Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard Institut für Informatik Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee, Geb. 079 D-79110 Freiburg Germany   Building 79, Room 1014 Phone: +49 (761) 203-8026/8006 Mobile: +49 171 54 57 59 5 Fax: +49 (761) 203-8007 Email: burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de

 
 
I am a professor for computer science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. My areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots.  
My research mainly focuses on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control. Over the past years my group and I have developed a series of innovative probabilistic techniques for robot navigation and control. They cover different aspects such as localization, map-building, path-planning and exploration. In my previous position from 1996 to 1999 at the University of Bonn I was head of the research lab for Autonomous Mobile Systems. In 1997 we deployed Rhino as the first interactive mobile tour-guide robot in the Deutsches Museum Bonn in Germany (see corresponding overview article). During its deployment period of six days Rhino was extremely successful and guided thousands of visitors through the crowded museum. In 1998 my group and I went to Washington, DC, to install the mobile robot Minerva for a period of thirteen days in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. I have published over hundred papers and articles in robotic conferences and journals. In 2005, I published two books. Whereas the first one, entitled Principles of Robot Motion - Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations, is about sensor-based planning, stochastic planning, localization, mapping, and motion planning, the second one, entitled Probabilistic Robotics, covers robot perception and control in the face of uncertainty.  
 
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