The Automatica Editorial Board awards prizes for the best papers published in Automatica. At IFAC World Congresses three monetary prizes each are presented to the authors of three papers selected by an Automatica Prize Awards Committee.

The prizes are given for outstanding contributions to the theory and/or practice of control engineering or control science, documented in a paper published in the IFAC Journal Automatica. The prize funds are provided by the publisher of Automatica, Elsevier Ltd.