Hartmut Surmann
Encyclopedia
Hartmut Surmann is a Roboticist
, Professor for Autonomous Systems at Applied University of Gelsenkirchen and Researcher at the Fraunhofer
Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssystem (IAIS). His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics and
computational intelligence. He received several awards, e.g., the FUZZ-IEEE/IFES'95 robot intelligence award, NC2001 best presentation award,
SSRR 2005 best paper award and the Ph.D. award for his thesis from the German AI institutes in 1996.
His robot KURT3D won the second place in the RoboCup
rescue robot league at the world championship in Lisbon in 2004. He leads the international
rescue robotic team during collapse of the historical archive of the city of cologne in march 2009.
and his PhD in Electrical Engineering
from the
University of Dortmund, Germany
, in 1989 and 1995, respectively.
Roboticist
A roboticist designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer engineering...
, Professor for Autonomous Systems at Applied University of Gelsenkirchen and Researcher at the Fraunhofer
Fraunhofer
Fraunhofer, , may refer to:*Joseph von Fraunhofer , German physicist*Fraunhofer , a lunar crater*Fraunhofer Society , a large German research organization with 59 institutes throughout Germany...
Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssystem (IAIS). His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics and
computational intelligence. He received several awards, e.g., the FUZZ-IEEE/IFES'95 robot intelligence award, NC2001 best presentation award,
SSRR 2005 best paper award and the Ph.D. award for his thesis from the German AI institutes in 1996.
His robot KURT3D won the second place in the RoboCup
RoboCup
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1997. The aim is to develop autonomous soccer robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence...
rescue robot league at the world championship in Lisbon in 2004. He leads the international
rescue robotic team during collapse of the historical archive of the city of cologne in march 2009.
Education
Surmann received his diploma in Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and his PhD in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
from the
University of Dortmund, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, in 1989 and 1995, respectively.