Hartmut Surmann

Hartmut Surmann (* 1963 in Dülmen ) is a computer scientist, a doctorate in electrical engineering and professor of Autonomous Systems at the Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS ). His research interests include autonomous mobile robotics and computational intelligence. In 2009, he headed the international robotics team to support the fire department after the collapse of the historic archives in Cologne.

Biography

After graduating from the Clemens -Brentano -Gymnasium ( Dülmen ) Hartmut Surmann studied from 1984 to 1989 computer science at the University of Dortmund. He completed his studies with a thesis on the study of hardware fault tolerance of selected associative memory concepts based on neural network. Then, of, 1990 - 1994, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair for components of electrical engineering at Karl Goser, where he completed a doctorate on the automatic design of fuzzy systems using genetic algorithms and neural networks. In 1994, he was a postdoctoral fellow at that Society for Mathematics and Data Processing ( from 1996 GMD Research Center for Information Technology, from 2001 Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, from 2006 Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems ) to Saint Augustine. There he began with robots to deal in particular with autonomous mobile robots and to publish. In addition to his scientific work at the campus Birlinghoven he studied from 1995 - 1998 Organizational and Staff Development at the University of Dortmund. In 2009 he took over management of the job created teaching and research field Autonomous Systems at the Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen. Since 2010 he has been working with international partners in the EU-funded project on the development of autonomous, mobile ground and air robots that were used in 2012 after the devastating earthquake in northern Italy in Mirandola ..

Students by Hartmut Surmann with private Chair are Andreas Nüchter ( Jacobs University Bremen) and Stefan May ( University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg)

Awards

For his research Surmann received numerous awards, including the FUZZ-IEEE/IFES '95 robot intelligence award, the NC2001 best presentation award, the 2005 SSRR best paper award for his doctoral thesis and the award of the German AI Institute 1996. KURT3D His robot was 2004 vice-champion at RoboCup - Rescue in Lisbon.