Academic record
- Diplom in Computer Science,
University of Bonn, 1982.
- Doctorate (Dr.rer.nat) in Computer Science, University of Bonn, 1986.
- Habilitation
in Computer Science, Hamburg University, 1995.
Professional career
- 1982-1986: Scientific Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Bonn
- 1986-2001: Research Scientist at GMD
(German National Research Center for Information Technology)
(GMD
in Wikipedia)
- 1993: Guest Researcher, International Computer Science Institute
(ICSI), Berkeley, CA
- 1993-1994: Substitute Professor (C4-Lehrstuhlvertreter),
Computer Science Faculty, Dortmund University
- 1996: Visiting Lecturer,
Computer Science Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- 1998-2004: External lecturer (Privatdozent),
University of Bonn, Computer Science Department
- 1999-2004: Head of Department
Robot Control Architectures (ARC), AIS
- 2001-2004 (merger between GMD and Fraunhofer Society): Research Scientist at
Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems
(AIS, now IAIS)
- Since 09/2004: Professor for Computer Science (Knowledge-Based Systems)
at the University of Osnabrück
- Since 10/2011: Head of Osnabrück branch, Robotics Innovation Center
(RIC),
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI),
Areas of scientific interest
Artificial Intelligence, knowledge-based systems, action planning,
plan-based robot control,
robot navigation and localization,
semantic mapping,
symbol grounding,
embedded knowledge-based systems.
Applications of these.
Publications
I have written or edited 9 books and published over 130 refereed or invited papers
in books, journals or major conferences.
A selection (complete starting Fall 2004)
can be found at this link.
Awards etc.
- Award for Excellence for Springer Handbook of Robotics (B. Siciliano, O. Khatib, eds.),
Chapter co-author (2008)
- 2nd place (team member), SICK AG Robot Day, indoor competition (2007)
- Nomination for Hans-Mühlenhoff-Preis for outstanding teaching, Univ. Osnabück (2007)
- Best Mobility Award, Best Autonomy Award (team member), Robocup German Open (2005)
- Best Paper Award (co-author), SSRR'05, Kobe, Japan (2005)
- Vice World Champion (team member), RoboCup Rescue, Lisbon (2004)
- ICSI Award of GMD for outstanding scientific research (1992)
- PhD grant by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1983/84)
Research projects
The current projects of the Knowledge-Based Systems working group are listed under this link.
- Current
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- Permanent/Ongoing
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- Past (Some)
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- Dean of the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Universität Osnabrück (2007-2009)
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Conference Co-Chair and local organization,
KI-2007, September 10-13, 2007, Osnabrück.
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Co-editor, Special Issue
Semantic Knowledge in Robotics of the J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2008
- Co-Organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar No. 06231 Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control, Schloss Dagstuhl, June 5-9, 2006
- Member of the Comité de
Pilotage (Steering Committee) of the Interdisciplinary National
French Program in Robotics Robotique et Entités
Artificielles (Robea).
- Co-organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar Plan-based Control of
Robotic
Agents, June 22-27, 2003, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
(See Proceedings
of the previous seminar in 2001.)
- Member of the Executive
Council of the International Conference on Automated Planning and
Scheduling (ICAPS) (2002-2008).
- Co-chair 6th Intl. Conf. on Artificial
Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems (AIPS2002), April
25-27, 2002, Toulouse (France)
- Electronic
Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), member of the
editorial committee for the area Planning and
Scheduling.
- Member of the problem jury for the
German National Contest in Informatics (Bundeswettbewerb
Informatik).
- speaker of the SIG Planen
und Konfigurieren
of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik,
1989-1993
- Past involvements in conference organization are at this link.
Society memberships
Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI),
Association of the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (GK)
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