Roland Siegwart
Roland Yves Siegwart (born May 2, 1959 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss robotics scientist and university professor.
Life
Roland Siegwart was born in Lausanne in 1959 and grew up in the canton of Schwyz . He studied mechanical engineering at the ETH Zurich and received his doctorate in 1989 with distinction from Gerhard Schweitzer with the dissertation Electro-magnetically Suspended Milling Spindle with Active Digital Control . He is a member of the board of directors of several companies, including the NZZ media group since 2016 .
Research and Teaching
Roland Siegwart is head of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) at ETH Zurich. His research interests focus on the design of autonomous mobile robots including localization , map creation (see SLAM ), planning in dynamic environments, human-robot interaction, locomotion concepts in rough terrain, mobile microrobots, land robots in space travel ( rover ), autonomous Motor vehicles and flying robots . Siegwart is the founder and co-founder of several high-tech start-ups, such as B. Shockfish Communication Ltd. (1999), BlueBotics Ltd. (2001) and ALSTOM Inspection Robotics Ltd. (2006).
Siegwart is co-author of the book Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots .
Publications
- Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots , The MIT Press; second edition, 2011; together with Illah Reza Nourbakhsh and Davide Scaramuzza.
Web links
- Roland Siegwart at the ASL
- Literature by and about Roland Siegwart in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Fischer: Support for the NZZ course. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 16, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegwart, Roland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siegwart, Roland Yves (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss robotics and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |