Background
Burgard, Wolfram was born on February 8, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Son of Giesbert and Sophia Burgard.
university professor computer scientist
Burgard, Wolfram was born on February 8, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Son of Giesbert and Sophia Burgard.
Wolfram Burgard received his Diploma degree from University of Dortmund in 1987 and his Doctorate from the in 1991. His thesis advisor was Armin B. Cremers.
He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. He is known for his substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem as well as diverse other contributions to robotics. Education In 1991 he became a research assistant at the University of Bonn, where he led the laboratory for Autonomous Mobile Systems.
He was head of the research group which installed the mobile robot Rhino as the first interactive museum tour-guide robot in the Deutsches Museum Bonn, Germany in 1997.
In 1998, he and his colleagues deployed the mobile robot Minerva in the National Museum of American History in Washington District of Columbia. In 1999, Wolfram Burgard became Professor for Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Research This includes Markov localization, a probabilistic approach to mobile localization which can robustly track the position of a mobile robot, estimate its global position when it starts without any prior knowledge about it, and can even recover from localization failures.
In 1999, Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox, Sebastian Thrun, and Wolfram Burgard developed Monte Carlo localization, a probabilistic approach to mobile robot localization that is based on particle filters. Wolfram Burgard and his group has also made substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem, which is to determine the map of the environment and the position of the robot at the same time.
Wolfram Burgard together with his long-term collaborators Dieter Fox and Sebastian Thrun is a co-author of the book Probabilistic Robotics.
He also is a co-author of the book Principles of Robot Motion - Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations, together with Howie Choset, Kevin M. Lynch, Seth A. Hutchinson, George Kantor, Lydia East. Kavraki and Sebastian Thrun. Wolfram Burgard has the 2009 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious German research prize. He also became a distinguished lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Robotics and Automation Society.
In 2008, Wolfram Burgard became a fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.
In 2009, Wolfram Burgard became fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. In 2010, he received an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council.
Students Wolfram Burgard supervised several Doctor of Philosophy students in his lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, namely Maren Bennewitz (2004), Dirk Haehnel (2005), Cyrill Stachniss (2006), Rudolph Triebel (2007), Óscar Martínez Mozos (2008), Patrick Pfaff (2008), and Christian Plagemann (2008), Jürgen Sturm (2011), Daniel Meyer-Delius Di Vasto (2011), Slawomir Grzonka (2011), Thilo Grundmann (2012), Kai Wurm (2012), Axel Rottmann (2012), Barbara Frank (2013), Rainer Kümmerle (2013), Bastian Steder (2013), Jörg Müller (2013), Dominik Joho (2013), Boris Lau (2013), Maximilian Beinhofer (2014). A large fraction of his publications are available at Google Scholar.
Fellow: American Association Advancement Artificial Intelligence.