{"220961":{"#nid":"220961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Inside Magnus Egerstedt\u0027s MOOC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEd. note: This story appears in the first issue of Georgia Tech Engineers, the new magazine from the College of Engineering. To request a copy of the magazine, please \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eemail the editor\u003C\/a\u003E at editor@coe.gatech.edu.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a problem with the robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/%7Emagnus\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/a\u003E eyes them with dismay. His robots, rotund little things that wouldn\u2019t look out of place in a Roomba ad, are misbehaving. They\u2019re crawling toward two silver cases in the middle of the floor, but just before reaching them, they\u2019re supposed to sense the obstacles and skitter away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe demonstration is the highlight of Egerstedt\u2019s lecture; it is the center ring of this particular circus. A professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE), Egerstedt is teaching a class on robot control, and the point of the course tends to be lost if the robots in question are going rogue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo read the rest of the story, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/content\/inside-magnus-egerstedts-mooc\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEd. note: This story appears in the first issue of Georgia Tech Engineers, the new magazine from the College of Engineering. To request a copy of the magazine, please \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eemail the editor\u003C\/a\u003E at editor@coe.gatech.edu.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ed. note: This story appears in the first issue of Georgia Tech Engineers, the new magazine from the College of Engineering. To request a copy of the magazine, please email the editor at editor@coe.gatech.edu."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-07-08 13:28:34","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/content\/inside-magnus-egerstedts-mooc","title":"Inside Magnus Egerstedt\u0027s MOOC"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=30","title":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"url":"http:\/\/gritslab.gatech.edu\/home\/","title":"GRITS Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13507","name":"Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"11528","name":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELyndsey Lewis - College of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lyndsey.lewis@coe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}