Karl Johan Åström
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Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, 1934) is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control. In 1965, he described a general framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information, what ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process.
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Born | (1934-08-05) August 5, 1934 (age 89) |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology |
Awards | Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1985) IEEE Medal of Honor (1993) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Doctoral students | Lennart Ljung Karl Henrik Johansson[1] |
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In 1995, Åström was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to identification, stochastic, and adaptive control and their incorporation in control engineering practice.