Rolf Isermann

Professor at the Institute of Automatic Control, Darmstadt University of Technology,

Landgraf-Georg-Str. 4, Germany

e-mail: RIsermann@iat.tu-darmstadt.de

Rolf Isermann is Professor at the Darmstadt University of Technology and head of the Laboratory of Control Engineering and Process Automation at the Institute of Automatic Control. 1989 R. Isermann received the Dr. h.c. (honoris causa) from L'Université Libre de Bruxelles and 1996 from the Polytechnic University in Bucharest. In 1996 he was awarded by the VDE-Ehrenring, the highest scientific award from Verband der Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik. In September 1998 he was invited as Russell Severance Springer Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. MIT Technology Review Magazine awarded him to the Top Ten of emerging Technologies. R. Isermann has published books on Modeling of Industrial Processes (1971), Process Identification (1971, 1974, 1988), Digital Control Systems (1977, 1981, 1987) in different languages, Adaptive Control Systems (1992) together with K.-H. Lachmann and D. Matko, Supervision and Fault Diagnosis (1994) and Mechatronic Systems (1999). Current research concentrates on the fields of identification with neural networks, nonlinear digital control, intelligent control and model-based methods of process fault diagnosis with applications for hydraulic and pneumatic servo systems, combustion engines, automobiles and mechatronic systems. In 1979 he organized the 5th IFAC-Symposium on Identification and System Parameter Estimation in Darmstadt. For the 6th IFAC/IFIP-Conference on Digital Computer Applications to Process Control 1980 in Düsseldorf, he chaired the International Program Committee. He acted as Chairman of the International Program Committee for the 10th IFAC-World-Congress in Munich 1987. Furtheron he was Chairman for the 1st IFAC-Symposium SAFEPROCESS, Baden-Baden, 1991 and the 1st IFAC-Conference on Mechatronic Systems, Darmstadt held in 2000.

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