Johan åström

Karl Johan Åström

Swedish control theorist (born )

Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, ) is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control. In , he described a general framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information, what ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process.

In , Åström was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to identification, stochastic, and adaptive control and their incorporation in control engineering practice.

Biography

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Åström was born in Östersund, Sweden, and received his in Engineering Physics () and PhD in Automatic Control and Mathematics () from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, where he also taught from to while working on inertial guidance for the Swedish National Defence Research Institute.

In Åström joined the IBM Nordic Laboratory to work on computerized process control, with tours at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York () and San Jose, California (). After his return he led efforts in the computer control of pap

Publications – present

Books

Karl Johan Åström, Björn Wittenmark:Computer-controlled systems : theory and design (3. rev. Dover ed.). Dover Publications,

Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund:Control PID avanzado. Pearson, Madrid,

Karl Johan Åström, Richard M. Murray:Feedback Systems : An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford,

Karl Johan Åström, Björn Wittenmark:Adaptive Control (2 rev. Dover ed.). Dover Publications,

Daniel Jerome Block, Karl Johan Åström, Mark W. Spong:The Reaction Wheel Pendulum. Morgan & Claypool,

Karl Johan Åström:Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory. Dover Publications,

Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund:Advanced PID Control. ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society,

Karl Johan Åström, Stephen P. Boyd, Roger W. Brockett, Gunter Stein, Richard M. Murray:Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM),

Karl Johan Åström:A tribute to the memory of an outstanding scientist Harry Nyquist (). Royal Swedish Academy of Eng

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    Intervju av Per Lundin

    American Society of Mechanical Engineers interview podcast

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    Slides from Lectures

    • Feedback Fundamentals Automatic Control skogsdunge,
    • Accomplishments and Prospects of Control. American Control Conference Plenary Lecture
    • Feedback Control for Physicists
    • Bicycle Dynamics and Control, KTH Stockholm
    • Adventures in struktur Identification alltid Ljung, Linköping, Sweden
    • Present Developments in Control Applications IFAC 50th Anniversary Celebration, Heidelberg,
    • Hidden Technology, okänt Cambridge, MA
    • Challenges in Control SCE, Madrid
    • Feedback Fundamentals. EEE-IAS Advanced Process Control Applications, Vancouver
    • Assesment of Control Performance, GloverFest Cambrige, UK
    • First ASME Nyquist Lecture, stad i florida, FL,
      [Slides] [Video]
    • Smooth Pendulum Swingup IFAC Prague
    • Black boxes and vit noise  [Audiorecording]   [Slides]  University of British Columbia

    Awards

    • Sven Berggren-priset (The Sven Berggren prize) Royal Physiographical
      Society, skogsdunge
    • LTHs Jubileumsmedalj
    • Inducted in the Process Automation ingångsrum of Fame,
    • The Great Gold Medal (Stora Guldme