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 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 systems engineers and scientists".^[1]

The original name was Control Heritage Award, and it was initially only given for the engineering side of control.^[2][3]

Recipients

The following individuals have received the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award:^[4]

• 1979: Hendrik Wade Bode
• 1980: Nathaniel B. Nichols
• 1981: Charles Stark Draper
• 1982: Irving Lefkowitz
• 1983: John V. Breakwell
• 1984: Richard E. Bellman
• 1985: Harold Chestnut
• 1986: John Zaborszky
• 1987: John C. Lozier
• 1988: Walter R. Evans
• 1989: Roger W. Brockett
• 1990: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr.
• 1991: John G. Truxal
• 1992: Rutherford Aris
• 1993: Eliahu I. Jury
• 1994: Jose B. Cruz, Jr.
• 1995: Michael Athans
• 1996: Elmer G. Gilbert
• 1997: Rudolf E. Kálmán
• 1998: Lotfi Asker Zadeh
• 1999: Yu-Chi Ho
• 2000: W. Harmon Ray
• 2001: A.V. Balakrishnan
• 2002: Petar V. Kokotovic
• 2003: Kumpati S. Narendra
• 2004: Harold J. Kushner
• 2005: Gene F. Franklin
• 2006: Tamer Başar
• 2007: Sanjoy K. Mitter
• 2008: Pravin Varaiya
• 2009: George Leitmann
• 2010: Dragoslav D. Šiljak
• 2011: Manfred Morari
• 2012: Arthur J. Krener
• 2013: A. Stephen Morse^[5][6]
• 2014: Dimitri Bertsekas
• 2015: Thomas F. Edgar
• 2016: Jason L. Speyer
• 2017: John Baras
• 2018: Masayoshi Tomizuka
• 2019: Irena Lasiecka
• 2020: Galip Ulsoy
• 2021: Miroslav Krstić
• 2022: Eduardo Sontag
• 2023: Stephen P. Boyd
• 2024: Naomi Leonard

See also

• List of people in systems and control
• List of engineering awards

References

1. "AACC Awards". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
2. Brooks, Harvey (1989). "Hendrik Wade Bode". Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering. 3. National Academies Press: 53. ISBN 0309039398. ISSN 1075-8844. Retrieved February 11, 2013. In addition, in 1979 he was the first recipient of the Control Heritage Award of the American Automatic Control Council.
3. "AACC Awards Nominations" (PDF). IEEE Control Systems Magazine. 1 (1). IEEE Control Systems Society: 30. 1981. ISSN 0272-1708. Retrieved February 11, 2013. ... contributions to the technology or application of control, or both.
4. "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award: Recipients". American Automatic Control Council. American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
5. Dudley Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University
6. A. Stephen Morse Archived 2015-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, Electrical Engineering-Systems