Karl Johan Åström: advisors and students

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Karl Johan Åström

Swedish control theoristborn 1934

Supervised 17 doctoral students (23 students at any level) at 73e9fd60-426f-4d45-8a1d-3e898c29315a, 8e73f2ec-15e4-49a8-9812-22e7652c509f, and a82bf0fd-cd50-4e3d-b610-3bc391dbba5f; wrote 1 thesis; Wikidata names Bengt Joel Andersson as doctoral advisor and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Students23

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Josefin Berner “Automatic Tuning of PID Controllers Based on Asymmetric Relay Feedback”
2015 · 60f23a4b-011c-446a-add6-0da80a25941a · licentiate
cited by a thesis record
Martin Hast “Design of Low-Order Controllers using Optimization Techniques”
2015 · 73e9fd60-426f-4d45-8a1d-3e898c29315a · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anders Pettersson “Augmenting L1 Adaptive Control of Piecewise Constant Type to Aerial Vehicles”
2013 · fc640d3b-8314-426b-95e6-342cddedf7b0 · licentiate
cited by a thesis record
Hubertus Tummescheit “Design and Implementation of Object-Oriented Model Libraries using Modelica”
2002 · 8e73f2ec-15e4-49a8-9812-22e7652c509f · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jonas Eborn “On Model Libraries for Thermo-hydraulic Applications”
2001 · a82bf0fd-cd50-4e3d-b610-3bc391dbba5f · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anders Wallén “Tools for Autonomous Process Control”
2000 · 045c16e6-e55f-4891-a7ed-a2c9796af1cc · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mikael Johansson “Piecewise Linear Control Systems”
1999 · 27878d2f-d6ac-4596-946f-32ce5b171c4f · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mattias Grundelius “Motion Control of Open Containers with Slosh Constraints”
1998 · d410c661-c92a-44c1-bb43-520248d7dad1 · licentiate
cited by a thesis record
Jörgen Malmborg “Analysis and Design of Hybrid Control Systems”
1998 · d0c16240-df0a-4f8b-9408-a063ea733ef6 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Helene Panagopoulos “PID Controller Design”
1998 · b1411528-fcdd-43bc-be52-3ff3e8ea7507 · licentiate
cited by a thesis record
Johan Eker “A Framework for Dynamically Configurable Embedded Controllers”
1997 · 3ac6b49f-d0b2-4293-bb66-9ef1cdaca5a4 · licentiate
cited by a thesis record
Karl Henrik Johansson “Relay Feedback and Multivariable Control”
1997 · 43da6adf-fe86-47e0-89ce-ff1c62a8ea4e · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Klas Nilsson “Industrial Robot Programming”
1996 · 04fa24a6-3683-4813-8475-cecb03f98c04 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bernt Nilsson “Object-Oriented Modeling of Chemical Processes”
1993 · fc637d52-2533-4d07-adf5-2fd5c10752bb · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bo Bernhardsson “Topics in Digital and Robust Control of Linear Systems”
1992 · 97c99e0f-6942-45f9-9188-a6bd7585331e · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jan Eric Larsson “Knowledge-Based Methods for Control Systems”
1992 · f7bb115e-33fc-421c-9375-ca1c3323a29b · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Per Persson “An Expert System Interface for Idpac”
1987 · f7bb115e-33fc-421c-9375-ca1c3323a29b · licentiate
cited by a thesis record
Karl-Erik Årzén “Realization of Expert System Based Feedback Control”
1987 · c9604e64-9645-4ea4-b3e3-f6f4462d0502 · doctoral
cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Rolf Johansson “Multivariable Adaptive Control”
1983 · 86c43e01-1a94-40bf-b6ad-2599fc65447e · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tore Hägglund “New Estimation Techniques for Adaptive Control”
1983 · 5f4f65f0-f906-45b2-be0d-144e241b80d4 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lars Jensen “Digital reglering av klimatprocesser”
1978 · f01d4956-21ff-4389-bd9e-b9ff1707c9be · doctoral
cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Björn Wittenmark “Self-Tuning Regulators”
1973 · e2473912-53d2-413e-9933-e8974a314e92 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Per Hagander “Operator Factorization and Other Aspects of the Analysis of Linear Systems”
1973 · 38bcf796-a08a-4b8b-a8dc-f4f9e61147e2 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Bengt Joel Andersson

Students on Wikidata7

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stated by Wikidata
Torsten Söderström
born 1945
stated by Wikidata
Lennart Ljung
born 1946
stated by Wikidata
Per Olof Gutman
born 1949
stated by Wikidata
Karl Henrik Johansson
born 1967
stated by Wikidata
Bengt Mårtensson
stated by Wikidata
Jan Holst
stated by Wikidata
Jan Sternby

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataBengt Joel Andersson

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 217 people: 161 cited by thesis records, 59 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

cited by a thesis record
Stabilisering av plattformar med enaxliga gyroskop : Sammanfattning av licentiatavhandling i regleringsteknik vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
1960 · 15de7b15-18a9-467c-9d46-9683ef0995a9 · licentiate · in Swedish · the thesis's own page ›

Education and career4

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undated
Royal Institute of Technology
studied
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Lund University
worked
undated
Royal Institute of Technology
worked
undated
Swedish National Defence Research Institute
worked

Works1

1960 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

cited by LUP, Lund's record
Stabilisering av plattformar med enaxliga gyroskop : Sammanfattning av licentiatavhandling i regleringsteknik vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
1960 · thesis · LUP, Lund

At a glance

known as: electrical engineer
awards: IEEE Medal of Honor, 1993, The KTH Great Prize, 1985, Rufus Oldenburger Medal, 1985, honorary doctorate from INP Grenoble, 1987, honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology, 1996
member of: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, National Academy of Engineering
Wikipedia: in 10 languages

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stated by WikidataWikipediaKarl Johan Åström
stated by WikidataWikidataQ462685
stated by WikidataVIAF94610501
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stated by WikidataISNI000000010926780X

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Karl Johan Åström: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q462685},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Karl Johan Åström: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q462685