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Petar V. Kokotovic

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Reference excerpt

Petar V. Kokotovic (Serbian: Петар В. Кокотовић / Petar V. Kokotović; born 1934) is professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control especially the backstepping stabilization method.

Biography Kokotovic was born in Belgrade in 1934. He received his B.S. (1958) and M.S. (1963) degrees from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and his Ph.D. (1965) from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Institute of Automation and Remote Control), Moscow. He came to the United States in 1965 and was professor at the University of Illinois for 25 years. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1991, where he was the founding and long-serving director of the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation. This center has become a role model of cross-disciplinary research and education. One of the center's achievements is a fully integrated cross-disciplinary graduate program for electrical and computer, mechanical and environmental, and chemical engineering fields. At UC Santa Barbara his group developed constructive nonlinear control methods and applied them, with colleagues from MIT, Caltech and United Technologies Research Center, to new jet engine designs. As a long-term industrial consultant, he has contributed to computer controls at Ford and to power system stability at General Electric. For his control systems contributions, Professor Kokotovic has been recognized with the triennial Quazza Medal from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the Control Systems Field Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the 2002 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council, with the citation "for pioneering contributions to control theory and engineering, and for inspirational leadership as mentor, advisor, and lecturer over a period spanning four decades." Kokotovic was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for the development and applications of large-scale systems analysis and adaptive control theory. He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of IEEE. His honors also include the D.C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award and two IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control outstanding paper awards. Dr. Kokotovic has co-authored numerous papers and ten books. His former students include Joe Chow, Charles Robert Hadlock, Petros A. Ioannou, Hassan Khalil, and Miroslav Krstić.

Recognitions Fellow of the IEEE, 1980 Lecturer at the French National Seminar (CNRS) on "New Tools for Control," Paris, 1982 Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1984 D.C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1987 Grainger Endowed Chair, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1990 Quazza Medal, Highest Triennial Award, International Federation of Automatic Control, 1990 IEEE Bode Prize Lecture, 1991 Foreign Expert to Evaluate French National Institute (INRIA), 1992 The 1993 IEEE Outstanding Transactions Paper Award The 1995 IEEE Control Systems Award Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1996 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, IEEE, 2001 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2002. Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011

Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Petar V. Kokotovic ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Petar V. Kokotovic

In research: Petar V. Kokotovic appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Petar V. Kokotovic in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Petar V. Kokotovic is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1936 births, 21st-century American engineers, 21st-century Serbian engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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