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Puppet Magnus, part of the National Science Foundation project "Puppet Choreography and Automated Marionettes"[1]
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| Born | June 28, 1971 Täby Municipality, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Residence | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Nationality | American (2008-present) Swedish (1971-2008) |
| Fields | Robotics Control theory |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm University |
| Doctoral advisor | Xiaoming Hu Anders Lindquist |
Magnus B. Egerstedt (born June 28, 1971) is a Swedish-American roboticist, a 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.[2]
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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.[3] At KTH, Egerstedt was involved with the Intelligent Service Agent demonstrator at CVAP, KTH as well as a radio-controlled car at OptSyst, KTH.[4]
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 holds the position of 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.
Egerstedt has earned numerous awards and honors during his career:
At Georgia Tech, Magnus Egerstedt is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) Lab. The research topics of the lab include:
Egerstedt has authored over 100 research papers in the areas of robotics and control. Books:
Egerstedt has an Erdős number of 3: Magnus B. Egerstedt[8] - Vincent D. Blondel[9] - Harold S. Shapiro[10] - Paul Erdős