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Magnus B. Egerstedt (born June 28, 1971) is a
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. He was formerly the Steve C. Chaddick School Chair and Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
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. Egerstedt is a major contributor to the theory of hybrid and discrete event systems, and in particular, the control of
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Biography


Education

Magnus Egerstedt was born in
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in 1971. He received his
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from
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in Theoretical Philosophy in 1996, specializing in language philosophy and with a thesis titled ''Implicit Knowledge and Public Mathematical Meaning,'' while simultaneously attending the
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, where he received in 1996 an
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. During this period, Egerstedt visited
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, and completed his M.S. thesis ''A Model of the Combined Planar Motion of the Human Head and Eye''. In 2000, Egerstedt completed a
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under the advisement of Xiaoming Hu and Anders Lindquist for the thesis ''Motion Planning and Control of Mobile Robots''. At KTH, Egerstedt was affiliated with (and the first graduate from) the Center for Autonomous Systems.


Career

In 1998, Egerstedt was a
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at the Robotics Laboratory at the
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, where he collaborated with Shankar S. Sastry on the hybrid control of mobile robotics. From 2000 to 2001, he was a
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at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
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, focusing on formal methods for robot control. Egerstedt joined the
Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...
as a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001, where he has held the positions of Schlumberger
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(2013–2016), Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls (2016–2018), and Associate Chair for Research (2014–2016). In August 2018, he was appointed as the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Egerstedt is also holds adjunct appointments in the School of Interactive Computing, the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, and the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2016, Egerstedt was named the Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, a position he held for two years. In 2017, Egerstedt launched the Robotarium, a swarm-robotic research testbed whose goal is to provide access to a state-of-the-art test facility to researchers around the globe. In July 2021, Egerstedt joined the
University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
, where he is the
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Professional activities

* Program Chair, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, FL, Dec. 2018. * Deputy editor-in-chief, ''IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems'', 2013 – 2016. * General Chair, ADHS: Analysis and Dynamics of Hybrid Systems, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2015. * Senior editor, ''Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems'', 2014 – 2016. * Editor, Electronic Publications – IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009 – 2012. * Associate editor, ''IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control'', 2007 – 2011. * Associate editor, ''IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine'', 2006 – 2008. * General Chair, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, St Louis, MO, Apr. 2008.


Honors and awards

Egerstedt has earned a number of teaching and research awards and honors during his career: * CAREER award from the U.S.
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in 2003 for the project Linguistic Control of Mobile Robots. * Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. * Fellow of the IEEE (Controls Systems & Robotics and Automation Societies), 2012. * Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society (2013–2015). * Royal Institute of Technology Alumnus of the Year, 2013. * Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award, 2015. * John R. Ragazzini Education Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2015. * IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award, 2017. *Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2019


The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the largest producers of electrical engineers and computer engineers in the United States. Over 2,600 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top five of the most recent college rankings by ''U.S. News & World Report''. In addition to the main campus in Atlanta, Georgia, ECE also has permanent operations at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in France and Georgia Tech-Shenzhen in China.


The Robotarium

The Robotarium is a remotely accessible swarm robotics testbed designed and developed by Magnus Egerstedt at Georgia Tech. The Robotarium provides researchers working on swarm robotics access to both ground and aerial robots. Since its launch in August 2017, over 200 research groups from all continents except Antarctica have used the Robotarium.


Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) Lab

At Georgia Tech, Magnus Egerstedt is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) Lab. The research topics of the lab include: *
Swarm robotics Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple robots as a system which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. ″In a robot swarm, the collective behavior of the robots results from local interactions between ...
: formation control, flocking and swarming algorithms and applications of swarm robotics. *
Autonomous robots An autonomous robot is a robot that acts without recourse to human control. The first autonomous robots environment were known as Elmer and Elsie, which were constructed in the late 1940s by W. Grey Walter. They were the first robots in history ...
: learning and path-planning for both structured indoor and unstructured outdoor environments. * Networked control systems: producing systems with provable global properties from local interaction and communication rules. *
Hybrid systems A hybrid system is a dynamical system that exhibits both continuous and discrete dynamic behavior – a system that can both ''flow'' (described by a differential equation) and ''jump'' (described by a state machine or automaton). Often, the te ...
: optimal control, observers and observability, and specification languages for hybrid systems.


Publications

Egerstedt has authored over 400 research papers in the areas of robotics and control, including the books: * 2008, M. Egerstedt and B. Mishra, (editors). ''Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control''. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop (St. Louis), HSCC 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Springer, April 2008. 680 pp. . * 2010, Egerstedt, Magnus; Mesbahi, Mehran ''Graph Theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks''. New Jersey: Princeton University Press; July 2010. 424 pp. .


Trivia

Egerstedt has an
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Harold S. Shapiro Harold Seymour Shapiro (2 April 1928 – 5 March 2021) was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, best known for inventing the so-called Shapiro polynomials (also known as Golay–Shapiro polynomia ...
Paul Erdős Paul Erdős ( hu, Erdős Pál ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in ...


References


External links


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