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Hi--I work as a communications manager at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Magnus Egerstedt is the School Chair in my School - the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He'd like to suggest quite a few changes to his article. It was created many moons ago by an old student. I'm going to post the suggested changes below. Apologies advance if I'm doing this wrong.

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Magnus B. Egerstedt (born June 28, 1971) is a Swedish-American roboticist, the Steve C. Chaddick School Chair and Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Biography[edit] Education[edit] Magnus Egerstedt was born in Täby Municipality, Stockholm, Sweden in 1971. He received his B.A. from Stockholm University in Theoretical Philosophy in 1996, specializing in language philosophy and with a thesis titled Implicit Knowledge and Public Mathematical Meaning, while simultaneously attending 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 affiliated with (and the first graduate from) the Center for Autonomous Systems, KTH.[4]

Career[edit] 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 robots. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow under Roger W. Brockett at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, focusing on formal methods for robot control.

Egerstedt joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001, where he has held the positions of Schlumberger Professor (2013-2016), Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls (2016-2018), and Associate Chair for Research (2014-2016). Since 2018 is the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Egerstedt is also holds adjunct appointments in the School of Interactive Computing, the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, and the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In 2016, Egerstedt was named the Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines; a position he held for two years.[5] In 2017, he launched the Robotarium, a swarm-robotic research testbed whose goal is to provide access to a state-of-the-art test facility to researchers around the globe.[6]

Professional Activities[edit] • Program Chair, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, FL, Dec. 2018. • Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, 2013 - 2016. • General Chair, ADHS: Analysis and Dynamics of Hybrid Systems, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2015. • Senior Editor, Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2014 - 2016. • Editor, Electronic Publications – IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009 - 2012. • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2007 - 2011. • Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2006 - 2008. • General Chair, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, St Louis, MO, Apr. 2008.

Honors and Awards[edit] Egerstedt has earned a number of teaching and research 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.[8] • Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. • Fellow of the IEEE (Controls Systems & Robotics and Automation Societies), 2012. • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society (2013-2015). • Royal Institute of Technology Alumnus of the Year, 2013. • Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award, 2015. • John R. Ragazzini Education Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2015. • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award, 2017.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech[edit]

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech is one of the largest producers of electrical and computer engineers in the country. The undergraduate and graduate programs consistently rank on the top six in the nation. The School has over 100 faculty members and is home to 11 areas of specialization. Link to: https://www.ece.gatech.edu/

The Robotarium[edit]

The Robotarium is a remotely accessible swarm robotics test bed designed and developed by Magnus Egerstedt at Georgia Tech. The Robotarium provides researchers working on swarm robotics access to both ground and aerial robots. Since its launch in August 2017, over 200 research groups from all continents except Antarctica have used the Robotarium.

Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) Lab[edit]

At Georgia Tech, Magnus Egerstedt is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) Lab. The research topics of the lab include: • Swarm robotics: formation control, flocking and swarming algorithms and applications of swarm robotics. • Autonomous robots: learning and path-planning for both structured indoor and unstructured outdoor environments. • 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.

Publications[edit] Egerstedt has authored over 400 research papers in the areas of robotics and control, including the books: • M. Egerstedt and C.F. Martin. Control Theoretic Splines: Optimal Control, Statistics, and Path Planning. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010. • 2010, Egerstedt, Magnus; Mesbahi, Mehran Graph Theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks. New Jersey: Princeton University Press; July 2010. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14061-2.

Trivia[edit] Egerstedt has an Erdős number of 3: Magnus B. Egerstedt[11] - Vincent D. Blondel[12] - Harold S. Shapiro[13] - Paul Erdős

Ashbo00 (talk) 15:15, 14 August 2018 (UTC)Ashbo00[reply]

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What is meant by Z--a reference which verifies the requested change?Ashbo00 (talk) 20:18, 14 August 2018 (UTC)Ashbo00[reply]

That would be a reference to a reliable source. The reference provided should be able to confirm the information that is being added, and will be included in the article with the claim. In the text you added in your proposal, the reference would be indicated by the number inside of brackets looking like this: [1]. Those references should be provided here on the talk page. Also, directions should be included as to what is to be done with the text you've provided, such as is it to be added to the article, or omitted. Please advise. Thank you ! spintendo 21:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!Ashbo00 (talk) 13:57, 16 August 2018 (UTC)Ashbo00[reply]

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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.[7]
   School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2005.

Replace with: Honors and Awards Egerstedt has earned a number of teaching and research 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.[8] • Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. • Fellow of the IEEE (Controls Systems & Robotics and Automation Societies), 2012. • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society (2013-2015). • Royal Institute of Technology Alumnus of the Year, 2013. • Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award, 2015. • John R. Ragazzini Education Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2015. • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award, 2017.

Source: https://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/magnus-egerstedt-0

Ashbo00 (talk) 20:08, 16 August 2018 (UTC)Ashbo00[reply]

The source you've provided is too closely related to the subject himself (his employer). Unless the employer bestowed these awards, a third party source or perhaps a citation from the organization who presented the award would be helpful here. Let me know if you need help finding these. spintendo 20:47, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would love help, if you have the time! Ashbo00 (talk) 15:34, 20 August 2018 (UTC)Ashbo00[reply]