Controls and Art: Inquiries at the Intersection of the Subjective and the Objective

This first-of-its-kind anthology assembles technical research that makes possible such creations as dancing humanoids, robotic art installations, and music generated by mathematically precise methods. Includes open problems and topics for future research.

Amy LaViers is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia and the director of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab. She completed an undergraduate thesis at Princeton University and a doctoral dissertation at Georgia Inst. of Technology that straddle the world of art and control engineering. Her thesis at Princeton received top thesis prizes and her dissertation at Georgia Tech was accompanied by a contemporary dance show entitled "Automaton." She is the co-organizer of two Invited Sessions (the first of their kind) on Controls and Art at the American Control Conference. She received the ECE Graduate Teaching Excellence Award at Georgia Tech and the Calvin Dodd MacCracken Senior Thesis Prize, Morgan Mckenzie Senior Thesis Prize, and Lyman Page Dance Award at Princeton.

Magnus B. Egerstedt is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the School of Interactive Computing with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Magnus Egerstedt received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1996 and 2000 respectively, and he received the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University in 1996. Dr. Egerstedt's research interests include hybrid and networked control, with applications in motion planning, control and coordination of mobile robots, and he serves as Editor for Electronic Publications for the IEEE Control Systems Society and Associate Editor for the Journal of Discrete Event Systems and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. Magnus Egerstedt is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (GRITS Lab), is a Fellow of the IEEE, received the ECE/GT Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2005, the Georgia Tech Teaching Efficiency Award in 2012, and the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2003.

Other contributors – for Controls and Art, Amy LaViers and Magnus Egerstedt (Eds.):

Frederico Augugliaro, ETH Zurich

John Baillieul, Professor Boston University

Rodrigo F. Cadiz, Pontificia Universidad Cato ´lica de Chile

Luis Ignacio Reyes Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Willa Chen, Princeton University

Marco Colasso, Pontificia Universidad Cato ´lica de Chile

Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor, ETH Zurich

Katherine Fitch, Princeton University

Andrew B. Godbehere, University of California – Berkeley

Ken Goldberg, Professor, University of California – Berkeley

Jason von Heinz Meyer, Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA

Kelsey Hochgraf, Princeton University

Cristian Huepe, CHuepe Labs

Elizabeth Jochum, Northwestern University

Elliot Johnson, Northwestern University

Peter Kingston, Georgia Institute of Technology

Naomi Leonard, Edwin Wiley Professor, Princeton University

Susan Marshall, Director, Professor of Dance, Princeton University

Todd Murphey, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

Kayhan Özcimder, Boston University

Angela Schoellig, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Jarvis Shultz, Northwestern University

Hallie Siegel, ETH Zurich

Daniel T. Swain, Princeton University

Lori Teague, Director and Associate Professor, Emory University

Aaron Trippe, Princeton University
Panagiotis Tsiotras, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

George F. Young, Princeton University