Egerstedt Named 2025 Robotics Outstanding Investigator
July 21, 2025 - UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering Dean Magnus Egerstedt has received the 2025 Robotics Outstanding Investigator Award from the International Federation of Automation Control (IFAC) for his sustained outstanding research contributions to robotics.
The award cited Egerstedt’s "leadership in robotics research and education with particular focus on control and coordination of multirobot systems,” and it was presented at the joint IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems and Robotics, July 15-18, in Paris, France.
A professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Egerstedt’s research centers on control theory and robotics. He has made innovations in remote environmental monitoring and precision agriculture and has worked extensively on the control and coordination of complex networks, such as multirobot systems, mobile sensor networks and cyberphysical systems. Before coming to UCI, Egerstedt led the creation of the Robotarium, a remotely accessible swarm robotics lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, used by thousands of researchers around the world.
He also helped develop the SlothBot and RaccoonBot, hyper-energy-efficient environmental monitoring robots, the latter which was recently installed at Crystal Cove State Park and was developed at the UCI Robot Ecology Lab. The UCI lab focuses on sending robots out to dwell in nature to monitor the environment.
Egerstedt is a fellow of the IFAC and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
“I am incredibly honored by this award,” said Egerstedt. “But, as research is really a team sport, this award is a testament to how fortunate I have been in my career to have been surrounded by talented and creative students and collaborators.”
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