Rolf Dieter Schraft
Rolf Dieter Schraft (born February 2, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German robotics professor and university professor.
Life
Rolf Dieter Schraft was born in Stuttgart in 1942. He studied mechanical engineering and production engineering at the University of Stuttgart. In 1969 he became a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) headed by Carl Martin Dolezalek . Two years later, Hans-Jürgen Warnecke took over the management of the institute and Schraft became head of the handling systems division. In 1976 he received his doctorate on the subject of " Systematic selection and design of programmable handling devices ".
Rolf Dieter Schraft has made a name for himself throughout Germany in the establishment and increasing use of industrial robots in automation since the beginning of this development in the 1970s. In 1977 Schraft was given a teaching position at the University of Stuttgart, and in 1993 he became head of the institute.
His successor at the IPA was Alexander Verl in 2007 .
Awards
- ASEA Robotics Award, 1986
- JIRA Award, 1990
- Joseph F. Engelberger Award, 1992
Publications (selection)
- Systematic selection and design of programmable handling devices , Krausskopf, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-7830-0115-3 ( at the same time dissertation at the University of Stuttgart , department of production engineering, 1976).
- with Hans-Jürgen Warnecke as publisher: Industrial robots: Handbook for Industry and Science , Springer, 1990, ISBN 3-54-050934-8 .
- Automation of production: success factors and procedures in practice , with Alexander Verl and Ralf Kaun, Springer, 1998
- with Martin Hägele, Kai Wegener u. a. als (Ed.): Service - Robots - Visions . Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-22840-3 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Rolf Dieter Schraft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interim assessment of a robotics pioneer , by Jörg Walz, Science Information Service
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schraft, Rolf Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German robotics and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |