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Hartmut Surmann

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Hartmut Surmann, born in 1963 in Dülmen, West Germany, is a roboticist and Professor for Autonomous Systems at the Applied University of Gelsenkirchen and a researcher at the Fraunhofer Society's Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics and computational intelligence. He received several awards, among them the FUZZ-IEEE/IFES'95 robot intelligence award, the NC2001 best presentation award, the SSRR 2005 best paper award and the PhD award for his thesis from the German AI institutes in 1996. His robot KURT3D won second place in the RoboCup rescue robot league at the world championship in Lisbon in 2004, and he led the international rescue robotic team during the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne in March 2009. He received his diploma in computer science in 1989 and his PhD in electrical engineering in 1995, both from the University of Dortmund.

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Birth Year
1963 1
Notable Work
KURT3D rescue robot (second place at the 2004 RoboCup rescue league) 1
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    Hartmut Surmann (born 1963 in Dülmen
  • Lead, KURT3D
    His robot KURT3D won the second place in the RoboCup rescue robot league at the world championship in Lisbon in 2004.
  • In Field: Robotics, Lead, autonomous mobile robotics
    His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics
  • In Group: Cyber-Physical Systems and Robotics, Lead, rescue robots
    His robot KURT3D won the second place in the RoboCup rescue robot league at the world championship in Lisbon in 2004.
  • Affiliated With: Fraunhofer Society, Affiliation, fraunhofer-society
    Researcher at the Fraunhofer Society's Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS)
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