Historical Figures in Systems and Control
These people have made outstanding contributions to systems and control, but are no longer active.
| Given Names | Last Name | Institution | Year | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Ross | Ashby | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Made many early contributions to cybernetics and complex systems, such as the concept of variety (cybernetics). | |
| Robert | Park | 1929 | Published last century's 2nd ranked power engineering paper for developing Park Transform of AC machines with time-invariant-coefficient LDEs, widely used for vector control in AC drive & other power electronics applications. | |
| Richard | Bellman | 1953 | Developed Dynamic programming | |
| Harold Stephen | Black | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1927 | Invented the negative feedback amplifier |
| Hendrik | Bode | 1945 | Published Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design (Van Nostrand), invented the Bode plot and introduced the Bode integral formula. | |
| Nikolay | Bogoliubov | Together with Nikolay Krylov developed the describing function method as an approximate procedure for analyzing nonlinear control problems. | ||
| Leonhard | Euler | 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 | Developed the root locus method for feedback design. | ||
| Joseph | Fourier | Introduced the Fourier series, allowing analysis in the frequency domain. | ||
| Ernst A. | Guillemin | Developed techniques for analysis and synthesis of networks of RLC components. | ||
| Harold | Hazen | 1934 | Author of Theory of Servomechanisms. | |
| Andrey | Kolmogorov | Co-developer of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filter. Formulated the Kolmogorov forward and backward equations in the theory of stochastic processes. | ||
| Nikolay | Krylov | together with Nikolay Bogoliubov developed the describing function method as an approximate procedure for analyzing nonlinear control problems. | ||
| Alexander | Lyapunov | 1892 | His paper Sur le problème général de la stabilité du mouvement (in French) marks the beginning of stability theory. | |
| Nicolas | Minorsky | 1922 | Ship designer, was the first to provide an analysis of the three term (or PID) controller and to suggest its use for ship steering. | |
| Nathaniel B. | Nichols | 1947 | Developed the Nichols chart. Published Theory of Servomechanisms with H. M. James and R. S. Phillips. | |
| Harry | Nyquist | 1927 | Developed the Nyquist stability criterion for feedback systems (1932) and co-developed Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem. | |
| Lev | Pontryagin | Main author of Pontryagin's minimum principle for optimal control problems. | ||
| Vasile | Popov | Developed the Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma and the Popov criterion for stability. | ||
| John R. | Ragazzini | 1954 | His book Sampled-data control systems introduced digital control and the z-transform. | |
| Edward John | Routh | Early theorist, developed Routh-Hurwitz theorem and Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion. | ||
| Claude E. | Shannon | Developed information theory and pioneered switching theory. | ||
| John | Tukey | Developed the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm, which made frequency analysis easy to implement. | ||
| Norbert | Wiener | Co-developer of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filter. Coined the term Cybernetics. Studied the stochastic process known as the Wiener process. | ||
| Charles H. | Wilts | 1953 | Caltech professor, author of New electric analog computers and their application to aircraft design problemsand Principles of Feedback Control (1960). Rock climber. | |
| Vladimir Andreevich | Yakubovich | Saint Petersburg State University | 1996 | Pioneered the usage of Linear Matrix Inequalities in control theory. Considered as the father of the field. |
| George | Zames | McGill University | Developed robust control theory, including the small gain theorem and H infinity control. |
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