Karl Johan Åström

Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, 1934) is a Swedish control theorist, who
Karl Johan Åström
has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering,
computer control and adaptive control. In 1965, he described a general Born August 5, 1934
framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information, what Nationality Swedish
ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process. Alma mater Royal Institute of
Technology
Awards Rufus Oldenburger
Contents Medal (1985)
IEEE Medal of Honor
Biography
(1993)
Publications
See also
Scientific career

References Fields Electrical engineering

External links

Biography
Åström was born in Östersund, Sweden, and received his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics (1957) and PhD in Automatic Control
and Mathematics (1960) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, where he also taught from 1955 to 1960
while working on inertial guidance for the Swedish National Defence Research Institute.

In 1961 Åström joined the IBM Nordic Laboratory to work on computerized process control, with tours at IBM Research in
Yorktown Heights, New York (1962) and San Jose, California (1963). After his return he led efforts in the computer control of
paper manufacturing machinery. In 1965, Åström was named Chair of the newly founded Department of Automatic Control at
Lund University, Sweden.

From 1965 to 2002 he was chair of the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University, where he is now Professor
Emeritus. Since 2002 he has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Åström is a Fellow of the IEEE, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded
the ASME Rufus Oldenburger medal (1985) and the International Federation of Automatic Control Quazza Medal (1987). In
1987 he was also awarded the degree Docteur Honoris Causa from l'Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. He received in
1989 the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award,[1] in 1990 the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award,[2][3]
and in 1993 the IEEE Medal of Honor for his "fundamental contributions to theory and applications of adaptive control
technology".[4]

Publications
Books

1970. Introduction to Stochastic Control. Academic Press, 1970; Dover, 2006.

1989. Adaptive Control. With B Wittenmark. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
 1996. Computer-controlled Systems, Theory and Design. With B Wittenmark. Prentice Hall, 1996.
2005. Advanced PID Control. With T Hägglund. ISA, 2005.
2008. Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers. With R. Murray. Princeton University
Press, 2008.

Papers

KJ Åström, B Wittenmark. "On self-tuning regulators," Automatica, vol. 9, pp. 185–199, 1973.

See also
Partially observable Markov decision process

References
1. "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients" (http://www.ieee.org/documents/fink_rl.pdf) (PDF). IEEE.
Retrieved January 2, 2011.
2. "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (http://www.ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf) (PDF). IEEE.
Retrieved January 15, 2011.
3. "IEEE Control Systems Award" (https://web.archive.org/web/20101229173014/http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awar
ds/control-systems-field-award). IEEE Control Systems Society. Archived from the original (http://www.ieeecss.or
g/main/awards/control-systems-field-award) on December 29, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
4. "IEEE Medal of Honor Recipients" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150422004457/http://www.ieee.org/document
s/moh_rl.pdf) (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (http://www.ieee.org/documents/moh_rl.pdf) (PDF) on April
22, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2011.

External links
Karl Johan Åström faculty page (http://www3.control.lth.se/user/karl_johan.astrom/)
IEEE History Center biography (http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Karl_J._Astrom)
Åström and Murray: Feedback Systems (2008) [textbook] (http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/amwiki)

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Johan_Åström&oldid=917551704"

This page was last edited on 24 September 2019, at 10:21 (UTC).

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using
this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.