Hartmut Surmann (born 1963 in
Dülmen,
West Germany) is a
Roboticist, Professor for Autonomous Systems at Applied University of Gelsenkirchen and Researcher at the
Fraunhofer Society's 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 is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1996 by a group of university professors (including Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, and Minoru Asada). The aim of the competition is to promote robotics and AI research by offer ...
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.
Biography
Education
Surmann received his diploma in
Computer Science and his PhD in
Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
from the
University of Dortmund,
Germany, in 1989 and 1995, respectively.
External links
Hartmut Surmann's IAIS homepage
Hartmut Surmann's homepage
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1963 births
Living people
German roboticists
German computer scientists
People from Coesfeld