Ioan Doré Landau (born July 1, 1938 in Bucharest) is a French scientist specializing in automatic control.
He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS, has published many groundbreaking papers and articles on the theory and applications of system identification, adaptive control, robust digital control, nonlinear systems, and is internationally recognized in these fields.
He is notably the author of numerous algorithms known as "Model Reference Approach" for adaptive control and identification of systems.The publications of Ioan Doré Landau (author or co-author) are frequently being cited in various scientific texts as shown at , most notably more than 3000 times for the book Adaptive Control: the Model Reference Approach,
Biography Landau obtained an engineering degree in electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in 1959, training which he completed in 1965 with a doctorate in electrical engineering at the same Institute and, in 1973, with a doctorate in physical sciences from the Joseph-Fourier University of Grenoble.
After having held several jobs in R&D until 1972 (Design Institute for Automation in Bucharest, Institute of Energy of the Romanian Academy (Group of Vasile M. Popov), Alsthom, NASA- Ames Research Center,...), he became an associate professor at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (from 1973 to 1976), then joined the CNRS where he rose, in 1983, to the position of research director.
From 1987 to 1990, he was also the director of the Grenoble Automation Laboratory (LAG).
He is one of the founders and the first president (from 1991 to 1993) of the European Union Control Association (EUCA).
From 1994 to 2002 he was editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Control (EUCA publication).
Works In 1968, Landau won the Grand Gold Medal at the Vienna Inventions Exhibition (Austria) for his patent on variable frequency control of asynchronous motors. He has since filed other international patents.
As research director at the CNRS, he launched and directed several national research programs on mathematical tools and models for automation, systems analysis and signal processing (1979-1982), adaptive systems in automatic control and signal processing (1984-1988) and automatic control (1988-1996).
During his career, he directed more than 40 doctoral theses, in France and in collaboration with various universities around the world, and participated in numerous international conferences, several of which he chaired. In particular, in 1991, in Grenoble, he chaired the organizing committee of the first European Conference on Automatic Control (European Control Conference - ECC).
In June 1998, the CNRS organized in his honour an international conference entitled "Perspectives in Control - Theory and Applications" .
Publications Landau is the author or co-author of more than 400 scientific publications in the field of automatic control.
Main works
Compte rendu de Richard V. Monopoli, dans « Proceedings of the IEEE », volume 69, numéro 9, septembre 1981 , (traduit en chinois, 1983).
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Awards and recognition
1968: gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Vienna (Austria) 1981-84: Best Review Paper Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for his article on adaptive control published in the Journal of Dynamical Systems Measurement and Control 1982: CNRS silver medal 1991: Michel-Monpetit prize of the Academy of Sciences 1992: he is distinguished Russell Severance Springer Professor from the University of California, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Berkeley 2000: Rufus Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2001-2003: "Distinguished lecturer" from the IEEE Control Systems Society 2003: doctorat honoris causa from the Faculty of Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve () 2007: IFAC Fellow 2009: Life Achievement Award from the Mediterranean Control Association 2014: Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to European Control Conference and European Control Association 2014: Robert-Houdin prize Ce prix Robert-Houdin, remis par la Communauté d'agglomération AGGLOPOLYS, est destiné à récompenser la communication la plus originale présentée au cours du 4ème colloque francophone « Adaptative active vibration isolation - A control perspective », à Blois, 18–20 novembre 2014: 2017: honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (, )
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