Hidenori Kimura
- Awards
- IEEE Control Systems Award
Biography
An important contributor to both the theory and applications of control, Hidenori Kimura’s work on synthesis theory of control systems has benefitted manufacturing devices and systems ranging from the automotive industry to biology. His research on robust stabilizability was the first attempt in dealing with the synthesis aspects of robust control. It connected sensitivity optimization and robust control and introduced classical operator theory as a mathematical basis of H-infinity control. He has applied control theory to industrial system design including an aluminum cold-tandem mill and applied H-infinity control to automobile active suspension resulting in improvements in drivability, ride comfort, and safety. His work on the universal principles of biological control have been applied to treating diabetes and studying brain motor function.
An IEEE Fellow, Kimura is vice director of the Systems Innovation Center, Tokyo, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Osaka University, Japan.
