Karl Johan Åström

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Karl Johan Åström Professor Emeritus of Automatic Control Department of Automatic Control LTH

Short CV

A Video Clip

Swinging up an inverted double pendulum

Recent Publications

Slides from lectures

Bicycle Dynamics and Control, KTH Stockholm 2006
Adventures in System Identification Forever Ljung, Linköping, Sweden 2006
Present Developments in Control Applications IFAC 50th Anniversary Celebration, Heidelberg, 2006
Hidden Technology, MIT Cambridge, MA 2006
Challenges in Control SCE2006, Madrid
Feedback Fundamentals. EEE-IAS Advanced Process Control Applications, Vancouver 2006.
Assesment of Control Performance, GloverFest Cambrige, UK 2006
First ASME Nyquist Lecture, Orlando, FL, 2005
Smooth Pendulum Swingup IFAC Prague 2005

Books

Title	Authors	Year	Type
Control PID avanzado	Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2009	Book
The Reaction Wheel Pendulum	Daniel J. Block, Karl Johan Åström, Mark W. Spong	2007	Book
Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory	Karl Johan Åström	2006	Book
Advanced PID Control	Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2005	Book
Harry Nyquist (1889–1976): A Tribute to the Memory of an Outstanding Scientist	Karl Johan Åström	2003	Book
Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems	Karl Johan Åström, Stephen P. Boyd, R. W. Brockett, G. Stein	2003	Book
Control of Complex Systems	Karl Johan Åström, Pedro Albertos, Mogens Blanke, Alberto Isidori, Walter Schaufelberger	2001	Book

Articles

Title	Authors	Year	Type
Emergence and Development of the Field of Control	Karl Johan Åström	2009	In book
Interactive Learning Modules for PID Control	José Luis Guzmán, Karl Johan Åström, Sebastián Dormido, Tore Hägglund, Manuel Berenguel, Yves Piguet	2008	Art
Estimation and Optimal Configurations for Localization Using Cooperative UAVs	Keith B. Purvis, Karl Johan Åström, Mustafa Khammash	2008	Art
Early Control Development in Sweden	Karl Johan Åström	2007	Art
Event Based Control	Karl Johan Åström	2007	In book
Bicycle Dynamics and Control	Karl Johan Åström, Richard E. Klein, Anders Lennartsson	2005	Art
Revisiting the Ziegler-Nichols step response method for PID control	Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström	2004	Art
Revisiting the Ziegler-Nichols tuning rules for PI control–Part II, The frequency response method	Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström	2004	Art
Future Directions in Control in an Information-rich World	Richard Murray, Karl Johan Åström, Stephen P. Boyd, R. W. Brockett, G. Stein	2003	Art
Revisiting the Ziegler-Nichols tuning rules for PI control	Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström	2002	Art
Limit cycles with chattering in relay feedback systems	Karl Henrik Johansson, A. E. Barabanov, Karl Johan Åström	2002	Art
Relay Feedback Auto-tuning of Process Controllers – A Tutorial Review	C.C. Hang, Karl Johan Åström	2002	Art
Design of decoupled PI controller for two-by-two systems	Karl Johan Åström, Karl Henrik Johansson, Q.G. Wang	2002	Art
Dominant pole placement for multi-loop control systems	Zhang Yuzhu, Q. -G Wang, Karl Johan Åström	2002	Art
Model Uncertainty and Feedback	Karl Johan Åström	2002	In book
Modeling of Complex Systems	Karl Johan Åström	2002	In book
Loop-shaping design of PID controllers with constant Ti/Td ratio	Anders Wallén, Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2002	Art
Design of PID controllers based on constrained optimisation	Hélène Panagopoulos, Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2002	Art
Friction Generated Limit Cycles	Henrik Olsson, Karl Johan Åström	2001	Art
Warum können wir Fahrrad fahren	Karl Johan Åström, J. Lunze	2001	Art
Control Problems in Paper Making: Revisited	Karl Johan Åström	2001	Art
On Self-Tuning Regulators	Karl Johan Åström, Björn Wittenmark	2001	In book
The future of PID control	Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2001	Art
Supervision of adaptive control algorithms	Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström	2000	Art
Drum Boiler Dynamics	Karl Johan Åström, Rodney D. Bell	2000	Art
Swinging up a Pendulum by Energy Control	Karl Johan Åström, Katsuhisa Furuta	2000	Art
Limitations on Control System Performance	Karl Johan Åström	2000	Art
PID control design and $H_infty$ loop shaping	Hélène Panagopoulos, Karl Johan Åström	2000	Art

Conference Contributions

Title	Authors	Year	Type
Interactive Learning Module for Control Interaction Understanding	José Luis Guzmán, Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund, Sebastián Dormido, Manuel Berenguel, Yves Piguet	2009	Conf
Interactive Learning Module: Basic Modelling and Identification Concepts	José Luis Guzmán, Karl Johan Åström, Sebastián Dormido, Tore Hägglund, Yves Piguet, Manuel Berenguel	2008	Conf
On Limit Cycles in Event-Based Control Systems	Anton Cervin, Karl Johan Åström	2007	Conf
Log-concave Observers	Toivo Henningsson, Karl Johan Åström	2006	Conf
Interactive Learning Modules for PID Control	José Luis Guzmán, Karl Johan Åström, Sebastián Dormido, Tore Hägglund, Yves Piguet	2006	Conf
Challenges in Control Education	Karl Johan Åström	2006	Conf
Manual Control and Stabilization of an Inverted Pendulum	Johan Åkesson, Karl Johan Åström	2005	Conf
Modeling of a Steam Heated Rotating Cylinder—A Grey-Box Approach	Ola Slätteke, Karl Johan Åström	2005	Conf
A New Family of Smooth Strategies for Swinging up a Pendulum	Karl Johan Åström, Javier Aracil, Francisco Gordillo	2005	Conf
Estimating Radar Positions Using Unmanned Air Vehicle Teams Engaged in Cooperative Deception	K.B. Purvis, Karl Johan Åström, M. H. Khammash	2005	Conf
Lateral Mean Exit Time of a Spherical Particle Trapped in an Optical Tweezer	Aruna Ranaweera, Karl Johan Åström, Bassam Bamieh	2004	Conf
A grey-box model for steam pressure dynamics in the drying section of a paper machine	Ola Slätteke, Karl Johan Åström	2004	Conf
Criteria for Design of PID Controllers	Ari Ingimundarson, Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström	2003	Conf
Global Stabilization of the Inverted Pendulum Using Model Predictive Control	L. Magni, R. Scattolini, Karl Johan Åström	2002	Conf
Pulse-step Control	Anders Wallén, Karl Johan Åström	2002	Conf
Comparison of Riemann and Lebesque sampling for first order stochastic systems	Karl Johan Åström, Bo Bernhardsson	2002	Conf
Safe Manual Control of the Furuta Pendulum	Johan Åkesson, Karl Johan Åström	2001	Conf
The Mechatronics Control Kit for Education and Research	Mark W. Spong, Dan Block, Karl Johan Åström	2001	Conf
Modeling of a Boiler Pipe with Two-Phase Flow Instabilities	Jonas Eborn, Karl Johan Åström	2000	Conf
Control Problems in Paper Making - Revisited	Karl Johan Åström	2000	Conf
Model Uncertainty and Robust Control	Karl Johan Åström	2000	Conf
Benchmark systems for PID control	Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2000	Conf
The future of PID control	Karl Johan Åström, Tore Hägglund	2000	Conf

Education

The following are slides for an attempt to make a New Introductory Course on Control:
Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6
Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 9 Lecture 10 Lecture 11 Lecture 12
Lecture 13 Lecture 13 Lecture 15 Lecture 16 Lecture 17 Lecture 18

Last modified: 2007-11-28

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