Control engineering
Engineering discipline that deals with control systems
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March 17 2025 |
Branislava Peruničić
Passed away at the age of 88.
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March 17 2025 |
Branislava Peruničić
Passed away on this date, leaving behind a legacy as an Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Sarajevo.
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2025 |
Flow control
Planned rollout of the 7,000-pound X-65 aircraft in early 2025, with the first flight anticipated in the summer of 2025.
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2024 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
John D. Hedengren receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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January 2024 |
Flow control
DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences initiated CRANE Phase 3, focusing on building the first full-scale X-65 aircraft that uses active flow control actuators for primary flight control.
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2023 |
Flow control
The experimental aircraft prototype received its official designation as X-65, developed by Aurora Flight Sciences as part of the DARPA CRANE program investigating active flow control technology.
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2023 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Richard D. Braatz receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2022 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Bonnie Ferri receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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January 2022 |
Fault tolerance
The JSTAR computer (JPL Self-Testing-And-Repairing computer) developed by NASA for the Voyager mission was still operational.
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2021 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Graham Goodwin receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2020 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Naomi Leonard receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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December 2020 |
Fault tolerance
Twitter discontinued its lightweight front-end version that did not rely on JavaScript, which had previously been used to ensure wide accessibility across different platforms.
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2019 | A survey of control engineers was conducted, revealing the diverse career paths within the field, including system/product designers, control/instrument engineers, and process/production/maintenance roles. |
2019 |
Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray received the John R. Ragazzini Award, recognizing his significant contributions to control systems and engineering.
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2019 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Richard M. Murray receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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March 2019 |
Flight envelope protection
A second Boeing 737 MAX airliner experienced MCAS flight protection system failure, again causing an unrecoverable dive and contributing to the total loss of 346 lives worldwide.
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2018 |
MIMO
Emil Björnson, Jakob Hoydis, and Luca Sanguinetti published research demonstrating that pilot contamination in massive MIMO can be solved, showing capacity can be increased by adding more antennas.
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2018 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Frank L. Lewis receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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October 2018 |
Flight envelope protection
MCAS flight protection system's erroneous activation caused a Boeing 737 MAX airliner to enter an unrecoverable dive, resulting in fatal crashes and loss of 346 lives.
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2017 |
Richard M. Murray
Murray was honored with the IEEE Control Systems Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, highlighting his expertise in control theory.
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2017 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Miroslav Krstić receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2016 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Brian D. O. Anderson receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2015 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Magnus Egerstedt receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2014 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Roger W. Brockett receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2013 |
Richard M. Murray
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his groundbreaking contributions in control theory, networked control systems, and their applications in aerospace engineering, robotics, and autonomy.
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2013 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2011 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
James B. Rawlings receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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2010 |
John R. Ragazzini Award
Tzyh Jong Tarn receives the John R. Ragazzini Award.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Proportional control, Flow control (fluid), John R. Ragazzini Award, Richard M. Murray, Flight envelope protection, ANSI/ISA-95, IEC 62264, Control engineering, Fault tolerance, Branislava Peruničić & MIMO, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.