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Vadim Utkin
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<p>Vadim Ivanovich Utkin was a <a href="/facts/Russians/RBG9H1Rj">Russian</a>-<a href="/facts/Americans/srd9GJ5U">American</a> <a href="/facts/Control_theory/aIuERpn6">control theorist</a>, <a href="/facts/Electrical_engineer/YYXW1KLW">electrical engineer</a> and a professor of <a href="/facts/Electrical_and_Computer_Engineering/YYXW1KLW">Electrical Engineering</a> and <a href="/facts/Mechanical_engineering/cbId4fye">Mechanical Engineering</a> at the <a href="/facts/Ohio_State_University/jfSr6u6u">Ohio State University</a>. He is best known for being one of the originators of <a href="/facts/Sliding_mode_control/218PP4uw">Sliding Mode Control</a> and <a href="/facts/Variable_structure_system/96xBWPnl">Variable Structure Systems</a>, which have become fundamental concepts in the field of <a href="/facts/Nonlinear_control/KScKca1A">nonlinear control</a> (e.g. <a href="/facts/Robust_control/SDh0dFfp">robust control</a>). </p>