Congratulations to Professor James Lam of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for receiving State Natural Science Award (Second-class) for a project “Robust Control Theory and Methodologies for Time-delay Systems”.
The project has provided systematic methods for studying time-delay systems and their synthesis problems. The focuses are on reducing the conservatism of the stability criteria and the effects of time delays in the synthesis methods for time-delay systems. The mechanism of introducing slack variables to reduce the conservatism of stability criteria has been revealed and the equivalence of several representative stability analysis methods has been established. The achievements are the result of the long-term collaboration between the mainland team at Nanjing University of Science & Technology and Professor Lam.
The State Natural Science Award (SNSA) is China’s most prestigious award in the field of natural science. Organised by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, the SNSA aims to recognise academic excellence in basic and applied research in natural science.
In addition, Professor Lam was also awarded the Second-class Natural Science Award by Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) in 2019 for a project entitled “Control Theory and Applications of Positive Systems”. The CAA Natural Science Award is given to teams or individuals who “clarify natural phenomena, characteristics, laws and methods and make major scientific discoveries in the field of basic research of automation in China.”