Professor Rudolf Kalman is awarded with the title of Professor Emeritus of ITMO University

On 26 of June Rudolf Kalman, the author of Kalman filter visited ITMO University. Mr. Kalman is also the professor of Stanford University and the University of Florida, the lead engineer and the researcher in the field of control engineering. The honored guest took a tour of the main building of ITMO University and met with the winners of International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC).

Vladimir Peshehonov, the Active Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the head of the Chair of Information and Navigation Systems says, `The name of Rudolf Kalman is very significant for our generation and for our University. The filter, which he created is used in Russian navigation systems for a long time`.

Kalman filter is an effective IIR filter, which estimates the state vector of dynamic system. Nowadays it is widely used in engineering and econometric applications like radars, machine vision systems, parameter estimation of microeconomic models.

Vladimir Parfenov, the dean ofInformation Technologies and Programming Department of ITMO University, says `Kalman filter is one of the fundamental findings of technical education. If one asks some engineer what does he remember about filtration, I`m sure that he will answer `the Kalman filter`. That is why I am sure that Prof. Kalman is the legend for all of us`.

Vladimir Vasilyev, the rector of ITMO University, Vladimir Nikiforov, the vice-rector for research of ITMO University, Anatoly Shalyto, the head of Programming Technology Chair, Alexey Bobtsov, the dean of the Department of Computer Technologies and Controlling, Anton Pyrkin, the senior researcher of the Chair of Computer Science and Control Systems also participated in the meeting.

Rudolf Kalman is also going to participate in The 1st IFAC Conference on Modeling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON-2015).

`It is only the first time that I am visiting ITMO University. I hope that after my second visit I will have more to share about our potential projects`, underlines Rudolf Kalman.

Daria Sankova
News portal editorial office