{"599933":{"#nid":"599933","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Coogan Receives IEEE Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESam Coogan received the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Award at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, which took place December 12-15, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. He is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan\u0026rsquo;s coauthors on the paper are Ebru Aydin Gol (Middle East Technical University), Murat Arcak (University of California, Berkeley), and Calin Belta (Boston University).\u0026nbsp;Entitled \u0026ldquo;Traffic network control from temporal logic specifications,\u0026rdquo; this paper proposes an approach for controlling a traffic network of signalized intersections to accomplish complex control objectives specified in a formal language known as temporal logic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETemporal logic allows for specifying precisely and unambiguously the desired behavior of the network and can accommodate goals such as congestion avoidance and fair service of all queues in the network. The paper further identifies and exploits structural properties particular to the dynamics of traffic flow that allow for efficient computation of feedback controllers that can be formally shown to satisfy these objectives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Sam Coogan received the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Award at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, which took place December 12-15, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan received the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, which took place December 12-15, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. "}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2017-12-14 20:34:18","changed_gmt":"2017-12-14 20:34:18","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594985":{"id":"594985","type":"image","title":"Sam Coogan","body":null,"created":"1503597637","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 18:00:37","changed":"1503597637","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 18:00:37","alt":"photograph of Sam Coogan","file":{"fid":"226753","name":"Sam Coogan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":159508,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg?itok=ewEZ97O9"}}},"media_ids":["594985"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/samuel-coogan","title":"Sam Coogan"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6509490","title":"IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems"},{"url":"http:\/\/cdc2017.ieeecss.org","title":"56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171007","name":"Sam Coogan"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"176538","name":"IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems"},{"id":"176539","name":"56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control"},{"id":"176540","name":"traffic network control"},{"id":"176541","name":"temporal logic"},{"id":"176542","name":"traffic flow"}],"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\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}