynamic games, control and communication theory, etc.
Michael AthansMichael Athans Michael Athans is a Greek-American control theorist and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Compute...	MIT	Co-author of the book Optimal Control, (McGraw-Hill, 1966). Developed applications of LQ]/LTR control to helicopters and submarines. Works on optimal control and system estimation.
John Baillieul	Boston UniversityBoston University Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts....	Works on robotics, mechanical system control and non-holonomic constraints.
Ross Barmish	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public university located in Madison,Wisconsin....	Author of New Tools for Robustness of Linear Systems (Macmillan, 1994). Two IFAC prizes for papers on robust control.
Bo Bernhardsson	Lund UniversityLund University Lund University , Universitas Gothorum Carolina, is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden....	Currently working at Ericsson Mobile Platforms.
Stephen P. Boyd	Stanford UniversityStanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University , is a private university located approxi...	Works on engineering applications of convex optimization. Winner of John R. Ragazzini Award in control systems.
Roger W. BrockettFacts About Roger W. Brockett Roger Ware Brockett is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineerin...	Harvard UniversityHarvard University "Harvard" redirects here. For other uses of the name Harvard, see Harvard ....	Works on dynamics and control of smart structures.
William L. BroganWilliam L. Brogan William L. Brogan is an American control theorist and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las...	University of Nevada at Las Vegas	Author of book Modern Control Theory. ISBN: 0135897637
Jie Chen	UC Riverside	Co-author of Control-Oriented System Identification: An H-infinity Approach (Wiley Interscience, 2000) and Stability of Time-Delay Systems (Birkhauser, 2003).
John C. Doyle	Caltech	Co-author of (with Zhou and Glover) Robust and Optimal Control (Prentice Hall, 1996), Essentials of Robust Control (1997), and Feedback Control Theory (Macmillan, 1992).
Olav Egeland	NTNUNorwegian University of Science and Technology The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, known by its Norwegian acronym NTNU, is located in Trondheim and i...	Co-author of Modeling and Simulation for Automatic Control (Marine Cybernetics, 2002). Works on marine applications of control.
Thor I. Fossen	NTNUNorwegian University of Science and Technology The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, known by its Norwegian acronym NTNU, is located in Trondheim and i...	Author of "Guidance and Control of Ocean Vehicles" (Wiley, 1994) and Marine Control Systems (Marine Cybernetics, 2002). Works on marine applications of control.
Jim Freudenberg	University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a coeducational public research university in the U.S....	Works on linear multivariable feedback systems.
Laurent El Ghaoui	UC Berkeley	Works on decision-making under uncertainty, convex optimization.
Andrea Gombani	CNRConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche is an Italian public organization with the aim of supporting scientific and technolog...	Specializes in identification and parametrization of stochastic linear systems, robust control.
Karolos Grigoriadis	University of HoustonUniversity of Houston The University of Houston, formerly University of HoustonUniversity Park, is a...	Co-author of A Unified Algebraic Approach to Linear Control Design (Taylor & Francis, 1998). Has worked on control of the Hubble space telescope.
Per Hagander	Lund UniversityLund University Lund University , Universitas Gothorum Carolina, is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden....	Works with linear system theory and with applications in biotechnology and medicine.
Anders HanssonAnders Hansson Anders Hansson, born in 1976, is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006....	Linköping UniversityLinköping University ame =Linkping University\|native_name =Linkpings universitet\|...	Works in many areas including semidefinite programmingSemidefinite programming Semidefinite programming is an area of mathematics concerned with special optimization problems: the optimization of a linea... , convex optimization, model predictive control, design of gain scheduled controllers.
Malo Hautus	Eindhoven University of TechnologyEindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology is a university of technology located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands....	Co-author of Control Theory for Linear Systems (Springer Verlag, 2001).
Yu-Chi “Larry” HoYu-Chi Ho This article is about the Chinese-American mathematician....	Harvard UniversityHarvard University "Harvard" redirects here. For other uses of the name Harvard, see Harvard ....	Co-author of Applied Optimal Control (1969, 1975), the most cited book on the subject. Since 1983 he has been working on discrete event system theory.
Christopher V. Hollot	UMass AmherstUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts....	A generalist on the theory and application of feedback control systems.
Tony Holohan	Dublin City UniversityDublin City University Dublin City University is a university situated in Glasnevin on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland....	Works in robust control and multivariable feedback.
Diederich HinrichsenDiederich Hinrichsen Diederich Hinrichsen is a German mathematician, whom together with Hans W....	University of BremenUniversity of Bremen The University of Bremen is a university of about 23,000 students and 1,427 scientists in Bremen, Germany....	developed a comprehensive theory of linear systems and with A.J. Pritchard a fundamental robustness theory of dynamical systems. Author (with A.J. Pritchard) of Mathematical Systems Theory I. Modelling, State Space Analysis, Stability and Robustness, (Springer Verlag, 2005)
Alberto IsidoriAlberto Isidori Alberto Isidori is an Italian control theorist and a Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Rome....	Washington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. Louis "Washington University" redirects here....	Introduced geometric methods into non-linear control. Author of: Nonlinear Control Systems (Springer Verlag, 1995).
Thomas KailathThomas Kailath Thomas Kailath is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Stanford University....	Stanford UniversityStanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University , is a private university located approxi...	Author of Linear Systems (Prentice Hall, 1980) and co-author of Linear Estimation (Prentice Hall, 2000).
Rudolf KalmanRudolf Kalman Rudolf Emil Kalman is an American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, who is an electrical engineer by training....		Pioneered the state-space approach to systems and control. Introduced the notions of controllability and observability. Developed the Kalman filterKalman filter The Kalman filter is an efficient recursive filter which estimates the state of a dynamic system from a series of incomplete... for linear estimation.
Chris Kirtley	Curtin University of TechnologyCurtin University of Technology Curtin University of Technology is a technology-focused university with its main campus at Bentley, a suburb of Victoria Par...	Medical doctor. Author of a book on clinical gait analysis.
Petar V. KokotovicPetar V. Kokotovic Petar V. Kokotovic is a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara....	UC Santa Barbara	Works on nonlinear control, both adaptive and robust. He initiated the development of back-stepping (a popular, recusrsive, design technique). Industry consultant on control of car and jet engines.
Vladimir Kucera	Czech Technical University in PragueCzech Technical University in Prague Summary ame=Czech Technical University in Prague\|...	, Works on algebraic methods for control design. Author of the book Discrete Linear Control: The Polynomial Equation Approach. (Wiley, 1979).
Alan J. Laub	UCLA	, Works on numerical algorithms and software for control design. Author of the book Matrix Analysis for Scientists and Engineers (SIAM, 2005).
Lennart LjungLennart Ljung Lennart Ljung is a Swedish Professor in the Chair of Control Theory at Link?ping University since 1976....	Linkoping University	, Author of System identification - Theory for the user (Prentice Hall, 1999) and 12 other books. Fellow IEEE.
Jan Maciejowski	Cambridge University	) Works on model predictive control and fault-tolerant control. Author of two books: Predictive Control with Constraints (Prentice Hall, 2002) and Multivariable Feedback Design (Addison-Wesley, 1989).
David Q. Mayne	Imperial College	Works on differential dynamic programming, adaptive control and model predictive control.
Geert Jan Olsder	Delft University	Formerly worked on optimal control, game theory and filter theory, more recently works in discrete event system theory.
Ian Petersen	Australian Research CouncilAustralian Research Council The Australian Research Council is the Australian Governments main agency for allocating research funding to academics and r...	Professorial Fellow. Co-author of two books: Robust Kalman Filtering For Signals and Systems with Large Uncertainties and Robust Control Design using H-infinity Methods (Springer Verlag, 2000).
Mario Rotea	Purdue UniversityPurdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant university whose primary campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana on the bluffs...	Works on optimization and control of dynamical systems, especially as applied to mechanical and aerospace problems.
Ali Saberi	Washington State UniversityWashington State University Washington State University is a major public research university in Pullman, Washington....	Works on nonlinear control, adaptive control and other areas. Author of software for control system design.
Bahram Shafai	Northeastern UniversityNortheastern University Northeastern University has multiple meanings....	Author of Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Linear Control Systems (Prentice Hall, 1992).
Robert E. Skelton	UC San Diego	Works on dynamics and control of ‘tensegrity systems’.
Sigurd Skogestad	NTNUNorwegian University of Science and Technology Overview The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, known by its Norwegian acronym NTNU, is located in Trondheim and i...	Works on process control. Co-author of Multivariable Feedback Control-Analysis and design (Wiley, 1996, 2005).
Eduardo D. SontagEduardo D. Sontag Eduardo Sontag is an American mathematician who works in...	Rutgers UniversityRutgers University image = \|name = Rutgers University...	( Studied under R. Kalman. Author of Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional Systems (Springer, 1998). Introduced the notion of a 'control Lyapunov function' (CLF).
Anton Stoorvogel	Eindhoven University of TechnologyEindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology is a university of technology located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands....	Author of The H-infinity control problem: a state space approach (Prentice-Hall, 1992), and co-author of Control of linear systems with regulation and input constraints, (Springer Verlag, 2000) and Control theory for linear systems (Springer Verlag, 2001).
Jakob Stoustrup	Aalborg University	) Works on loop-transfer recovery, gain scheduled control, fault tolerant control and several other areas.
Gang Tao	University of VirginiaUniversity of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, established by Thomas Jefferson....	Author of 5 books including Adaptive control design and analysis (Wiley, 2003).
Masayoshi Tomizuka	University of CaliforniaUniversity of California The University of California is a public university system in the state of California....	) Contributed to theories and applications of adaptive control, computer-aided manufacturing, control systems and theory, digital control, dynamic systems, manufacturing, and mechanical vibrations. (Information storage systems, automated highway systems)
Paul Van den Hof	Delft University	Works on the wide area of identification and model-based control of dynamical systems, with applications in industrial processes, mechanical servo systems and physical measurement systems.
Michel Verhaegen	Delft University	Works on control of adaptive optics, control of wind turbines.
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar	Tata Consultancy ServicesTata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services Limited is an Indian information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing...	Formerly a professor in the USA and Canada. Author of Nonlinear systems analysis (Prentice Hall, 1993 and SIAM, 2002).
Kevin WarwickKevin Warwick Kevin Warwick is a cybernetics professor at the University of Reading, England....	University of ReadingUniversity of Reading Summary The University of Reading is a campus university in the English town of Reading, UK....	Developed the first state-space based self-tuning controller, now involved more in application studies of feedback control, particularly where a human is part of the system.
Jan C. Willems	University of GroningenUniversity of Groningen The University of Groningen is a university in Groningen, Netherlands....	Author of The analysis of feedback systems (1971). Worked on LQ control, dissipative systems and linear matrix inequalities. Co-author of Introduction to mathematical system theory – a behavioral approach (Wiley, 1998), where the behavioral approach is a representation free way to discuss system dynamics.
Björn Wittenmark	Lund UniversityLund University Summary Lund University , Universitas Gothorum Carolina, is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden....	Works in many areas including process control and adaptive control. Co-author of two books with Åström.
Yutaka YamamotoYutaka Yamamoto There a number of people named Yutaka Yamamoto...	Kyoto UniversityKyoto University Overview Research Reactor InstitutePrimate Research Institute...	Author of the book Repetitive Control (in Japanese) and a large number of research, survey and tutorial articles. Fellow of the IEEE.
Michael Zeitz	University of StuttgartUniversity of Stuttgart Summary The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany....	Working on nonlinear observation and control. For the latter, he is especially concerned with differential flatness and system inversion of dynamical systems. He also developed the Extended Luenberger Observer as well as the Observability Normal Form for nonlinear systems.
Kemin Zhou	Louisiana State UniversityLouisiana State University Louisiana State University, generally known as LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Loui...	Co-author (with Doyle and Glover) of the book Robust and optimal control (Prentice-Hall, 1996).

Historical figures in systems and control

These people have made outstanding contributions to systems and control, but are no longer active.

Name	Institution	Contributions
William Ross AshbyWilliam Ross Ashby William Ross Ashby was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in the study of complex systems....		Made many early contributions to cyberneticsCybernetics Overview Cybernetics is the study of communication and control, typically involving regulatory feedback, in living organisms, in mach... and complex systemsComplex systems Complex systems is a scientific field, which studies the common properties of systems considered complex in nature, society ... , such as the concept of variety (cybernetics)Variety (cybernetics) In cybernetics the term variety denotes the total number of distinct states of a system. ... .
Richard BellmanRichard Bellman Richard Ernest Bellman was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and import...		Developed Dynamic programmingDynamic programming In computer science, dynamic programming is a method for reducing the runtime of algorithms exhibiting the properties of ove... (1953).
Harold S. BlackHarold Stephen Black Harold Stephen Black was an electrical engineer who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negativ...		Invented the negative feedback amplifierFeedback amplifier A feedback amplifier, also known as negative feedback amplifier is an amplifier which uses a feedback network, general... (1927).
Hendrik BodeHendrik Wade Bode Hendrik Wade Bode,Van Valkenburg, M., "In memoriam: Hendrik W....		Published Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design (Van Nostrand, 1945), invented the Bode plotBode plot A Bode plot, named for Hendrik Wade Bode, is usually a combination of a Bode magnitude plot and Bode phase plot:... and introduced the Bode integral formula.
Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician and physicist....		Developed the Laplace transformLaplace transform In mathematics, the Laplace transform is a powerful technique for analyzing linear time-invariant systems such as electrica... , the main tool for analyzing LTILTI system theory In electrical engineering, specifically in circuits, signal processing, and control theory, LTI system theory investigates t... systems. His Euler-Lagrange equationEuler-Lagrange equation The Euler-Lagrange equation, developed by Leonhard Euler and Joseph-Louis Lagrange in the 1750s, is the major formula of the... is the basis for model predictive control.
Walter R. EvansWalter R. Evans Walter R. Evans was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948....		Developed the root locusRoot locus In control theory, the root locus is the locus of the poles of a transfer function as the system gain K is varied on som... method for feedback design.
Joseph FourierJoseph Fourier Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of ...		Introduced the Fourier seriesFourier series The Fourier series is a mathematical tool used for analyzing an arbitrary periodic function by decomposing it into a weighte... , allowing analysis in the frequency domain.
Ernst A. Guillemin		Developed techniques for analysis and synthesis of networks of RLCRLC circuit An RLC circuit is an electrical circuit consisting of a resistor, an inductor, and a capacitor, connected in series or in pa... components.
Harold Hazen		Author of Theory of Servomechanisms, 1934.
Andrey KolmogorovAndrey Kolmogorov Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was a Soviet mathematician who made major advances in the fields of probability theory and top...		Co-developer of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filterWiener filter The Wiener filter is a filter proposed by Norbert Wiener during the 1940s and published in 1949. ... . Formulated the Kolmogorov forwardFokker-Planck equation The Fokker-Planck equation describes the time evolution of the probability density function of position and velocity of a pa... and backwardKolmogorov backward equation The Kolmogorov backward equation and its adjoint the Kolmogorov forward equation are partial differential equations th... equations in the theory of stochastic processes.
Alexander Lyapunov		His paper Sur le probleme general de la stabilite du mouvement (1892) (in French) marks the beginning of stability theoryStability theory In mathematics, stability theory deals with the stability of the solutions of differential equations and dynamical systems.... .
Nicolas Minorsky		Ship designer, was the first to provide an analysis of the three term (or PIDPID controller A proportional-integral-derivative controller is a common feedback loop component in industrial control systems .... ) controller and to suggest its use for ship steering (1922).
Nathaniel B. NicholsNathaniel B. Nichols Nathaniel B. Nichols was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory....		Developed the Nichols chart. Published Theory of Servomechanisms with H. M. James and R. S. Phillips, 1947.
Harry NyquistHarry Nyquist Harry Nyquist was an important contributor to information theory....		Developed the Nyquist stability criterionNyquist stability criterion The Nyquist stability criterion, named for Harry Nyquist, provides a simple test for stability of a closed-loop control syst... for feedback systems (1932) and co-developed Nyquist–Shannon sampling theoremNyquist–Shannon sampling theorem The NyquistShannon sampling theorem is a fundamental result in the field of information theory, in particular telecommunicat... (1927).
Lev Semenovich PontryaginLev Semenovich Pontryagin Lev Semenovich Pontryagin was a Soviet Russian mathematician....		Main author of Pontryagin's minimum principlePontryagin's minimum principle Pontryagin's minimum principle is used in optimal control theory to find the best possible control for taking a dynamic syst... for optimal control problems.
Vasile M. PopovVasile M. Popov Summary Vasile Mihai Popov is a leading systems theorist and control engineering specialist....		Developed the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemmaKalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma The Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma is a result in system analysis and control theory which states: Given a number , two n-vec... and the Popov criterionNon-linear control Non-linear control is a sub-division of control engineering which deals with the control of non-linear systems.... for stability.
John R. RagazziniJohn R. Ragazzini John Ralph Ragazzini was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering....		His book Sampled-data control systems, 1954, introduced digital controlDigital control Digital control is a branch of control theory that uses digital computers to act as a system.... and the z-transformZ-transform In mathematics and signal processing, the Z-transform converts a discrete time domain signal, which is a sequence of real nu... .
Edward John Routh		Early theorist, developed Routh-Hurwitz theorem and Routh-Hurwitz stability criterionRouth-Hurwitz stability criterion The Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion is a necessary method to establish the stability of a single-input, single-output, lin... .
Claude E. Shannon		Developed information theoryInformation theory Information theory is a discipline in applied mathematics involving the quantification of data with the goal of enabling as ... and pioneered switching theory.
John TukeyJohn Tukey John Wilder Tukey was a statistician born in New Bedford, Massachusetts....		Developed the Fast Fourier TransformFast Fourier transform A fast Fourier transform is an efficient algorithm to compute the discrete Fourier transform and its inverse.... algorithm, which made frequency analysis easy to implement.
Norbert WienerNorbert Wiener Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician....		Co-developer of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filterWiener filter The Wiener filter is a filter proposed by Norbert Wiener during the 1940s and published in 1949. ... . Coined the term CyberneticsCybernetics Cybernetics is the study of communication and control, typically involving regulatory feedback, in living organisms, in mach... . Studied the stochastic process known as the Wiener processWiener process In mathematics, the Wiener process, so named in honor of Norbert Wiener, is a continuous-time Gaussian stochastic process wi... .
Charles H. Wilts		Caltech professor, author of New electric analog computers and their application to aircraft design problems (1953) and Principles of Feedback Control (1960).
George ZamesGeorge Zames George Zames was a control theorist and professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada....	McGill UniversityMcGill University McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montre...	Developed robust controlRobust control In robust control, the word "robust" means that the controller or regulator should work well even if the system to be contro... theory, including the small gain theorem and H infinity control.

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People in systems and control

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