Magnus B. Egerstedt

Infobox_Scientist
name = Magnus B. Egerstedt

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caption = Puppet Magnus, part of the National Science Foundation project "Puppet Choreography and Automated Marionettes" [ [http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0757317 Collaborative Research: Major: Puppet Choreography and Automated Marionettes] ]
birth_date = 1971
birth_place = Täby Municipality, Stockholm, Sweden
death_date =
death_place =
residence = Atlanta, Georgia
nationality = American (2008-present) Swedish (1971-2008)
field = Robotics Control theory
work_institution = Georgia Institute of Technology
alma_mater = Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm University
doctoral_advisor = Xiaoming Hu
Anders Lindquist

Magnus B. Egerstedt (born 1971) is a Swedish-American roboticist, an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and an Associate Director of Research for the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.

Egerstedt is a major contributor to the theory of hybrid and discrete event systems, and in particular, the control of multi-agent systems.cite journal
author = Egerstedt, M.
coauthors = Hu, X.
year = 2001
title = Formation constrained multi-agent control
journal = Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on
volume = 17
issue = 6
pages = 947–951
url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=976029
accessdate = 2008-04-21
doi = 10.1109/70.976029]

Biography

Education

Magnus Egerstedt was born in Täby Municipality, Stockholm, Sweden in 1971 and attended Stockholm University. He received his B.A. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1996, specializing in language philosophy and with a thesis titled "Implicit Knowledge and Public Mathematical Meaning". Egerstedt then joined the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory at the Royal Institute of Technology, where he received in 1996 a M.S. in Engineering Physics. During this period, Egerstedt visited Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and completed his M.S. thesis "A Model of the Combined Planar Motion of the Human Head and Eye". In 2000, Egerstedt completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics under the advisement of Xiaoming Hu and Anders Lindquist for the thesis "Motion Planning and Control of Mobile Robots".cite journal
author = Egerstedt, M.
year = 2000
title = Motion Planning and Control of Mobile Robots
url = http://www.diva-portal.org/kth/abstract.xsql?dbid=2948
accessdate = 2008-04-06] At KTH, Egerstedt was involved with the Intelligent Service Agent demonstrator at CVAP, KTH as well as a radio-controlled car at OptSyst, KTH. [ [http://www.nada.kth.se/cas/cas-news.pdf Centre for Autonomous Systems biography of Magnus Egerstedt] ]

In 1998, Egerstedt was a Visiting Scholar at the Robotics Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley where he collaborated with Shankar S. Sastry on the hybrid control of mobile robotics. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow under Roger W. Brockett at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Egerstedt joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001, and now hold the position of Associate Professor. Egerstedt is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Interactive and Intelligent Computing, and a Visiting Professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology.

Professional Activities

* Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
* Guest Editor for MONET ROBOCOMM 2007, Special Issue in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications.
* Guest Editor for Design, Control, and Applications of Real-World Multi-Robot Systems. Special Issue in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2008.
* Guest Editor for Symbolic Methods for Complex Control Systems. Special Issue in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 6, June 2006.

Honors and Awards

Egerstedt has earned numerous awards and honors during his career:

* CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2003 for the project "Linguistic Control of Mobile Robots". [ [http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0237971 Award#0237971 - CAREER: Linguistic Control of Mobile Robots ] ]
* School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2005.

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:

* Hybrid systems: optimal control, observers and observability, and specification languages for hybrid systems.
* Networked control systems: producing systems with provable global properties from local interaction and communication rules.
* Mobile robotics: learning and path-planning for both structured indoor and unstructured outdoor environments.

Patents

* System and Methods For Data-Driven Control of Manufacturing Processes. [ [http://www1.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week06-old/OG/html/1315-1/US07171897-20070206.html System and Methods For Data-Driven Control of Manufacturing Processes] ] [ [http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/speedline.htm Closing the Loop: Georgia Tech Researchers Develop New Data-driven Closed-loop control for stencil printers] ]

Publications

Egerstedt has authored over 100 research papers in the areas of robotics and control. Books:
* 2008, M. Egerstedt and B. Mishra, (editors). "Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control". Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop, HSCC 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Springer-Verlag, April 2008.

Trivia

Egerstedt has an Erdős number of 3: Magnus B. Egerstedtcite conference
author = Egerstedt, M.
coauthors = Blondel, V.D.
year = 2002
title = How hard is it to control switched systems?
conference =
booktitle = American Control Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002
volume = 3
publisher =
url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1023905
conferenceurl = ] - Vincent D. Blondelcite journal
author = Blondel, V.D.
coauthors = Rupp, R.; Shapiro, H.S.
year = 1995
title = On Zero and One Points of Analytic Functions
journal = Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations
volume = 28
issue = 2
pages = 189-192
url = http://www.informaworld.com/index/779103841.pdf
accessdate = 2008-07-06] - Harold S. Shapiros1965>cite journal
author = Erdős, P.
coauthors = Shapiro, H.S.; Shields, A.L.; File, P.D.F.
year = 1965
title = Large and small subspaces of Hilbert space.
journal = Michigan Math. J
volume = 12
issue = 2
pages = 169-178
url = http://www.renyi.hu/~p_erdos/1965-03.pdf
accessdate = 2008-07-06] - Paul Erdős

References

External links

* [http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~magnus/ Home Page]
* [http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/fac_profiles/publications.php?id=30 ECE Profile]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=63603 Mathematics Genealogy Project profile]
* [http://gritslab.ece.gatech.edu/about.html GRITS lab]