Roger Ware Brockett (born October 22, 1938 in

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) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at

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, who founded th
Harvard Robotics Laboratory
in 1983. Brockett became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 for outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of linear and nonlinear control systems.

Biography

Brockett was born on October 22, 1938 in Seville, Ohio to Roger Lawrence and Grace Ester (Patch) Brockett. Brockett received his

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from

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in 1960, and continued on to receive his

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in 1962 and his

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in 1964 from

as well. His Ph.D. dissertation was ''The Invertibility of Dynamic Systems with Application to Control'' under the supervision of

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. After teaching at the

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from 1963 to 1969, he joined the faculty at

. At Harvard, Brockett became the Gordon McKay Professor of

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and in 1989 the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Brockett is known for his work on

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and linear differential systems; in 1970 he published the textbook ''Finite Dimensional Linear Systems.'' Brockett has advised over 50 students, including Daniel Liberzon, Jan Willems, David Dobkin, John Baras, P. S. Krishnaprasad, and John Baillieul.

Awards and honors

Brockett received several awards and honors, including: *

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of the

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(IEEE) since 1974 * Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 * In 1989 the

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award 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, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given fo ...

from the American Automatic Control Council * In 1991 the

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* In 1996 the "W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics" from the

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* In 2005 the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the

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* In 2009 the

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* In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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Trivia

* Roger Brockett and Donald Knuth were classmates at Case Western

References

External links

Brockett's web page
at Harvard

at the

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