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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
53
Citations
12285
World Ranking
992
National Ranking
409

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
51
Citations
11434
World Ranking
2635
National Ranking
1008

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
  • 1995 - Rufus Oldenburger Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering Contributions to the theories of optimal control and dynamic systems, and the applications of these theories to engineering, biological, and social systems.

Overview

George Leitmann is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their main field of study is Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Control and Systems Engineering, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research topics encompass Climate Change Policy and Economics, Economic theories and models, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems, Game Theory and Applications, and Economic Theory and Institutions.

Recent publications by George Leitmann include:

  • Managing the tragedy of commons and polluting emissions: A unified view (2022) published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • Optimal drilling efforts and industry structure (2024) published in AIMS environmental science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with George Leitmann include Luca Lambertini, Gustav Feichtinger, Stefan Wrzaczek, and Eduard Reithmeier.

Their work has appeared in notable publication venues such as the European Journal of Operational Research and AIMS environmental science.

George Leitmann has received several awards and honors during their career:

  • Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2009
  • Rufus Oldenburger Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1995
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1982, recognized for contributions to the theories of optimal control and dynamic systems and their applications to engineering, biological, and social systems

Best Publications

  • Continuous state feedback guaranteeing uniform ultimate boundedness for uncertain dynamic systems

    M. Corless;G. Leitmann

  • A New Class of Stabilizing Controllers for Uncertain Dynamical Systems

    B. R. Barmish;M. Corless;G. Leitmann

  • On the Efficacy of Nonlinear Control in Uncertain Linear Systems

    G. Leitmann

  • On ultimate boundedness control of uncertain systems in the absence of matching assumptions

    B. Barmish;G. Leitmann

  • Guaranteed Asymptotic Stability for Some Linear Systems With Bounded Uncertainties

    G. Leitmann

  • Robustness of uncertain systems in the absence of matching assumptions

    Y. H. Chen;G. Leitmann

  • An introduction to optimal control

    George Leitmann

  • The calculus of variations and optimal control

    George Leitmann;Daniel Tabak

  • Mathematical Methods of Optimal Control

    V. G. Boltyanskii;K. N. Trirogoff;Ivin Tarnove;George Leitmann

  • Robust control of base-isolated structures under earthquake excitation

    J. M. Kelly;G. Leitmann;A. G. Soldatos

  • Compromise Solutions, Domination Structures, and Salukvadze’s Solution

    P. L. Yu;G. Leitmann

  • Adaptive control of systems containing uncertain functions and unknown functions with uncertain bounds

    M. Corless;G. Leitmann

  • Semiactive Control for Vibration Attenuation

    George Leitmann

  • Stabilizing feedback control for dynamical systems with bounded uncertainty

    S. Gutman;G. Leitmann

  • Optimal Control of a Prey-Predator System*

    Bean San Goh;George Leitmann;Thomas L. Vincent

  • Robust control design for interconnected systems with time-varying uncertainties

    Y. H. Chen;G. Leitmann;Xiong Zhong Kai

  • On one approach to the control of uncertain systems

    G. Leitmann

  • Bounded controllers for robust exponential convergence

    M. Corless;G. Leitmann

  • Avoidance control

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  • Profit maximization through advertising: A nonzero sum differential game approach

    G. Leitmann;W. Schmitendorf

  • The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control

    George Leitmann;D. Hrovat

  • Dynamics and Control

    George Leitmann;Firdaus E. Udwadia;A V Kryazhimskii

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Corless
Martin Corless Purdue University West Lafayette
Veijo Kaitala
Veijo Kaitala University of Helsinki
Roberto Horowitz
Roberto Horowitz University of California, Berkeley
Firdaus E. Udwadia
Firdaus E. Udwadia University of Southern California
Dusan M. Stipanovic
Dusan M. Stipanovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James M. Kelly
James M. Kelly University of California, Berkeley
Claire J. Tomlin
Claire J. Tomlin University of California, Berkeley
José Rodellar
José Rodellar Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Yu-Chi Ho
Yu-Chi Ho Harvard University

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