Roger W. Brockett
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| Born | October 22, 1938 Seville, Ohio |
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| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Robotics Control theory |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Case Western Reserve University. |
| Doctoral advisor | Mihajlo D. Mesarovic |
Roger Ware Brockett (October 22, 1938 Seville, Ohio) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.[1][2]
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[edit] Biography
Brockett received his B.S. in 1960, his M.S. in 1962, and his Ph.D. in 1964 (under the supervision of Mihajlo D. Mesarovic), all from Case Western Reserve University.
After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1969, he joined the faculty at Harvard University where he became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and in 1989 the An Wang Professor.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1989 the American Automatic Control Council honored him with the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, and in 1991 the IEEE gave him their Field award in Systems Science and Engineering. In 1996 he won the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Reid Prize in Mathematics, and in 2004 he won the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[3][4]
[edit] Trivia
- Roger Brockett has an Erdős number of 3: Paul Erdös - Foong Frances Yao - David P. Dobkin - Roger Ware Brockett.
[edit] References
- ^ Baillieul, J. (1999). Mathematical Control Theory. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0387983171.
- ^ Roach, John (May 19, 2003), “Robots May Be Built as Companions, Expert Says”, National Geographic News, <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0519_030519_robots.html>.
- ^ Biography at the University of Maryland.
- ^ Biography of Brockett as a plenary speaker at IFAC 2008.
[edit] External links
- Brockett's web page at Harvard
- Roger W. Brockett at the website of the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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