Roger W. Brockett
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An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering 617/495-3922 TEL |
Research Interests
Dynamics and control of smart structures; intelligent machines; dynamical systems and computation; tactile sensing; pulse mode computation; motion control and motor networks; robotic manipulation, computer vision
Background Information
Roger Brocket joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 as an assistant professor and Ford Foundation Fellow, working in automatic control. In 1969 he was appointed Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard, where he became An Wang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in 1989. Experimental and theoretical aspects of robotics, including aspects of manipulation, computer control and sensor data fusion, are the focus of his present work.
Dr. Brockett has held visiting positions at a number of universities, including the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Brockett has been involved in the professional activities of IEEE, SIAM and AMS, having served on the advisory committees and editorial boards for several groups in these societies, including IEEE's Transactions on Automatic Control and the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He was a co-editor for Systems and Control Letters from its founding until 1980.
In 1989, he received the American Automatic Control Council's Richard E. Bellman Award, and in 1991, he received the IEEE Control Systems and Engineering Field Award. In 1996 he received SIAM's Reid Prize for his work in differential equations and control. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Links
Harvard
University
Harvard
Robotics Lab
Center
for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures
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