Marc Pélegrin Award
Since 2024, the Marc Pélegrin Best Paper Award in Automatic Control Applied to Aerospace Vehicles recognises is awarded to the authors of the best paper of every CEAS EuroGNC conference.
Marc Pélegrin was a pioneer in control theory and aerospace engineering. In memory of his outstanding involvement in their international influence, ISAE-SUPAERO and ONERA are delighted to co-fund this award, which recognises an exceptional contribution in the field of automatic control applied to aerospace vehicles.
Professor Marc Pélegrin was born in Paris on November 28th, 1923.
He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1946 and from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique (SUPAERO) in 1949.
He spent one year at MIT (MA, USA) and, back in France, he passed his PhD in 1952.
Professor Pélegrin worked as a scientist in the Technical Services of the French Air Force from 1950. From 1964, he was in charge of the relocation of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (today ISAE-SUPAERO) from Paris to Toulouse and of the creation of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse (CERT) which became part of ONERA in 1968.
During the same period he was also Professor, head of the Automatic Control and Electronic Computer department, Director of SUPAERO and the first Director of the CERT (1968-1988).
Recipients
Here is a list of recipients of the Marc Pélegrin Best Paper Award in Automatic Control Applied to Aerospace Vehicles
2024: Lasse Shala, Shubham Vyas, Mohamed Khalil Ben-Larbi, Shivesh Kumar, and Enrico Stoll for their paper entitled Region of Attraction Estimation for Free-Floating Systems under Time-Varying LQR Control (CEAS-GNC-2024-012).