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.
- 1987 Munich
“Adaptive Filtering, Prediction and Control”
G. Goodwin, K.H. Sin (AU)
Prentice Hall, 1984 - 1990 Tallinn
“Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems”
G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell, E. Emami-Naeini (US)
Addison Wesley, 1986 - 1993 Sydney
Computer Controlled Systems, Theory and Design
K.J. Åström, B. Wittenmark (SE)
Prentice Hall, 1984 - 1996 San Francisco
Multivariable Feedback Design
J.M. Maciejowski (UK)
Addison-Wesley, 1989 - 1999 Beijing
“Discrete event systems: modeling and performance analysis”
C.G. Cassandras (US)
R.D. Irwin, Inc. and Aksen Associates, Inc., Boston, MA, 1993 - 2002 Barcelona
Nonlinear Systems
H.K. Khalil (US)
Prentice Hall, 1996 and 2002 - 2005 Prague
Control Systems Design
G. Goodwin, S. Graebe, M. Salgado (AU/AT/CL)
Prentice Hall, 2001 - 2008 Seoul not awarded
- 2011 Milan
Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
K.J. Astrom, R. Murray (SE/UK)
Princeton University Press) - 2014 Cape Town
Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs
M. Krstic, A. Smyshlyaev (US)
SIAM, 2008 - 2017 Toulouse
Feedback and Control for Everyone
P. Albertos, I. Mareels (ES/AU)
Springer, 2010 - 2020 Berlin
“Sliding Mode Control and Observation”
Y. Shtessel, C. Edwards, L. Fridman, A. Levant (US/UK/MX/IL)
Birkhäuser, 2013 - 2023 Yokohama
Introduction of Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Control
Emilia Fridman (IL)
Birkhäuser, 2014
