Rudolf E. Kálmán
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Rudolf Emil Kálmán
Life and career
Rudolf Kálmán was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930 to Otto and Ursula Kálmán (née Grundmann). After emigrating to the United States in 1943, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1953 and his master's degree in 1954, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in electrical engineering. Kálmán completed his doctorate in 1957 at Columbia University in New York City.[5]
Kálmán worked as a Research Mathematician at the
Kálmán died on the morning of July 2, 2016, at his home in Gainesville, Florida.[6]
Work
Kálmán was an
Kálmán's ideas on filtering were initially met with vast skepticism, so much so that he was forced to do the first publication of his results in
Kálmán published several seminal papers during the sixties, which rigorously established what is now known as the state-space representation of dynamical systems. He introduced the formal definition of a system, the notions of controllability and observability, eventually leading to the Kalman decomposition. Kálmán also gave groundbreaking contributions to the theory of optimal control and provided, in his joint work with J. E. Bertram, a comprehensive and insightful exposure of stability theory for dynamical systems. He also worked with B. L. Ho on the minimal realization problem, providing the well known Ho-Kalman algorithm.
Awards and honors
Kálmán was a foreign member of the French, Hungarian and Russian Academies of Sciences,[8] as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering,[1] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9] He has been awarded many honorary doctorates from other universities. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]
Kálmán received the
Kálmán also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1990.[12] and an Honorary doctorate from the Politecnico di Milano in 2012. Kalman died a few weeks before the conferment of the latter doctorate, so that his wife Dina attended the ceremony on his behalf, held in the Conference room of the Departement of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano on 12 September 2016.
See also
Selected publications
- Kalman, R.E. (1960). "A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems". Journal of Basic Engineering. 82 (1): 35–45. S2CID 1242324.
- Kalman, R.E.; Bucy, R.S. (1961). "New Results in Linear Filtering and Prediction Theory" (PDF). Journal of Basic Engineering. 83: 95–108. S2CID 8141345.
- Kalman, R. E. (1960). "Contributions to the theory of optimal control". Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana.
- Kalman, R. E. (1963). "Mathematical description of linear dynamical systems". Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 1 (2): 152–192. doi:10.1137/0301010.
- Kalman, R. E.; Bertram, J. E. (1960). "Control system analysis and design Via the "second method" of Lyapunov: I — Continuous-time systems". Journal of Basic Engineering.
- Kalman, R. E.; Bertram, J. E. (1960). "Control system analysis and design Via the "second method" of Lyapunov: II — Discrete-time systems". Journal of Basic Engineering.
- Kalman, R. E.; Ho, B. L. (1966). "Editorial: Effective construction of linear state-variable models from input/output functions". Regelungstechnik.
See also
References
- ^ a b Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kalman was elected in 1991 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering.
- ^ "Remembering Rudolf E. Kalman (1930 – 2016)". July 7, 2016.
- ^ The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details: Rudolf E. Kálmán National Science Foundation.
- ^ "The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details | Rudolf E. Kálmán". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
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- ^ In Loving Memory of Professor Rudolf Emil Kalman Obituary. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
- ^ Mcgee, Leonard A.; Schmidt, Stanley F. (1985). Discovery of the Kalman filter as a practical tool for aerospace and industry.
- ^ Tamás Székely (July 6, 2016). "Renowned Hungarian Scientist, Inventor Of The "Kálmán filter" Rudolf Kálmán Dies Aged 86". Hungary Today. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
- ^ "Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Retrieved December 26, 2019.
- ^ "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
- ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
External links
- The Kalman Filter website
- Kyoto Prize
- For Kálmán's PhD students see Rudolf Emil Kálmán on the Mathematics Genealogy Project page.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Rudolf E. Kálmán", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- A biography by Kalman's Ph.D. advisor, J R Ragazzini is given in "Dynamical Systems, Measurement, and Control", June 1977 pp. 73–75. This also has a list of Kalman's major publications.
- Biography of Kalman from the IEEE