Vladimir Mefodyevich Matrosov

08.05.1932-17.04.2011

 

Ye.I.Somov

Samara State Technical University

POB 11, Samara, Russia, 103012

G.L.Degtyarev, L.K.Kuzmina

A.N.Tupolev Kazan State Technical University

10, K.Marx, Kazan, 420111, Russia

Vladimir Mefodyevich Matrosov, Academician of RAS, Honorary Professor of A.N.Tupolev Kazan State Technical University (KAI), USSR National Prize Laureate, Founder-President of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences.

V.M.Matrosov graduated from KAI, he was a disciple of Pavel Alexeevich Kuzmin and was raised under the influence of deeply rooted traditions of Kazan Chetaev School of motion stability and general mechanics.

V.M.Matrosov was an outstanding scientist of worldwide reputation, who contributed much to the development of the theory of stability and control. He submitted a basic comparison principle, which became a powerful tool in the general theory of systems and enriched the gold fund of modern Science (Matrosov-Bellman comparison principle). His method of Lyapunov vector functions in the theory of stability and control was appreciated by the world scientific society and published in educational literature. The scientific areas set up by V.M.Matrosov give new opportunities in basic research of artificial intelligence, mathematical theory of systems, theory of differential and functional equations, stability theory, including their applications in the complex research of global and regional stability of development with establishment of a computer system for analysis of strategic stability in a multipolar world; applications in aerospace systems with intelligence contol systems...

V.M.Matrosov published significant scientific works, monographs, and articles that assure the priority of national Russian science in basic research and worthily carry on the traditions of Kazan Chetaev School of stability and mechanics with their extension to other spheres of Knowledge.

V.M.Matrosov's huge scientific contribution to the development of A.M.Lyapunov stability theory enabled to raise the research of complex nonlinear systems to a qualitatively new level and ensured a significant progress in the study of their dynamical properties with applications to complex multidisciplinary objects.

A distinguished scientist, talented organizer in science and higher education, brilliant representative of famous scientific Kazan Chetaev School - this is Vladimir Mefodyevich Matrosov.

Vladimir Mefodyevich Matrosov was born on 8 May 1932, in Altai. Having left school in Barnaul in 1950, he entered Kazan Aviation Institute and graduated cum laude in 1956.

 

Vladimir Mefodyevich Matrosov's life and scientific work can be divided into three periods.

Kazan period (1956-1975)

Vladimir Matrosov worked at Kazan Aviation Institute. He successively was a postgraduate student (supervised by Professor Pavel Alexeevich Kuzmin), an assistant lecturer, an associate professor of Theoretical Mechanics Department, and a Head of the Higher Mathematics Department. He established a Cybernetics Department in 1972 and managed it till 1975.

A.Matrosov defended his Candidate thesis in 1959, Doctoral thesis in 1968. He obtained important theoretical and applied results during this period. Outstanding achievements in development of Lyapunov vector functions approach (LVF) published in 1962 made him world-famous. The concept of LVF was taken up in many countries. This enabled to reveal its basic role in the analysis of different dynamic properties of nonlinear systems and profound applications to complex large-scale systems, continuous and discrete, with distributed and lumped parameters.

V.M.Matrosov together with his disciples was awarded (1984) the National Prize of the USSR for his LVF approach.

He developed the fundamentals of dynamics of orbit and stratospheric astronomical observatories. V.M.Matrosov supervised development of control algorithms for certain space systems that were implemented in a number of leading scientific-production centers and central design bureaus of the country.

Irkutsk period (1975-1991)

On the invitation of the Chairman of Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR G.I.Marchuk, V.M.Matrosov and a number of his disciples and colleagues moved to Irkutsk to establish an academic institute - Irkutsk Computing Center. Owing to a huge organizational work performed by Vladimir Matrosov in 1980, IrCC of USSR AS SB was established and housed in a new splendid building. V.M.Matrosov was a Director of Irkutsk Computing Center of USSR AS SB from 1980 till 1991.

V.M.Matrosov's scientific achievements of this period were associated with development of the main concepts of abstract control theory and construction of mathematical models of the systems of processes of different nature. He revealed an abstract comparison principle in control theory and system dynamics useful for derivation of theorems in the theory of dynamic systems, which opened a new scientific area in qualitative analysis of dynamic properties of the systems. The obtained results are of top priority in science and were further developed by his disciples and followers, who established a famous Irkutsk scientific School for the theory of stability and control.

He developed a procedure for mathematical simulation, solution of problems in dynamics and control on the basis of software packages. Under Matrosov's scientific supervision, a unique complex of smart software packages oriented towards the methods of nonlinear dynamics and control theory were developed.

Vladimir Mefodyevich was a scientific supervisor of multiple scientific research and design works carried out in IrCC of USSR AS SB by the order of leading organizations of rocket-and-space industry: SPA of Applied Mechanics (at present M.F.Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Public Corporation, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region), Central Special Design Bureau (nowadays Central Scientific-Production Rocket-and-Space Center "TsSKB-Progress", Samara), A.S.Lavochkin SPA (Khimki), Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, Central SRI of Automatics and Hydraulics (Moscow), etc.

V.M.Matrosov together with Academician M.F.Reshetnev was a Co-chairman of the session of "Dynamics and control of space objects" at the Scientific Council of USSR AS on motion control and navigation. They edited the collection of papers covering scientific results of this session that was published by Nauka Publishing House (Novosibirsk) in 1992.

V.M.Matrosov with his colleagues developed a mathematical model of the regional industry development, which enabled to predict the industry development of Irkutsk region till 1990. The forecast was used by the region authorities.

V.M.Matrosov was elected a corresponding member of AS USSR in 1976, a full member in 1987.

 

Moscow period (from 1991)

V.M.Matrosov with his family moved to Moscow in 1991. He was a Head of Moscow Branch of the Institute of Transport Problems of RAS since 1996. He established the Center of stability research and nonlinear dynamics under the A.A.Blagonravov Institute of Machine Science of RAS and was its permanent director.

During this period, Matrosov performed a fundamental research of approaches of nonlinear analysis of dynamic properties of complex systems, logical-dynamic systems and systems of variable structure. The obtained results were implemented in development of the systems of control of space vehicles of communication, geodesy and navigation (M.F.Reshetnev ISS) and the Earth surface monitoring (TsSKB-Progress).

For many years Vladimir Mefodyevich was a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and took an active part in the activities of the Technical Committee on Automatic Control in Aerospace Systems delivering his papers at the congresses and symposiums held by IFAC. The last papers by Matrosov (with his coauthors) on this subject were published in 2009 (in Russian) in the book "Space Milestones" (pages 110-129), which was a collection of papers dedicated to the 50^th Anniversary of M.F.Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Public Corporation, and in English http://lib.physcon.ru/?item=1877 in the transactions of IFAC workshop "Aerospace systems of guidance, navigation and flight control" http://www.ssc.smr.ru/agnfcs09.html.

V.M.Matrosov was a scientific supervisor and executive of the scientific project of RAS-UNESCO and a number of national programs "Bezopasnost" ("Security") dealing with mathematical simulation of branches and regions of the country allowing for possible man-made and natural disasters and research of safe transition of Russia to sustainable development.

V.M.Matrosov was one of the authors and an editor of encyclopedia "New Paradigm in Development of Russia in the 21^st Century". During the period of 1999-2001 this book was reprinted twice.

Since 2000 Academician V.M.Matrosov conducted a great work as a Chairman of an Expert Advisory Board (EAB) under the Committee of State Duma FA RF on the problems of sustainable development. In 2000-2003 he spoke at the Parliament hearings and conferences held by the Committee together with EAB.

Results of research performed by V.M.Matrosov on the recovery from social, economic and environmental crisis and elaboration of trends of long-term development of Russia meeting its national interests and corresponding to the documents adopted by UNO, were refined by a special workgroup established on his initiative under the Committee and EAB. The Committee included academicians, scientists, politicians, businessmen and representatives of public structures. In 2002 these results were published as an edition of the State Duma "Scientific Foundations of the Strategy of Sustainable Development of the Russian Federation" edited by the Academicians M.Ch.Zalikhanov, V.M.Matrosov and Professor A.M.Shelekhov.

This edition was translated into English and presented at the World Sustainable Development Forum (Johannesburg, September 2002). The work was awarded the First national environmental Prize established by the Committee of the State Duma of RF FA on Ecology and V.I.Vernadsky Non-governmental Fund.

V.M.Matrosov was a Founder and President of Interregional public organization "Academy of Nonlinear Sciences", which consolidates over 220 Russian and foreign Doctors of sciences, representing the leading scientific schools of the world in the theory of stability, nonlinear dynamic analysis and control theory, with departments deployed in six countries and seven regions of Russia.

Academician V.M.Matrosov was an initiator and editor of the International scientific bilingual Edition established in 1994 on the basis of Kazan Chetaev School of Stability under the aegis of the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts and the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, which has been issued since 1996 in the format of two international Journals:

"Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems", ISSN 1727-687X;

"Actual Problems of Aviation and Aerospace Systems", ISSN 1727-6853.

V.M.Matrosov was an Honorary member of K.E.Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics since 1996, a member of Russian national Committees on theoretical and applied mechanics (1983) and automatic control.

Among V.M.Matrosov's disciples there is one Academician of RAS, 7 Doctors of sciences, 12 Candidates of sciences. He was awarded the Badge of Honor (1981), Order of Friendship (1988), a number of medals and the National Prize of the USSR (1984).

In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Honor of Russia for his outstanding scientific achievements, scientific, organizational, educational and public activities.

Vladimir Mefodyevich is gone. The cherished memory of him is kept; it stays in the hearts of all the people who was acquainted with him:

 

According to the Decision of the International Astronomical Union, a minor planet (object 17354) was named after Academician V.M.Matrosov: <нбTRпSпV>.