Naum Raibman, in full Naum Samoilovich Raibman, was an outstanding scientist and a “titan” of the golden era in the history of the Institute of Automation and Remote Control, the USSR Academy of Sciences (nowadays, Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences; further called the Institute).

Raibman was born on February 4, 1921, in Medzhybizh, Khmelnytskaya oblast (Ukraine). His education at Moscow Machine Tool Institute (STANKIN) was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. Together with fellow students, Raibman served in the Red Army. After the dismissal of students, he continued his higher education. Having graduated from STANKIN (1943), Raibman was sent to Novosibirsk. For several years, he worked as a process engineer and then as a deputy head of a workshop at a local defense plant.

In 1946—1950, Raibman was a postgraduate student at Moscow Aviation Technological Institute, where he stayed after defending his candidate’s dissertation. Then Raibman delivered lectures at Ufa Aviation Institute and returned to Moscow in 1959. Since that time, he headed a department at an industry research institute.

In 1959, Raibman joined the Institute, and the identification of control systems became the area of his scientific interests.

In 1965, Raibman defended his doctoral dissertation on identification and led a research group in Pugachev’s Laboratory. In April 1968, the group was reorganized into Laboratory No. 41 of the Institute.

Raibman applied much effort to make the identification of control systems a separate branch. Within this theory, under his guidance, new methods were developed to identify multidimensional, nonlinear, time-varying objects, to determine the structure of objects, and to identify distributed parameter objects. The dispersion theory of statistically optimal systems was elaborated.

Combining the talent of a scientist and the technical erudition of an engineer, Raibman proposed the theory of adaptive control systems with an identifier (ASIs). The theory received a real embodiment: ASIs for the high-precision control of hot rolling processes of seamless pipes were adopted at many factories in the USSR.

In 1976, Laboratory No. 41, led by Raibman, was awarded the USSR State Prize for a control system for a pipe rolling mill (model 160). The system was developed and successfully implemented at the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant using UM1-NKh, a domestic computer.

Raibman devoted much time and effort to training young specialists for the USSR and Eastern European countries.

His scientific results were published in 7 books and 150 papers. They are of interest to researchers and students even nowadays.

Raibman was a member of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Znanie Society (RSFSR) and an editor of Mir and Radio i Svyaz’, well-known Soviet publishing houses.

Thanks to his intensive scientific and organizational activities, many conferences on control theory—in the USSR and worldwide under the auspices of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)—began to include sections devoted to identification.

Raibman and employees of his laboratory coordinated the branch of identification at leading international conferences and symposia held by IFAC, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), and the European Economic Commission (EEC).

Employees of Laboratory No. 41, led by Raibman, organized and held the 4th IFAC Symposium on Identification and Estimation of System Parameters (Tbilisi, 1976).

Other regular events included the All-Union Symposia on Statistical Methods in Control (Moscow, Tashkent, Frunze, and Vilnius) and the All-Union Annual Seminars on Identification within the Cybernetics program.

Raibman edited the translations of the best foreign books on identification published in the USSR.

Over the years, Raibman actively worked in the IFAC structures. During the last four years of his life, he was a member of the IFAC Advisory Committee.

Raibman suddenly passed away on January 8, 1981, over 40 years ago. He left in the prime of his creative powers. Many researchers in different countries responded with scientific publications in his honor. The 6th IFAC Symposium on Identification and Estimation of System Parameters (Washington, 1982) was dedicated to his memory as well.

Today, Raibman’s life-work—the identification of control systems—is actively developed within traditional and new lines of research, particularly in Laboratory No. 41 of the Institute.

Raibman was a man of extraordinary kindness, high intelligence, and bright giftedness. His entire adult life was devoted to developing domestic science, technology, and industry. He made an invaluable contribution to the theory of identification and control of complex systems.

Raibman’s main books and brochures are as follows:

1. Tipovye lineinye modeli ob"ektov upravleniya (Typical Linear Models of Controlled Objects), Moscow: Energoatomizdat, 1983. — 264 p. (coauthors S.A. Anisimov, I.S. Zaitseva, and A.A. Yaralov);
2. Dispersionnaya identifikatsiya (Dispersion Identification), Moscow: Nauka, 1981. — 336 p. (coauthors V.V. Kapitonenko, F.A. Ovsepyan, and P.M. Varlaki);
3. Identification of Industrial Processes, The Application of Computers in Research and Production Control, Elsevier Science, 1980. — 450 p. (coauthor V.M. Chadeev);
4. Adaptivnoe upravlenie tochnost’yu prokatki trub (Adaptive Control of Pipe Rolling Accuracy), Moscow: Metallurgiya, 1980. — 280 p. (coauthors F.A. Danilov, V.V. Imedadze, E.D. Klempert, Yu.B. Lots, Yu.G. Mironov, A.A. Rurua, M.F. Stoletnii, and V.M. Chadeev);
5. ASI - adaptivnaya sistema s identifikatorom (The ASI: An Adaptive System with an Identifier), Moscow: Institute of Control Sciences, the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980. — 67 p. (coauthors V.A. Trapeznikov and V.M. Chadeev);
6. Osnovy upravleniya tekhnologicheskimi protsessami (Foundations of Industrial Control), Moscow: Nauka, 1978. — 440 p. (coauthors S.A. Anisimov, V.N. Dyn’kin, A.D. Kasavin, V.A. Lototskii, A.S. Mandel’, and V.M. Chadeev);
7. Identifikatsiya tekhnologicheskikh ob"ektov metodami kusochnoi approksimatsii (Identification of Technological Objects by Piecewise Approximation Methods), Moscow: Institute of Control Sciences, the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1977. — 70 p. (coauthors A.A. Dorofeyuk and A.D. Kasavin);
8. Postroenie modelei protsessov proizvodstva (Modeling of Production Processes), Moscow: Energiya, 1975. — 376 p. (coauthor V.M. Chadeev);
9. Otsenka parametrov modeli pri tipovoi identifikatsii lineinykh ob"ektov (Model Parameter Estimation in Typical Identification of Linear Objects), Moscow: Institute of Control Sciences, the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1973. — 172 p. (coauthors S.A. Anisimov, A.A. Yaralov, V.A. Menyailenko, and I.S. Zaitseva);
10. Otsenka struktury modeli pri tipovoi identifikatsii lineinykh ob"ektov (Model Structure Estimation in Typical Identification of Linear Objects), Moscow: Institute of Control Sciences, the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1973. — 100 p. (coauthors S.A. Anisimov, A.A. Yaralov, V.A. Menyailenko, and I.S. Zaitseva);
11. Chto takoe identifikatsiya? (What is Identification?), Moscow: Nauka, 1970. — 120 p.
12. Adaptivnye modeli v sistemakh upravleniya (Adaptive Models in Control Systems), Moscow: Sovetskoe radio, 1966. — 155 p. (coauthor V.M. Chadeev);
13. Pomoshchnik avtomatiki (An Assistant for Automatic Equipment), Moscow: the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1961. — 118 p. (coauthors Yu.P. Leonov and S.Ya. Raevskii).

They are presented in the Institute’s database:
https://www.ipu.ru/d7ipu/books_library_grid?combine=Райбман

The list of journal papers by Raibman is available at Math-Net.Ru:

	1982
1.	P. Varlaki, N. S. Raibman, L. Szeidl, Asymptotic Behaviour of Cross Dispersion Output-Input Function of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1982, 9,  55—61      ; Autom. Remote Control, 43:9 (1982), 1143—1148.
2.	N. S. Raibman, V. O. Bogdanov, D. V. Kneller, Identification of Distributed Systems, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1982, 6,  5—36      ; Autom. Remote Control, 43:6 (1982), 703—731.
3.	V. N. Dyn’kin, S. S. Musaelyan, N. S. Raibman, Protection from Unauthorized Use of Information in an Adaptive Control System with an Identifier, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1982, 4,  127—132    ; Autom. Remote Control, 43:4 (1982), 534—538.
4.	N. S. Raibman, V. M. Chadeev, On the Concept of Adaptive Control Systems with an Identifier, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1982, 3,  54—60    ; Autom. Remote Control, 43:3 (1982), 310—315.
	1981
5.	A. L. Bunich, N. S. Raibman, A Forecasting Model for a Digital System with Finite Memory, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1981, 12,  39—43    ; Autom. Remote Control, 42:12 (1981), 1611—1614.
	1979
6.	V. V. Kapitonenko, N. S. Raibman, Using the Duality Principle in Minimax Identification, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1979, 11,  98—105      ; Autom. Remote Control, 40:11 (1980), 1635—1641.
7.	P. Varlaki, N. S. Raibman, Subjective Dispersion Functions Obtained from a Posteriori Information and Their Application in Identification of Nonlinear Plants. II, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1979, 10,  32—41      ; Autom. Remote Control, 40:10 (1980), 1427—1434.
8.	P. Varlaki, N. S. Raibman, Subjective Dispersion Functions Obtained from a Posteriori Information and Their Application in Identification of Nonlinear Plants. I, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1979, 9,  43—51      ; Autom. Remote Control, 40:9 (1980), 1292—1299.
9.	N. S. Raibman, Plant Identification (Survey), Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1979, 6,  80—93      ; Autom. Remote Control, 40:6 (1979), 845—856.
	1978
10.	F. A. Ovsepyan, N. S. Raibman, A. A. Yaralov, Identification of Plants Having a Variable Conditional Variance, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1978, 9,  59—67.
	1977
11.	V. V. Kapitonenko, N. S. Raibman, Variational Characteristics of Nonlinear Transformations of Random Processes, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1977, 3,  65—68      ; Autom. Remote Control, 38:3 (1977), 355—358.
12.	S. A. Anisimov, N. S. Raibman, On Minimax Identification, Avtomat. i Telemekh., 1977, 1,  16—22    ; Autom. Remote Control, 38:1 (1977), 11—16.
	1976
13.	A. L. Bunich, N. S. Raibman, Identification of Nonlinear Objects by Dispersion Methods, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 226:5 (1976),  1032—1033.

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The list of his papers in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika can be found at:
https://www.mathnet.ru/php/search.phtml?jrnid=at&tjrnid=at&wshow=search&option_lang=eng

For their English versions, see the microfilm collection of Automation and Remote Control:
https://archive.org/details/pub_automation-and-remote-control

Many inventions by Raibman are available at:
https://elibrary.ru/patents.asp

Publications about N.S. Raibman

Also, see the Wikipedia page devoted to Raibman:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Райбман,_Наум_Самойлович

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