Sensors for robots, including vision systems and imaging tactile sensors
System architecture and methods for behavior-based robots and real-time vision
Mobile robots, learning robots, calibration-free robots
Humanoid personal assistant robots
Long-term dependability of complex robotic systems
Bionics-based robot intelligence
Biographical Data
1956 - 1964
Universities of Göttingen, Munich, Hamburg and Kiel; studies of physics, mathematics, astrophysics and oceonography
1961 - 1965
University of Kiel, Germany; research in applied physics
1964
Doctor of Sciences degree, in physics, mathematics and oceanography (University of Kiel, Germany)
1965 - 1969
University of Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics; research in physical oceanography
1969 - 1975
Project manager with Krupp, a major German industrial corporation; management of research and development projects in ocean engineering and computer design
Since 1975
Professor and head of the Institute of Measurement Science, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Bundeswehr University Munich
Since 2003
Head of the Intelligent Robots Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Bundeswehr University Munich
Publications
Please see list of publications by the Intelligent Robots Laboratory .
Additional Information
Honorary Professor of the Changsha Institute of Technology (China; since 1993)
Nakamura Prize for contributions to the advancement of the technology of intelligent robots and systems over a decade (1997)
IAPR/MVA Prize for the most influential paper of the past decade (1998)
General chairman of the IEEE/RSJ/GI International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 1994, IROS '94
Member, Administrative Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1993-1998)
Member, IROS Advisory Council
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR)
