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 Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

, named after the applied mathematician

Richard E. Bellman Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics. He founde ...

. 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 A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home heating controller using a thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large industrial c ...

s engineers and scientists". The original name was Control Heritage Award, and it was initially only given for the engineering side of control.

Recipients

The following individuals have received the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award: * 1979: Hendrik Wade Bode * 1980:

Nathaniel B. Nichols Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory. He is well known for his book ''Theory of Servomechanisms'', one of the most widely read books in control engine ...

* 1981: Charles Stark Draper * 1982: Irving Lefkowitz * 1983: John V. Breakwell * 1984:

* 1985:

Harold Chestnut Harold (Hall) Chestnut (November 25, 1917 – August 29, 2001) was an American electrical engineer, control engineer and manager at General Electric and author, who helped establish the fields of control theory and systems engineering. Biography ...

* 1986: John Zaborszky * 1987:

John C. Lozier John 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. This equipment, involving real-time computer contro ...

* 1988: Walter R. Evans * 1989:

Roger W. Brockett Roger Ware Brockett (born October 22, 1938 in Seville, Ohio) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded thHarvard Robotics Laboratoryin 1983. Brocket ...

* 1990:

Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. Arthur Earl Bryson Jr. (born October 7, 1925) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory". With Henry J. Kelley, he also pioneered an early version of the backpr ...

* 1991: John G. Truxal * 1992:

Rutherford Aris Rutherford "Gus" Aris (September 15, 1929 – November 2, 2005) was a chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005). Early ...

* 1993:

Eliahu I. Jury Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science degree from Columbia University of New York City in 1953. He was professor of electrical engineering at ...

* 1994:

Jose B. Cruz, Jr. Jose Bejar Cruz Jr. (born September 17, 1932) is a noted control theorist and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University. Cruz was elected a member of the National Aca ...

* 1995:

Michael Athans Michael Athans (born Michael Athanassiades in Drama, Greece, May 3, 1937 - May 26, 2020) was a Greek-American control theorist and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institu ...

* 1996:

Elmer G. Gilbert Elmer Grant Gilbert (March 29, 1930 – June 16, 2019) was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957. ...

* 1997:

Rudolf E. Kálmán Rudolf Emil Kálmán (May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian Americans, Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algo ...

* 1998: Lotfi Asker Zadeh * 1999:

Yu-Chi Ho Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho (; born March 1, 1934) is a 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 i ...

* 2000:

W. Harmon Ray Willis Harmon Ray (born April 4, 1940) is an American chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Vilas Research emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison notable for being the 2000 winner of the prestigio ...

* 2001:

A.V. Balakrishnan Alampallam Venkatachalaiyer Balakrishnan (1922-2015) was an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Education and career Balakrishnan grew up in Chennai, India, and entered the University of Ma ...

* 2002:

Petar V. Kokotovic Petar V. Kokotovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар В. Кокотовић) is professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular ...

* 2003:

Kumpati S. Narendra Kumpati 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 pioneeri ...

* 2004:

Harold J. Kushner Harold Joseph 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 (based on the concept of supermartingales as Lyapunov f ...

* 2005: Gene F. Franklin * 2006: Tamer Başar * 2007: Sanjoy K. Mitter * 2008:

Pravin Varaiya Pravin Pratap Varaiya (29 October 1940 – 10 June 2022) was Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Varaiya received his B.Sc. from University of Bombay and ...

* 2009: George Leitmann * 2010:

Dragoslav D. Šiljak Dragoslav D. Šiljak is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, where he held the title of Benjamin and Mae Swig University Professor. He is best known for developing the mathematical theory and methods for control ...

* 2011:

Manfred Morari Manfred Morari (born 1951) is a world-leading control theorist who has made pioneering contributions to the theory and applications of Model Predictive Control, Internal Model Control (IMC) and Hybrid Systems. His book on Robust Process Control ...

* 2012: Arthur J. Krener * 2013: A. Stephen MorseA. Stephen Morse

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Thomas F. Edgar Thomas Flynn Edgar (born April 17, 1945) is an American chemical engineer. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for contributions to mathematical modeling, optimization, and automatic control of chemical an ...

* 2016: Jason L. Speyer * 2017: John Baras * 2018: Masayoshi Tomizuka * 2019: Irena Lasiecka * 2020: Galip Ulsoy * 2021:

Miroslav Krstić Miroslav Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Мирослав Крстић'') is an American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Krstić is also the dir ...

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