Rudolf Kálmán
Rudolf Emil Kálmán ( Hungarian Kálmán Rudolf Emil ; born May 19, 1930 in Budapest ; † July 2, 2016 in Gainesville , Florida ) was an American electrical engineer and mathematician of Hungarian origin. In 1960 he developed the Kalman filter named after him .
Life
Kálmán was born in Budapest in 1930, but emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1943 , where he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his master's degree in 1954 . He received a doctorate degree from Columbia University in 1957 , to which he had switched after graduating from MIT.
He worked at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1958 to 1964 and was appointed professor at Stanford University in 1964 . In 1971 he moved to the University of Florida as director of the Center for Mathematical Systems Theory . At the same time he took over the management of the Center for Mathematical Systems Theory at the ETH Zurich . In 1997 he retired from ETH Zurich.
Kálmán was a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1994), the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993). He was also a member of the Hungarian (1976), French (1989) and Russian (1994) Academy of Sciences . He was married and had two children.
Act
Kálmán's idea of the Kalman filter was initially viewed with such skepticism by other mathematicians that he decided to publish his idea first in a mechanical engineering journal instead of a mathematical one. His idea only caught on when he visited Stanley Schmidt at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1967 and told him about it. Stanley was convinced and the Kalman filter was used during the Apollo program.
honors and awards
- 1964 IEEE Fellow
- 1974 IEEE Medal of Honor
- 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal
- 1985 Inamori foundation's Kyoto Prize in High Technology
- 1987 Leroy P. Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society
- 1997 Bellman Prize
- 2008 Charles Stark Draper Prize
- 2008 National Medal of Science of the USA
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Kálmán in the catalog of the German National Library
- A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems. (PDF; 172 kB) 1960, Transactions of the ASM-Journal of Basic Engineering, Volume 82, pp. 35-45.
- Rudolph E. Kalman. Biography. On: ieeeghn.org .
- Obituary Prof. Dr. Rudolf E. Kalman (ETH Zurich) ( Memento from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Elhunyt Kálmán Rudolf. At: nlcafe.hu. July 5, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ↑ Remembering Rudolf E. Kalman (1930-2016). ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: eng.ufl.edu. Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, July 7, 2016, accessed July 9, 2016.
- ^ IEEE Fellows Directory , accessed March 16, 2018
- ↑ ETH emeritus Rudolf Kalman honored. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. January 3, 2008, accessed January 6, 2011.
- ^ The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details. At: nsf.gov.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kálmán, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kálmán, Rudolf Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician of Hungarian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 2016 |
| Place of death | Gainesville , Florida , United States |