This is an IFAC award to an individual, or a team of individuals, who has made a significant contribution to industrial applications of control. The award is given in technical fields covered by IFAC. The selection is based on industrial achievements measured in terms of:
- Inventions in the control area
- Engineering significance of products and projects
- Industrial leadership
- Promotion of control technology in industry
- Impact of patents
- International recognition
- 2002 Barcelona Yasuo Ichii, Shoji Murayama and Takahiro Yamasaki (JP)
- 2005 Prague Serge Boverie (FR)
- 2008 Seoul not awarded
- 2011 Milan Anton van Zanten (DE)
- 2014 Cape Town Giovanni Cherubini, Jens Jelitto, Mark Lantz, and Angeliki Pantazi (CH)
- 2017 Toulouse Francesco Borrelli, David Germann, Dejan Kihas, Daniel Pachner, Jaroslav Pekar and Greg Stewart (US/CA/CZ)
- 2020 Berlin Francis J. Doyle III (US)
- 2023 Yokohama Reza Moheimani (US)
- 2026 Busan Raffaello D’Andrea (CH)
