The IFAC Foundation Kwon Award
Purpose and Funding
One of the aims of the IFAC Foundation is to promote the awareness and dissemination of the social relevance of automatic control. The IFAC Foundation recognizes at each IFAC World Congress the contributions of individuals or a group of individuals who through their work have shown how automatic control science and technology can contribute to significant advances in the broad area of “sustainable development”. This includes work on the topics of renewable and clean energy, management of energy, water and resources in general, control in agriculture, pollution control, climate control, and related topics.
The IFAC Foundation Kwon Award is made in honour of Professor Wook Hyun Kwon whose initial donation fostered the creation of the IFAC Foundation. It is awarded for a paper published in one of the IFAC Journals (https://www.ifac-control.org/publications/journals), and it is fully funded by the IFAC Foundation.
Award
The winner (or winning team) receives a certificate and cash prize of 2000 euro (total). Moreover, the awardee(s) are recognized appropriately during the IFAC World Congress at which the award is given.
Past awardees
| Year | Congress Site | Winner | Country |
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2017 |
Toulouse |
Salman Hafeez, Steven R. Weller, and Christopher M. Kellett for their paper "Impact of Climate Model Parametric Uncertainty in an MPC Implementation of the DICE Integrated Assessment Model" published in the proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress 2017 (pp. 959-965). Citation: “For the use of advanced control technology to potentially impact the climate change policy.” |
AU |
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2020 |
Berlin |
No award was given |
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2023 |
Yokohama |
Juan D. Gil, Lidia Roca, Guillermo Zaragoza, Julio E. Normey-Rico, and Manuel Berenguel for their paper "Hierarchical control for the start-up procedure of solar thermal fields with direct storage" published in Control Engineering Practice 2020 (vol. 95, 104254). |
ES/BR |