Petar V. Kokotovic

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Petar V. Kokotovic (born 1936) is a Serbian scientist, who is professor in the Department 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 .

Biography

He was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1936. He received B.S. (1958) and M.S. (1963) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, 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, was a professor at the University of Illinois for 25 years and joined the University of California 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." [I.E.E.E. Bio page about Professor Petar Kokotovic [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2002education.html] ]

Work

Kokotovic has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques and nonlinear control, especially the back-stepping 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. [From the I.E.E.E.]

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, 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:
* 1995, "Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design",with M. Krstic and I. Kanellakopoulos. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

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