Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
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The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award (since 1979) given by the American Automatic Control Council
(AACC) for achievements in control theory
, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given for "distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control
", and it is the "highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control system
s engineers and scientists".
American Automatic Control Council
The American Automatic Control Council is an organization founded in 1956 for research in control theory. It is an association of the control systems divisions of eight member societies and a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control....
(AACC) for achievements in control theory
Control theory
Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...
, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given for "distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control
Automatic control
Automatic control is the application of concepts derived from the research area of modern control theory. Automatic control is also a technology for application of control strategies. The implementing requires prior of analyzing and modeling of the subject to be controlled...
", and it is the "highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control system
Control system
A control system is a device, or set of devices to manage, command, direct or regulate the behavior of other devices or system.There are two common classes of control systems, with many variations and combinations: logic or sequential controls, and feedback or linear controls...
s engineers and scientists".
Recipients
Following people received the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award:- 1979: Hendrik Wade BodeHendrik Wade BodeHendrik Wade Bode , was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist], of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.He made important contributions...
- 1980: Nathaniel B. NicholsNathaniel B. NicholsNathaniel B. Nichols was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory. He is well-known for his book Theory of Servomechanism, one of the most widely read books in control engineering....
- 1981: Charles Stark DraperCharles Stark DraperCharles Stark Draper was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which under his direction designed and built the Apollo...
- 1982: Irving LefkowitzIrving LefkowitzIrving Lefkowitz is a control engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Case Western Reserve University who made significant contributions to process dynamics, advanced control, and computer-based integrated and hierarchical systems control. Lefkowitz is a Life Fellow of the IEEE Control Systems...
- 1983: John V. BreakwellJohn V. BreakwellJohn V. Breakwell was a noted American control theorist and a Professor of Astronautics at Stanford University. He is remembered for his contributions to the "science and applications of astrodynamics, for discovery of flight-trajectory optimization, and for outstanding academic service"...
- 1984: Richard E. Bellman
- 1985: Harold ChestnutHarold ChestnutHarold Chestnut was an American electrical engineer, who contributed to the development of the fields of control theory and systems engineering.- Biography :...
- 1986: John ZaborszkyJohn ZaborszkyJohn Zaborszky was a noted Hungarian applied mathematician and a professor in the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University. He received the Richard E...
- 1987: John C. LozierJohn C. LozierJohn C. Lozier is a noted American control engineer. He was responsible for the control of the Telstar ground-tracking antenna installed near Andover, Maine, and the Brittany Peninsula in France...
- 1988: Walter R. EvansWalter R. EvansWalter Richard Evans was a noted American control theorist and the inventor of the root locus method in 1948. He was the recipient of the 1987 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 1988 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.-Biography:He was born on...
- 1989: Roger W. BrockettRoger W. BrockettRoger Ware Brockett is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.-Biography:...
- 1990: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
- 1991: John G. TruxalJohn G. TruxalJohn G. Truxal was an American control theorist and a Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus at the State University of New York. Truxal was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is noted for his numerous contributions to control theory, for which he received the Richard E....
- 1992: Rutherford ArisRutherford ArisRutherford "Gus" Aris was a chemical engineer and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota.- Early life :...
- 1993: Eliahu I. Jury
- 1994: Jose B. Cruz, Jr.Jose B. Cruz, Jr.Jose B. Cruz, Jr. is a noted control theorist and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of Richard E...
- 1995: Michael AthansMichael AthansMichael Athans is a Greek-American control theorist and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the AAAS...
- 1996: Elmer G. GilbertElmer G. GilbertElmer G. Gilbert is an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan.He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award Elmer G. Gilbert is an American aerospace engineer and a...
- 1997: Rudolf E. Kalman
- 1998: Lotfi Asker ZadehLotfi Asker ZadehLotfali Askar Zadeh , better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh, is a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artifical intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley...
- 1999: Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi HoThis article is about the Chinese-American mathematician.Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho is a renowned Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.He is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential...
- 2000: W. Harmon RayW. Harmon RayWillis Harmon Ray is an American chemical engineer and a Vilas Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.He is a Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Ray is a noted control theorist, and in 2000, he...
- 2001: A.V. BalakrishnanA.V. BalakrishnanA.V. Balakrishnan is an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a recipient of the Richard E...
- 2002: Petar V. KokotovicPetar V. KokotovicPetar V. Kokotovic is a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control....
- 2003: Kumpati S. NarendraKumpati S. NarendraKumpati S. Narendra is an American control theorist, who currently holds the Harold W. Cheel Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. He received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2003. He is noted "for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and...
- 2004: Harold J. KushnerHarold J. KushnerHarold J. Kushner is an American applied mathematician and a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He is known for his work on the theory of stochastic stability , the theory of non-linear filtering , and for the development of numerical methods for stochastic control...
- 2005: Gene F. FranklinGene F. FranklinGene F. Franklin is an American control theorist and a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University.He is a recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2005 for "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of digital, modern, adaptive, and...
- 2006: Tamer BasarTamer BasarTamer Başar is a Turkish control theorist who holds the Swanlund Endowed Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA....
- 2007: Sanjoy K. MitterSanjoy K. MitterSanjoy Kumar Mitter is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT who is a noted control theorist. He has received both the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council and the IEEE Control Systems Award...
- 2008: Pravin VaraiyaPravin VaraiyaPravin Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department ofElectrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963 also from Berkeley....
- 2009: George LeitmannGeorge LeitmannGeorge Leitmann is an American control theorist and an emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is considered to be one of the leading authorities in optimal control theory and its applications.He received his Ph.D...
- 2010: Dragoslav D. ŠiljakDragoslav D. ŠiljakDragoslav D. Šiljak is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, where he holds the title of Benjamin and Mae Swig University Professor. He received the Ph.D...