Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl. Inform. Hartmut Surmann

Fraunhofer IAIS
Project: VolksBot
Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
google-maps: latitude: 50 degree north, 44 min., 58 Sec.
longitude: 7 degree east, 12 min., 08 Sec.

Phone: +49 (0) 2241 / 14-25 18
Fax: +49 (0) 2241 / 144- 25 18
Email:
Internet: www.iais.fraunhofer.de

Highlights

• Talk at the hannover fair 2009
• Talk at the Robotics School on Rescue Robotics (IURS-2008)
• 3D laser scanner for mobile robots; 3DLS
• Volksbot: A flexible and modular mobile robot construction kit for professionals and education
• Best paper Award at the SSRR 2005
• Best presentation at the Fahrerlose Transportsysteme (FTS) und mobile Roboter, Chancen, Technologie, Wirtschaftlichkeit
• Best Autonomy Award at the German Open 2005, Real Rescue Robot
• Best Mobility Award at the German Open 2005, Real Rescue Robots
• Viceworld champion at the RoboCup Rescue 2004 in Lisboa/Portugal (Real Robot League) Press note (german)
• KURT3D: Fastest autonomous mobile indoor robot of the world (4.0 m/s) Press note (german)
• 6D-SLAM: Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping in x,y,z and the 3 angles
The basic paper (An autonomous mobile robot with a 3D laser range finder for 3D exploration and digitalization of indoor environments), is currently under the top four at Elsevier.

Academic record

• Diploma in Computer Science, University of Dortmund, 1989.
• Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering, University of Dortmund, 1995.
• Professor Autonomous Systems, Applied University of Gelsenkirchen, 2009.
• A CV can be found here.

Professional career

• 1990-1994: Scientific Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Dortmund
• 1994-1997: Postdoc at GMD (German National Research Center for Information Technology)
• 1997-2001: Senior Researcher at GMD (German National Research Center for Information Technology)
• 2001-2006 Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS)
• since 2006 Fraunhofer Institute Intelligent Analyse- und Informationssystem (IAIS)
• since 2009 Aplied University of Gelsenkirchen and Fraunhofer Institute Intelligent Analyse- und Informationssystem (IAIS)

Publications

I have written and published appr. 100 refereed or invited papers in books, journals or cofenrences. A selection can be found here.

Videos

Some robot videos can be found at youtube (hsurmann and volksbot).

Mentoring / Coaching

A selection of my mentoring and coaching activities can be found here. 

Research projects

• MEF Tele-Exploration: Sichere Teleoperation und Tele-Exploration mulit-sensorgestützter mobiler Roboter zur Ãœberwachung, Gebäudeinspektion und Erkundung akuter Gefahren
• MACS (Multi-sensory Autonomous Cognitive Systems Interacting with Dynamic Environments for Perceiving and Learning Affordances)
• 6D-SLAM automatic accquisation of precise 3D geometrical environment data with an autonomous mobile robot
• Team Leader of the real rescue robot team Deutschland1
• RoboCup Rescue (Vice world champion at the RoboCup Rescue 2004 in Lisboa/Portugal, Real Robot League)
• Local chair of the real rescue League at the German Open 2005
• KURT3D: The fastest indoor robot platform of the world for research and applications
• SEF (software for a multi channel laser scanner)
• 3D Laser Scanner: A cheap and practical sensor (which you can even buy!) for acquiring precise 3D geometrical environment data
• UCT (digital communication via GSM, TETRA, GPRS)
• MAKRO: Multi-segmented, autonomous sewer robot platform (1997-2000)
• ARIADNE, control of a team of service robots
• MORIA, intelligent control of a service robot with fuzzy logic

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