Hartmut Surmann

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name = Hartmut Surmann


caption = Hartmut Surmann at a workshop at Fraunhofer Campus Birlinghoven (Sankt Augustin, August 2002).
birth_date = 1963
birth_place = Dülmen, Germany
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field = Robotics and Computational Intelligence
work_institution = Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin
alma_mater = University of Dortmund

doctoral_advisor = Karl Goser
Manfred Glesner

Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Surmann (born 1963 in Dülmen, Germany) is a Senior Researcher and Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssystem (IAIS). His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics andcomputational 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.

Biography

Education

Surmann received his diploma in Computer Science and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1989 and 1995, respectively.

External links

* [http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/surmann.html Hartmut Surmann's IAIS homepage] .
* [http://www.hartmut-surmann.de/ Hartmut Surmann's homepage] .