Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize
This award is presented at each Triennial Congress for the best Control Engineering textbook for which the first edition(s) occurred not later than the Congress just prior to the one at which the award is presented. It recognizes the author(s) of the textbook(s) judged to have most contributed to the education of control engineers. The candidates for the prize are nominated by a selection committee, while the books under consideration come before the committee through recommendation of the control engineering community. The prize consists of a monetary prize and a certificate. This prize was created in 1986 and renamed in 2002. The prize is named after Harold Chestnut, IFAC’s first president.
Winners
| Year | Congress site | Winner | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Munich | G. Goodwin, K.H. Sin: Adaptive Filtering, Prediction and Control, Prentice Hall, 1984 | AU |
| 1990 | Tallinn | G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell, E. Emami-Naeini: Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Addison Wesley, 1986 | US |
| 1993 | Sydney | K.J. Åström, B. Wittenmark: Computer Controlled Systems, Theory and Design, Prentice Hall, 1984 | SE |
| 1996 | San Francisco | J.M. Maciejowski: Multivariable Feedback Design, Addison-Wesley, 1989 | UK |
| 1999 | Beijing | C.G. CASSANDRAS: Discrete event systems: modeling and performance analysis, R.D. Irwin, Inc. And Aksen Associates, Inc., Boston, MA, 1993 | US |
| 2002 | Barcelona | HASSAN K. KHALIL: Nonlinear Systems (Prentice Hall, 1996 and 2002) | US |
| 2005 | Prague | G. GOODWIN, S. GRAEBE, M. SALGADO: Control Systems Design (Prentice Hall, 2001) | AU/AT/CL |
| 2008 | Seoul | not awarded | |
| 2011 | Milan | K.J. Astrom, R. Murray: Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (Princeton University Press) | SE, UK |
| 2014 | Cape Town | M. Krstic and A. Smyshlyaev: Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs (SIAM, 2008) |
US |
| 2017 | Toulouse | P. Albertos and I. Mareels: Feedback and Control for Everyone (Springer, 2010) |
ES, AU |
| 2020 | Berlin | Y. Shtessel, C. Edwards, L. Fridman, A. Levant: Sliding Mode Control and Observation (Birkhäuser, 2013) |
US, UK, MX, IL |