Wolfram Burgard

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Wolfram Burgard

Wolfram Burgard (born February 8, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German scientist of computer science and robotics . He is a professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he heads the working group for autonomous intelligent systems at the Institute for Computer Science. He is known for his contributions to autonomous robotics, especially the SLAM problem .

Burgard received his doctorate in 1991 under Armin Cremers at the University of Bonn (Goal-Directed Forward Chaining for Logic Programs). From 1996 to 1999 he headed the research laboratory for autonomous mobile systems at the University of Bonn. In 1997 they used the first interactive mobile museum guide Rhino in the Deutsches Museum in Munich (followed by Minerva in the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington DC 1998). He has been a professor in Freiburg since 1999.

Among other things, he developed systems for autonomous driving (for example in 2008 for navigation in the complex environment of a parking garage). In 2012, Burgard was a founding member of the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF), which is dedicated to virtual test environments and the dissemination of the Robot Operating System (ROS).

In March 2009, Burgard was awarded the Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation. He has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2012 . In 2014 he was elected to the Leopoldina . He is a fellow of the AAAI . In 2010 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He has been President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society since 2019 . He was a member of the jury of the German KI Prize 2019 of the business magazine Bilanz from Axel Springer SE .

literature

  • Sebastian Thrun , Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox : Probabilistic Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) . MIT Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-262-20162-9 .
  • Howie M. Choset, Seth Hutchinson, Kevin M. Lynch, George Kantor, Wolfram Burgard, Lydia E. Kavraki, Sebastian Thrun : Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementation (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2005, ISBN 978-0-262-03327-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Burgard in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Hans-Arthur Marsiske: Free robotics. Professor Wolfram Burgard on the open source initiative “Robot Operating System”. In: c't. Magazine for computers and technology. Heise-Verlag, December 15, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ German Research Foundation: Leibniz Prizes 2009: Eleven new scouts for science. December 4, 2008, archived from the original on February 10, 2009 ; Retrieved December 16, 2008 .
  4. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Wolfram Burgard. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 19, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Appointment of RAS President 2019-2020
  7. ^ The jury of the German AI Prize. Welt, August 2, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Burgard, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen , Germany