This is an alphabetical list of people who have made significant contributions in the fields ofsystem analysis andcontrol theory.
The eminent researchers (born after 1920) include the winners of at least one award of theIEEE Control Systems Award, theGiorgio Quazza Medal, theHendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, theRichard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, theRufus Oldenburger Medal, or higher awards such as theIEEE Medal of Honor and theNational Medal of Science. The earlier pioneers such asNicolas Minorsky (1885–1970),Harry Nyquist (1889–1976),Harold Locke Hazen (1901–1980),Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987),Hendrik Wade Bode (1905–1982),Gordon S. Brown (1907–1996),John F. Coales (1907–1999),Rufus Oldenburger (1908–1969),John R. Ragazzini (1912–1988),Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997),John Zaborszky (1914–2008) andHarold Chestnut (1917–2001) are not included.
| Name | Institution | Nationality | Contributions | Field | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damiano Brigo | Imperial College | [19] Works on nonlinear filtering (jointly introduced withBernard Hanzon andFrançois Le Gland theprojection filters). | |||
| William L. Brogan | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Author of bookModern Control Theory.ISBN 0-13-589763-7 | |||
| Munther A. Dahleh | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | [20] Co-author ofControl of Uncertain Systems: A Linear Programing Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995). | |||
| Moonyong Lee | Yeungnam University | [21] Adviser ofProcess Systems Design and Control Laboratory. Working on IMC based Optimal Design of Industrial Three Term Controllers, Robust Analytical Design of Multi-loop PID Controllers, Optimization Based Controller Design for Constrained Optimal Control, Advanced Control for Thermally Coupled Distillation Process, Real-time Monitoring and Control Software Package, Optimal Design of Thermally Coupled Distillation Process Including Divided Wall Column. | |||
| Karl Henrik Johansson | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | [22] Works in many areas, including application of hybrid systems and networked control system, security of cyber-physical systems, and model reduction. | IEEE Fellow 2013, Fellow of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science 2017 | |
| Mehran Mesbahi | University of Washington | [23] Works on networks, distributed robotics, aerospace GN&C, and optimization. Co-author of the book "Graph Theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks" (Princeton, 2010). | |||
| Jan H. van Schuppen | Free University of Amsterdam andCWI | [24] is author of more than one hundred publications in control theory, system identification, realization theory and filtering. | |||
| Arjan van der Schaft | University of Groningen | [25] He is notable for his contributions to network modeling and control of complex systems asPort-Hamiltonian systems,Passivity-based Control,[26]Nonlinear H_infty control andHybrid systems. He is a Fellow of the(IEEE). | |||
| S. S. Sritharan | Naval Postgraduate School | [27] ( Developed Deterministic and Stochastic Control Theory and nonlinear filtering for Fluid Dynamics and MHD using Navier–Stokes equations and magnetohydrodynamic equations as state space models). | |||
| Peter Stoica | Uppsala University | [28] Works on System Identification and Modeling. | |||
| Jakob Stoustrup | Aalborg University | [29] Works on loop-transfer recovery, gain scheduled control, fault tolerant control and several other areas. | |||
| Roberto Tempo | CNR-IEIIT, Politecnico di Torino | [30] Author of the book titledRandomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, with Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2013). | |||
| Kevin Warwick | University of Reading | [31] 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. | |||
| Stephen Yurkovich | University of Texas at Dallas | [32] Fellow of the IEEE, and holds the Louis Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is also Program Head of Systems Engineering. | |||
| Yutaka Yamamoto | Kyoto University | Japan | [33] Author of the bookRepetitive Control (in Japanese) and a large number of research, survey and tutorial articles. Fellow of the IEEE. Former Chair of the IEEE Control System (CSS) Society. | ||
| Masayuki Fujita | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | [34] works on passivity-based control in robotics, multi-agent robotics, and robust control. co-author of Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics. | IEEE Fellow 2016 |
These people have made outstanding historical contributions to systems and control.
| Given Names | Last Name | Institution | Year | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Biddell | Airy | 1840 | Early investigations into the instability phenomenon inWattgovernors. | |
| William Ross | Ashby | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | Made many early contributions tocybernetics andcomplex systems, such as the concept ofvariety (cybernetics). | |
| Robert H. | Park | 1929 | Published last century's 2nd-ranked power engineering paper for developingPark Transform of AC machines withtime-invariant-coefficientLDEs, widely used forvector control inAC drive & otherpower electronics applications. | |
| Richard | Bellman | 1953 | Developeddynamic programming | |
| Harold Stephen | Black | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1927 | Invented thenegative-feedback amplifier |
| Hendrik | Bode | 1945 | PublishedNetwork Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design (Van Nostrand), invented theBode plot and introduced theBode integral formula. | |
| Nikolay | Bogolyubov | Together withNikolay Krylov developed thedescribing function method as an approximate procedure for analyzing nonlinear control problems. | ||
| Leonhard | Euler | Developed theLaplace transform, the main tool for analyzingLTI systems. HisEuler–Lagrange equation is the basis for model predictive control. | ||
| Rudolf | Kalman | 1960 | Pioneered the state-space approach to systems and control. Introduced the notions of controllability and observability. Developed theKalman filter for linear estimation. | |
| Walter R. | Evans | Developed theroot locus method for feedback design. | ||
| Gene F. | Franklin | His 1958 text "Sampled-Data Control Systems" introduced digital control to a discipline which had previously operated almost exclusively in the analog domain. | ||
| Joseph | Fourier | Introduced theFourier series, allowing analysis in the frequency domain. | ||
| Ernst A. | Guillemin | Developed techniques for analysis and synthesis of networks ofRLC components. | ||
| Harold | Hazen | 1934 | Author ofTheory of Servomechanisms. | |
| Faina | Kirillova | National Academy of Sciences of Belarus | Developed a constructive theory of extremal problems, proved the quasi-maximum principle for discrete systems, and developed algorithms for adaptive optimization. | |
| Andrey | Kolmogorov | Co-developer of theWiener–Kolmogorov filter. Formulated theKolmogorov forward andbackward equations in the theory of stochastic processes. | ||
| Nikolay | Krylov | together withNikolay Bogolyubov developed thedescribing function method as an approximate procedure for analyzing nonlinear control problems. | ||
| Irmgard | Flügge-Lotz | Stanford University | Developed discontinuous automatic control, which laid the foundation forautomatic on-off aircraft control in jets. | |
| Alexander | Lyapunov | 1892 | His paperSur le problème général de la stabilité du mouvement (in French) marks the beginning ofstability theory. | |
| James Clerk | Maxwell | 1868 | Paper "On governors" investigated the stability ofgovernors in a systematic way and discovered the necessary conditions for stability. | |
| Nicolas | Minorsky | 1922 | Ship designer, was the first to provide an analysis of the three term (orPID) controller and to suggest its use for ship steering. | |
| Nathaniel B. | Nichols | 1947 | Developed theNichols plot. PublishedTheory of Servomechanisms with H. M. James and R. S. Phillips. | |
| Harry | Nyquist | 1927 | Developed theNyquist stability criterion for feedback systems (1932) and co-developedNyquist–Shannon sampling theorem. | |
| Lev | Pontryagin | Main author ofPontryagin's minimum principle for optimal control problems. | ||
| Vasile | Popov | Developed theKalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma and thePopov criterion for stability. | ||
| John R. | Ragazzini | 1954 | His bookSampled-data control systems introduceddigital control and thez-transform. | |
| Edward John | Routh | Early theorist, developedRouth–Hurwitz theorem andRouth–Hurwitz stability criterion. | ||
| Claude E. | Shannon | Developedinformation theory and pioneeredswitching theory. | ||
| John | Tukey | Developed theFast Fourier transform algorithm, which made frequency analysis easy to implement. | ||
| Norbert | Wiener | Co-developer of theWiener-Kolmogorov filter. Coined the termCybernetics. Studied the stochastic process known as theWiener process. | ||
| W. Murray | Wonham | 1974 | Linear Multivariable Control.[35]Supervisory control theory.Internal Model Principle. Pole Assignment Theorem.[36] | |
| Vladimir Andreevich | Yakubovich | Saint Petersburg State University | 1996 | Pioneered the usage oflinear matrix inequalities in control theory.[18] |
| George | Zames | McGill University | Developedrobust control theory, including thesmall-gain theorem andH-infinity control. |
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