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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 24, 2011
Jackie Nemeth
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
404-894-2906
Summary Sentence:
ECE Ph.D. student Greg Droge has been awarded the SMART scholarship, given by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Full Summary:
ECE Ph.D. student Greg Droge has been awarded the SMART scholarship, given by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Greg DrogeECE Ph.D. student Greg Droge has been awarded the SMART scholarship, given by the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Droge was among 300 students chosen for this honor out of a pool of almost 4,000 applicants.
A Ph.D. student in the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab, Mr. Droge is advised by Magnus Egerstedt. Mr. Droge is working on the problem of producing complex motions using libraries of simple controllers. The particular application on which he is focusing is snake robotics and how to produce and combine snake "gaits" to make the snake navigate cluttered environments. Both he and Dr. Egerstedt are based in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
