Institute of Control Sciences

Institute Structure

The Institute maintains flexible and dynamic structure, capable of adapting to solving new problems both fundamental and applied. Functional orientation is not the main factor used in setting-up of the Institute laboratories. For example, there are no laboratories dealing with control processes in metallurgy, power industry, etc. However, the Institute has laboratories engaged in identification, management control, modeling, computer-aided design, etc. In a number of cases some "over-and-above structure" divisions have been created in the Institute to achieve prompt solution of concrete problems.

The Board of Directors does general guidance of the Institute. The Board includes Academician Ivery V.Prangishvili and two Deputy-Directors, B.V.Pavlov and A.N.Shubin, who provides scientific activity guidance. The board also includes two deputy-directors on economical and general aspects. The Scientific Council headed by the Institute director coordinates the scientific research in the Institute. Seven sections of the Scientific Council are responsible for the following directions of the works:

· theory of control systems;
· control in social and medical-biological systems;
· technical means of "hardware" of automation and computer engineering:
· systems for control of technological processes;
· software for complexes and networks;
· computer-aided management systems;
· control of moving objects;

The Institute of Control Sciences is one of the largest and significant scientific institutions in the Russian Federation. When founded, the Institute had 22 employees, of which only 6 scientists had scientific degrees. At present there are over 800 scientific researchers including 2 RAS Corresponding Members, over 70 D.Sc. and almost 350 Ph.D. working in the Institute. The Institute paid great attention to training of specialists and personnel from the very start of its existence.

During the first year of its foundation a post-graduate chair was set up and the first group of post-graduates passed the admission exams. The first dissertations (theses) were submitted in 1944. Among those who completed the post-graduate course, over 1000 scientists defended doctoral and candidate theses and many of them became leading specialists in their republics and countries. The scientists of the Institute deliver lectures at the well-known Moscow high schools and universities – Physico - Technical, Aviation, Power Engineering and others.

A great number of highly skilled foreign specialists was specially trained for the research activities in their home countries such as Hungary, Czech & Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Vietnam, etc. The scientists of the Institute are well known all over the world. Their articles, monographs are published in various languages in different countries. The journal "Automation and Remote Control", which is closely connected with the Institute from the very beginning of its history, is also a well-known international publication.

The institute gives great attention to training of highly skilled scientists and personnel. The training focuses on the Institute Post-graduates Board. There are many Academicians and leading specialists of the republics in the former Soviet Union among those who completed its course. The quality of this training course center is convincingly demonstrated by the fact that the Institute Director, his three Deputy- Directors, Scientific Secretary, most of the of laboratory directors, as well as leading researches are actually those who successfully completed the Institute post-graduate study course.