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Patrick Martin, Ph.D.


Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

  • B.S., Physics and Applied Mathematics, Hampden-Sydney College, 2002
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland College Park, 2004
  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010

Courses

  • Applied Control
  • Engineering Physics: Electricity and Magnetism
  • Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
  • Robotics

Research Interests

  • Distributed Control
  • Multi-agent Systems
  • Robotics
  • Cyber-physical Systems
  • Hybrid Systems

Honors

  • Nominated for Best Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • President’s Fellowship Recipient, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Eta Kappa Nu, Inducted 2006
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Inducted 2001

Recent Publications

  • P. Twu, P. Martin, M. Egerstedt. Graph Process Specifications for Hybrid Networked Systems. Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 541-577, 2012.
  • P. Martin and M. Egerstedt. Hybrid Systems Tools for Compiling Controllers for Cyber-Physical Systems. Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 101-119, 2012.

Recent Presentations

  • P. Martin, J.P. de la Croix, and M. Egerstedt. Pancakes: A Software Framework for Distributed Robot and Sensor Network Applications. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Systems, November 2010.