12:00 PM-1:00 PM on October 1, 2014
Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building 1116
Title: Control of Multi-Robot Systems
Abstract
The last few years have seen significant progress in our understanding of how one should structure multi-robot systems. New control, coordination, and communication strategies have emerged, and in this talk, we discuss some of these developments. In particular, we will show how one can go from global, geometric, team-level specifications to local coordination rules for achieving and maintaining formations, area coverage, and swarming behaviors. One aspect of this process concerns how users can interact with networks of mobile robots in order to inject new, global information and objectives. We will also investigate what global objectives are fundamentally implementable in a distributed manner on a collection of spatially distributed and locally interacting agents.
Bio
Magnus Egerstedt is the Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he serves as associate chair for Research and External Affairs.
Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of complex networks, such as multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems. He is the deputy editor-in-chief for the IEEE Transactions on Network Control Systems and the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (GRITS Lab).
Additionally, Egerestedt is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of numerous awards, including the ECE/GT Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, the HKN Outstanding Teacher Award, the Alum of the Year Award from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Egerstedt received an M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and he was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University.
