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IFAC Automatica Paper Prizes have been given since 1981 for
outstanding contributions to the theory and/or practice of control
engineering or control sciences documented in a paper published in
the IFAC Journal Automatica. The prize funds for three prizes are
given by the publisher of Automatica, Elsevier Science Ltd. Three
papers are selected in the categories of Survey, Theory/Methodology,
and Application by the Automatica Prize Selection Subcommittee from
those published in IFAC Journal Automatica in the past triennium and
the prizes are presented at the Opening Ceremony of IFAC
Congress.
The subcommittee is formed under the IFAC Award Committee after
each IFAC Congress held triannually. For 2002, Torsten Söderström,
Uppsala University, and Katsuhisa Furuta were appointed to the chair
of the IFAC Award Committee and that of the Automatica Prize
Selection Subcommittee. The members of 2002 subcommittee are Huibert
Kwakernaak, Tamer Basar, Sergio Bittanti, Peter Dorato, Vladimir
Kucera, N.Harris McClamroch, and Masayoshi Tomizuka. Automatica
Editors were requested to point out the candidate papers and
subcommittee members pointed out additional papers.
The subcommittee selected the following three papers for the 2002
IFAC Automatica Paper Prizes in the categories of Survey,
Theory/Methodology, and Application, respectively.
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Blanchini, F., "Set invariance in control"(Survey Paper),
Automatica 35(11), 1747-1767, November 1999.
Citation: This paper successfully surveys the positive
invariant set and its applications to wide variety of control
problems including Lyapunov function and constrained control.
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Vidyasagar, M., "Randomized algorithms for robust controller
synthesis using statistical learning theory"(Theory/Methodology),
Automatica 37(10), 1515-1528, October 2001.
Citation: This paper presents the statistical learning
theory and new results of its use for randomized controller
design.
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Fossen, T.I., J.P. Strand, "Nonlinear passive weather optimal
positioning control (WOPC) system for ships and rigs: experimental
results"(Applications), Automatica 37(5), 701-715, May
2001. Citation: A new concept for marine vessels control is
developed, and its use on a model ship is
presented.
In the last, as the chairman of the selection subcommittee, I
appreciate all cooperations of the editors and the subcommittee
members.
Katsuhisa Furuta,
Chairman, Automatica Paper
Prize Selection Committee,
School of Science and
Engineering,
Tokyo Denki University,
Hatoyama, Hikigun,
Saitama, 350-0394, Japan
E-mail address:
furuta@k.dendai.ac.jp |