Citizenship Serbian, American Fields Control theory | Role Engineer Name Petar Kokotovic | |
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Known for Development and applications of large-scale systems analysis and adaptive control theory. Education Great School, University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering Notable awards Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, IEEE Control Systems Award Books Singular perturbation methods i, Constructive Nonlinear Control, Robust Nonlinear Control D, Adaptive Control of Systems | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
Petar V. Kokotovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар В. Кокотовић) is a professor in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control.
Contents
- Biography
- Work
- Center for Control Dynamical systems and Computation
- Constructive nonlinear control
- Works
- Awards
- References
Biography
He was born in Belgrade in 1934. He received B.S. (1958) and M.S. (1963) from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. (1965) from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Institute of Automation and Remote Control), Moscow.
He came to the U.S. in 1965 and was a professor at the University of Illinois for 25 years. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991.
In 2002, he received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council. The citation reads, "For pioneering contributions to control theory and engineering, and for inspirational leadership as mentor, advisor, and lecturer over a period spanning four decades."
He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. His honors include the IEEE Control Systems Field Award, the IF AC Quazza Medal, the D.C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award and two Outstanding IEEE Transactions paper awards."
Work
Kokotovic has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control, especially the backstepping stabilization method. Kokotovic’s impact as an educator is evident in the success of his students. The list of those he has mentored, many of whom are IEEE Fellows, reads like a worldwide “Who’s Who” of control engineers. His lively and dynamic style inspires innovation while instilling the value of using engineering to solve real problems.
Center for Control, Dynamical-systems and Computation
Kokotovic is the founder and director of the University of California-Santa Barbara’s Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation. This center has become a role model of cross disciplinary research and education. One of the Center’s achievements is a fully integrated cross-disciplinary graduate program for electrical and computer, mechanical and environmental, and chemical engineering fields. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana, he pioneered singular perturbation techniques, used today in power systems and adaptive controllers.
Constructive nonlinear control
At the University of California his group developed constructive nonlinear control methods and applied them, with colleagues from MIT, Caltech and United Technologies Research Center, to new jet engine designs. As a long-term industrial consultant, he has contributed to computer controls at Ford and to power system stability at General Electric.
Works
With his 30 Ph.D. students and 20 postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Kokotovic has co-authored numerous papers and 10 books. Books: