EECS Professor Claire Tomlin has received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Presented annually by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the award is the highest professional recognition for US control systems engineers and scientists. Established in 1979 and named after applied mathematician Richard Bellman, the award honors individuals for distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control.
Recipients join a distinguished group of researchers whose work has shaped the foundations of modern control systems, a field with applications spanning robotics, aerospace, autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems.
Tomlin is recognized “for foundational work in the design of safe control systems, with application to collision avoidance systems in aircraft, embedded autopilot design, and autonomous vehicle control.”
