Ulrich Rembold

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Ulrich Rembold (born May 1, 1929 in Danzig ; † September 1, 2002 in Karlsbad near Karlsruhe) was a German engineer and information scientist .

Life

Ulrich Rembold is the son of Viktor Rembold , a pioneer of the hydrogen combustion engine and professor at the Technical University of Danzig .

Rembold worked for many years in the USA as a pioneer of computer-integrated manufacturing ( CIM ) after the Second World War . In 1975 he was appointed to the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and built up the Institute for Process Computing and Robotics (IPR) there until his retirement in 1997.

The focus of his research work was the fully automated factory consisting of machines, interlinking, handling, assembly using program-controlled devices, machines and robots. From around 1990 he was the driving force behind computer and robot-assisted surgery in Germany. Ulrich Rembold started the first Collaborative Research Center for intelligent assembly robots (SFB 314 "Artificial Intelligence") in 1984 and the first SFB 441 for "Robot-assisted surgery" in 1995. He was the spokesman for both SFBs. Rüdiger Dillmann was an associate professor at his institute for many years.

Ulrich Rembold was also one of the founding directors of the Research Center for Computer Science Karlsruhe (FZI). Paul Levi was his head of department there for several years.

Ulrich Rembold has received the award for the best textbook from Addison-Wesley-Verlag several times. With the book Introduction to Computer Science for Engineers I and II , Ulrich Rembold wrote the best-selling book in computer science for many years, even though he had studied mechanical engineering himself.

Gerhard Hirzinger was appointed as his successor in 1992 , but after negotiations with the DLR he refused and became honorary professor (Faculty of Computer Science) at the Technical University of Munich. In 1997, Heinz Wörn succeeded Ulrich Rembold.

Rembold had a very large international network in the USA, France, England, Japan and the former Soviet Union.

Guest scholars from abroad were constantly working at Rembold's Institute, which was a separate building on the campus of the University of Karlsruhe. The working atmosphere was characterized by great creativity and freedom, which led to many former students embarking on a career in science and now working as university lecturers themselves:

  • Rüdiger Dillmann, Karlsruhe ⇒ Karsten Berns, Kaiserslautern
  • Paul Levi, Stuttgart
  • Tim Christian Lüth , Munich ⇒ Andreas Hein, Oldenburg, Stefan Weber, Bern
  • Sergej Fatikow, Oldenburg
  • Dominik Henrich , Bayreuth
  • Jianwei Zhang, Hamburg-Harburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Springer - Obituary Ulrich Rembold , accessed on February 5, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Rembold, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and information scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2002
Place of death Karlsbad near Karlsruhe