This
book sketches the history of the Russian Academy of SciencesТ V.A. Trapeznikov
Institute of Control Sciences, one of the worldТs largest
centers in this field, which will turn 65 in June 2004.
The Institute has from its inception employed the countryТs best
researchers who remain world level leaders in
control theory. Everybody heard the names of outstanding
theoreticians such as N.N. Luzin, A.A. Andronov, M.A. Gavrilov,
A.A. Feldbaum, A.M. Lyotov, M.A. Aizerman, B.S. Sotskov,
A.Ya. Lerner, Ya.Z. Tsypkin, V.S. Pugachev and M.A. Krasnoselsky,
to name just a few. They are no longer with us but the second and third
generations of control scientists raised by them continue the research
project that they once launched. Equally famous are science organizers
such as V.S. Kulebakin, B.N. Petrov and V.A. Trapeznikov
who were also preeminent researchers.
The latter of them, Vadim Alexandrovich Trapeznikov was the InstituteТs
director for 36 years and played a key role in turning the Institute from
a small bunch of powerful theoreticians into a stronghold of science.
Under his guidance the Institute made tremendous contributions to every
field in the theory and application of control science. Vadim
Alexandrovich involved powerful theoreticians in exceedingly complicated
and vitally important applied projects such as the State Instrumentation
Systems, or GSP, Project 705 and numerous others. True, some large applied
projects, in particular in control of aerospace vehicles, started even
before his era.
Part One
of the book covers this period. The story of control theory is intertwined
with biographies of the fathers of the theory, outstanding science
organizers and brilliant teachers. These people have in common the place
where they stayed most of their lives, the Institute of Automation and
Remote Control renamed the Institute of Control Sciences in mid-1960s, as
well as the strongest if not the sole passion in their lives, control
science. These trail blazers educated and provided guidance for several
generations of their followers who made it possible for the
Institute of Control Sciences to survive and launch new research projects
even in the difficult period of global reforms in the country. The
sections Laboratories and New
Forms of Life in Part II of the book cover the period when the
Institute is led by Iveri Varlamovich Prangishvili, a member of the
Georgian Academy of Sciences who is widely known as developer of high
performance rearrangeable computer control systems. Over the last two
decades he has been promoting control theory for nuclear power stations
and control science research in laws governing nature and society.
The Institute of Control Sciences has on its payroll nearly one hundred
doctors of sciences and at least 300 researchers of the level which is
denoted in the world as Ph.D. The names of A.G. Butkovsky, A.A. Dorofeyuk,
V.F. Krotov, V.N. NovoselТtsev, P.P. Parkhomenko, B.T. Polyak,
V.Yu. Rutkov-sky or N.A. Bobylyov and Ye.S. Pyatnitsky who
died recently are as significant for professionals in control science as a
detailed description of the contribution
made by them to scientific research.
The InstituteТs viability is corroborated by the increasing presence of
young researchers on its staff over the last five years. A few years ago
Dmitry Novikov set a kind of record by becoming a doctor of sciences when
he was barely 27 years old.
The book also tells the stories of new leading researchers in control
theory such as S.V. Yemelayanov, I.V. Prangishvili, N.A. Kuznetsov, A.S.
Poznyak, S.K. Korovin and numerous others, who either are staying in the
Institute or have left it for other institutions concentrating on R&D
projects in various fields of control science.
The Institute remains a great training center. Its post graduate schools
are supplemented by a University of New Information Control Technologies.
It hosts two departments of the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute. The
Institute trains in eight different fields of control sciences seeing its
students to the stage of defending a doctoral or candidate (Ph.D) thesis.
The section New Forms outlines the latest experience in activities
recently unheard of in an academic institute in a new economic environment,
above all, research and development divisions and joint ventures.
Furthermore, the Institute is a founder or cofounder of scientific
journals, in particular Automation and Remote Control;
Control Sciences; Sensors and Systems; Industry Automation; Control
Systems and Information Technology.
Those who are interested in cooperating with the Russian Academy of
SciencesТ V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences are welcome to
contact the following institutions and/or any of the five periodicals
either hosted by the Institute or set up by it:
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65,
Profsoyuznaya St., 117997, Moscow, Russia
Telephones:334-89-10
, director
334-90-20,
scientific secretary
334-89-20,
334-89-21, office
Fax:
334-93-40,
E-mail:
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(095) 334-90-19
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117997, Moscow, Russia
tel.: 334-87-70
2.
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Profsoyuznaya St., 117997, GSP-7, Moscow, Russia
fax: 330-42- 66, tel.:
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360, Profsoyuznaya St., 117806, GSP-7, Moscow, Russia,
117806
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