Magnus Egerstedt


Magnus B. Egerstedt is a SwedishAmerican 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.

Magnus Egerstedt was born in Tby 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. At KTH, Egerstedt was involved with the Intelligent Service Agent demonstrator at CVAP, KTH as well as a radiocontrolled car at OptSyst, KTH.

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