Michael Athans

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Michael Athans
Optimal Control Theory
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Bang-Bang Control of Real Pole Systems
Doctoral advisorOtto J. M. Smith[1]

Michael Athans (born Michael Athanassiades in

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 2011.[3]

Education

Athans received his

Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, 1959, and 1961, respectively.[citation needed
]

Academic career

From 1961 to 1964, Athans was employed as a member of the technical staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory,

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) from 1974 to 1981. In 1978 he co-founded ALPHATECH Inc., Burlington, Mass., where he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He has also consulted for numerous other industrial organizations and government panels. In 1995 he was Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. From 1997 to 2011 he was an Invited Research Professor in the Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.[4]

Athans is the co-author of Optimal Control (McGraw Hill, 1966), Systems, Networks and Computation: Basic Concepts (McGraw Hill, 1972) and Systems, Networks and Computation: Multivariable Methods (McGraw Hill, 1974). In 1974 he developed 65 color TV lectures and study guides on Modern Control Theory. In addition he authored or co-authored over 350 technical papers and reports. His research interests and contributions span the areas of optimum system and estimation theory,

human immune system
and robust adaptive control methodologies.

In 1964 Athans was the first recipient of the American Automatic Control Council's Donald P. Eckman Award "for outstanding contributions to the field of automatic control".[citation needed] In 1969 he was the first recipient of the Frederick E. Terman Award of the American Society for Engineering Education as "the outstanding young electrical engineering educator."[citation needed] In 1980 he received the second Education Award of the American Control Council for his "outstanding contributions and distinguished leadership in automatic control education."[citation needed] In 1973 he was elected Fellow of the IEEE and in 1977 Fellow of the AAAS. In 1983 he was elected Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He received the 1993 H.W. Bode Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, which also included the delivery of the Bode Plenary Lecture at the 1993 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. He was the recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award of the American Automatic Control Council "In Recognition of a Distinguished Career in Automatic Control; As a Leader and Champion of Innovative Research; As a Contributor to Fundamental Knowledge in Optimal, Adaptive, Robust, Decentralized and Distributed Control; and as a Mentor to his Students" presented in June 1995 at the American Control Conference. In 1996 he was awarded honorary doctorates from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and from the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece. In July 2002 he was awarded the Ktisivos Award, “In recognition of contributions to control and estimation theory, awarded by the Mediterranean Control and Automation Association. He was the recipient of a Polish Academy of Sciences Medal, “For contributions to Control Theory” in Warsaw, Poland, on June 30, 2005. In 2006 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) elected him Life Fellow.[citation needed]

Athans served in numerous committees of

Automatica
.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Michael Athans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Michael Athans
  3. ^ "Professor Emeritus Michael Athans, pioneer in control theory, dies at 83". MIT. 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  4. ^ "PORTUGUESE RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES:WHY NOT THE BEST?" (PDF). ISR. 2001-06-18. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  5. ^ "IEEE Control Systems Society's Hendrik Wade Bode Prize". Archived from the original on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  6. ^ "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
  7. ^ "Cerimónia de Atribuição do Grau de Doutor Honoris Causa". IST. 2011-05-27. Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-05-30.

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