Networked Control of Multi-Robot Systems 🗓 🗺
Speaker
Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology
Syllabus
A networked control system consists of a set of dynamical units that interact over a signal exchange
network for its coordinated operation and behavior. Such systems have found many applications in
diverse areas of science and engineering, including multiple space, air, land, and underwater
vehicles, energy and power systems, physiology, and medicine.
This course will provide an overview of the tools and techniques that have proven instrumental for
studying networked control systems as well as outline potential research directions. The motivating
application throughout the course will be teams of mobile robots, and the course is divided into six
lectures, corresponding to the following topics:
Lecture 1 (July 20, 2015): Network Models
Lecture 2 (July 21, 2015): Decentralized Control
Lecture 3 (July 22, 2015): Multi-Agent Robotics
Lecture 4 (July 23, 2015): Lessons from Biology
Lecture 5 (July 24, 2015): Mobile Sensor Networks
Room
Classroom N3 14:30 – 16:00 (Classroom N7 14:30 – 16:00 only for July, the 23rd)
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. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. 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. Magnus Egerstedt is the Deputy Editor-inChief for the IEEE Transactions on Network Control Systems and the past Editor for Electronic Publications for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (GRITS Lab), a Fellow of the IEEE, and a recipient of 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.
