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High Impact Paper Award up to 2026

6 papers awarded since 2011

This IFAC Award was introduced in 2009 and first awarded in 2011. It acknowledges the impact of a paper published in any of the official IFAC journals on the broad areas of Automatic Control theory and application. A monetary prize is presented to the recipient together with a plaque.

  • 2011 Milan 
    “Constrained Model Predictive Control: Stability and Optimality”
    David Mayne, J.B. Rawlings, C.V. Rao, P.O.M. Scokaert
    Automatica, vol. 36, pp 789-814, 2000. 
    10.1016/S0005-1098(99)00214-9
  • 2014 Cape Town 
    “Control of systems integrating logic, dynamics and constraints”
    Alberto Bemporad and Manfred Morari
    Automatica, vol. 35, pp 407-427, 1999.
    10.1016/S0005-1098(98)00178-2
  • 2017 Toulouse
    “Set Invariance in Control”
    Franco Blanchini
    Automatica, vol. 35, no. 11, 1999.
    10.1016/S0005-1098(99)00113-2
  • 2020 Berlin 
    “Research on gain scheduling”
    Wilson J. Rugh, Jeff S. Shamma
    Automatica, Vol. 36, pp. 1401-1425, 2000.
    10.1016/S0005-1098(00)00058-3
  • 2023 Yokohama 
    “Robust constrained model predictive control using linear matrix inequalities”
    M.V. Kothare, V. Balakrishnan, M. Morari
    Automatica, vol 32 (10), pp. 1361-1379, Oct 1996.
    10.1016/0005-1098(96)00063-5
  • 2026 Busan 
    “Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of port-controlled Hamiltonian systems” 
    R. Ortega, A. van der Schaft, B. Maschke and G. Escobar,
    Automatica, Vol. 38, pp. 585-596, April 2002.
    10.1016/S0005-1098(01)00278-3

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