Arjan J. van der Schaft () é um engenheiro eletricista neerlandês, professor da Universidade de Groningen.
Foi palestrante convidado do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos em Madrid (2006: Lista de palestrantes do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos).
Livros System Theoretic Descriptions of Physical Systems (1984) Variational and Hamiltonian Control Systems (1987, with P.E. Crouch) Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems (1990, with H. Nijmeijer) L2-Gain and Passivity Techniques in Nonlinear Control (2000) An Introduction to Hybrid Dynamical Systems (2000, with J.M. Schumacher) Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems: the Port-Hamiltonian Approach (Geoplex Consortium, 2009)
Honors and awards Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers since 2002. The paper "A.J. van der Schaft, L2-gain analysis of nonlinear systems and nonlinear state feedback H∞ control, TAC. AC-37, pp. 770–784, 1992" was the Dutch research paper in international scientific journals within the Technical Sciences that obtained the largest number of citations during the evaluation period 1994–1998.Nederlands Observatorium voor Wetenschap en Techniek, Wetenschaps- en Technologie-indicatoren Rapport 2000, page 59, Table 3.10. Invited semi-plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, 22–30 August 2006: From networks models to geometry: a new view on Hamiltonian systems. SICE Takeda Best Paper Prize 2008 for "An approximation method for the stabilizing solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for integrable systems", a Hamiltonian perturbation approach', Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), 43, pp. 572–580, 2007.
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