People in systems and control

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People in systems and control is an alphabetical list (in two parts) of people who have made significant contributions in the fields of System analysis and Control theory.

[edit] Active researchers

Karl Johan Åström ^[1] (Lund University) Author of five books, including Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory (1970 and Dover, 2006) and (with Wittenmark) of Adaptive Control (Addison-Wesley, 1995).

Michael Athans ^[2] (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 ^[3] (Boston University) Works on robotics, mechanical system control and non-holonomic constraints.

Ross Barmish ^[4] (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Author of New Tools for Robustness of Linear Systems (Macmillan, 1994). Two IFAC prizes for papers on robust control.

Bo Bernhardsson ^[5] (Lund University) Currently working at Ericsson Mobile Platforms.

Stephen P. Boyd ^[6] (Stanford University) Works on engineering applications of convex optimization. Winner of John R. Ragazzini Award in control systems.

Roger W. Brockett ^[7] (Harvard University) Works on dynamics and control of smart structures.

Jie Chen ^[8] (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 ^[9] (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 ^[10] (NTNU) Co-author of Modeling and Simulation for Automatic Control (Marine Cybernetics, 2002). Works on marine applications of control.

Thor I. Fossen ^[11] (Marine Cybernetics) Works on marine applications of control.

Jim Freudenberg ^[12] (University of Michigan) Works on linear multivariable feedback systems.

Laurent El Ghaoui ^[13] (UC Berkeley) Works on decision-making under uncertainty, convex optimization.

Andrea Gombani ^[14] (CNR) Specializes in identification and parametrization of stochastic linear systems, robust control.

Karolos Grigoriadis ^[15] (University of Houston) 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 ^[16] (Lund University) Works with linear system theory and with applications in biotechnology and medicine.

Anders Hansson ^[17] (Linköping University) Works in many areas including semidefinite programming, convex optimization, model predictive control, design of gain scheduled controllers.

Malo Hautus ^[18] (Eindhoven University of Technology) Co-author of Control Theory for Linear Systems (Springer Verlag, 2001).

Yu-Chi “Larry” Ho ^[19] (Harvard University) 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 ^[20] (UMass Amherst) A generalist on the theory and application of feedback control systems.

Tony Holohan ^[21] (Dublin City University) Works in robust control and multivariable feedback.

Diederich Hinrichsen ^[22] (University of Bremen) 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 Isidori ^[23] (Washington University in St. Louis) Introduced geometric methods into non-linear control. Author of: Nonlinear Control Systems (Springer Verlag, 1995).

Thomas Kailath ^[24] (Stanford University) Author of Linear Systems (Prentice Hall, 1980) and co-author of Linear Estimation (Prentice Hall, 2000).

Rudolf Kalman ^[25] Pioneered the state-space approach to systems and control. Introduced the notions of controllability and observability. Developed the Kalman filter for linear estimation.

Chris Kirtley ^[26] (Curtin University of Technology) Medical doctor. Author of a book on clinical gait analysis.

Petar V. Kokotovic ^[27] (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 ^[28] (CVUT Praha), Works on algebraic methods for control design. Author of the book Discrete Linear Control: The Polynomial Equation Approach. (Wiley, 1979).

Alan J. Laub ^[29] (UCLA), Works on numerical algorithms and software for control design. Author of the book Matrix Analysis for Scientists and Engineers (SIAM, 2005).

Lennart Ljung ^[30] (Linkoping_University), Author of System identification - Theory for the user (Prentice Hall, 1999) and 12 other books. Fellow IEEE.

Jan Maciejowski ^[31] (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 FRS ^[32] (Imperial College) Works on differential dynamic programming, adaptive control and model predictive control.

Geert Jan Olsder ^[33] (Delft University) Formerly worked on optimal control, game theory and filter theory, more recently works in discrete event system theory.

Ian Petersen ^[34] Australian Research Council 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 ^[35] (Purdue University) Works on optimization and control of dynamical systems, especially as applied to mechanical and aerospace problems.

Ali Saberi ^[36] (Washington State University) Works on nonlinear control, adaptive control and other areas. Author of software for control system design.

Bahram Shafai ^[37] (Northeastern University) Author of Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Linear Control Systems (Prentice Hall, 1992).

Robert E. Skelton ^[38] (UC San Diego) Works on dynamics and control of ‘tensegrity systems’.

Sigurd Skogestad ^[39] (NTNU) Works on process control. Co-author of Multivariable Feedback Control-Analysis and design (Wiley, 1996, 2005).

Eduardo D. Sontag ^[40] (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 ^[41] (Eindhoven University of Technology) 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 ^[42] (Aalborg University) Works on loop-transfer recovery, gain scheduled control, fault tolerant control and several other areas.

Gang Tao ^[43] (University of Virginia) Author of 5 books including Adaptive control design and analysis (Wiley, 2003).

Masayoshi Tomizuka ^[44] (University 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)

Michel Verhaegen ^[45] (Delft University) Works on control of adaptive optics, control of wind turbines.

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar ^[46] Currently with Tata Consultancy Services. Formerly a professor in the USA and Canada. Author of Nonlinear systems analysis (Prentice Hall, 1993 and SIAM, 2002).

Jan C. Willems ^[47] (University of Groningen) 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 ^[48] (Lund University) Works in many areas including process control and adaptive control. Co-author of two books with Åström.

Yutaka Yamamoto ^[49] (Kyoto University) Author of the book Repetitive Control (in Japanese) and a large number of research, survey and tutorial articles. Fellow of the IEEE.

Michael Zeitz ^[50](University of Stuttgart) is working on nonlinear observation and control. In assosiation with Veit Hagenmeyer he developed the principle of flatness of dynamical systems. He also developed the Extended Luenberger Observer as well as the Observability Normal Form for nonlinear systems.

Kemin Zhou ^[51] (Louisiana State University) Co-author (with Doyle and Glover) of the book Robust and optimal control (Prentice-Hall, 1996).

[edit] Historical figures in systems and control

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

Richard Bellman (1920-1984). Developed Dynamic programming (1953).

Harold S. Black (1898-1983). Invented the negative feedback amplifier (1927).

Hendrik Bode (1905-1982). Published Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design (Van Nostrand, 1945), invented the Bode plot.

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). Developed the Laplace transform, the main tool for analyzing LTI systems. His Euler-Lagrange equation is the basis for model predictive control.

Walter R. Evans (1920-1999). Developed the root locus method for feedback design.

Joseph Fourier (1768-1830). Introduced the Fourier series, allowing analysis in the frequency domain.

Ernst A. Guillemin (1898-1970). Developed techniques for analysis and synthesis of networks of RLC components.

Harold Hazen (1901-1980). Author of Theory of Servomechanisms, 1934.

Andrey Kolmogorov (1903-1987). Co-developer of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filter. Formulated the Kolmogorov forward and backward equations in the theory of stochastic processes.

Alexander Lyapunov (1857-1918). His paper Sur le probleme general de la stabilite du mouvement (1892) (in French) marks the beginning of stability theory.

Nicolas Minorsky (1885-1970). Ship designer, was the first to provide an analysis of the three term (or PID) controller and to suggest its use for ship steering (1922).

Nathaniel Nichols (1914-1997). Developed the Nichols chart. Published Theory of Servomechanisms with H. M. James and R. S. Phillips, 1947.

Harry Nyquist (1889-1976). Developed the Nyquist stability criterion for feedback systems (1932) and co-developed Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem (1927).

Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (1908-1988). Main author of Pontryagin's minimum principle for optimal control problems.

Vasile M. Popov (1928- ). Developed the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma and the Popov criterion for stability.

John R. Ragazzini (1912-1988). His book Sampled-data control systems, 1954, introduced digital control and the z-transform.

Edward John Routh (1831–1907) Early theorist, developed Routh-Hurwitz theorem and Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion.

Claude E. Shannon (1916-2001). Developed information theory and pioneered switching theory.

John Tukey (1915-2000). Developed the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm, which made frequency analysis easy to implement.

Norbert Wiener (1894-1964). Co-developer of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filter. Coined the term Cybernetics. Studied the stochastic process known as the Wiener process.