1. Wolfram Burgard is a full professor at the University of Technology Nuremberg where he heads the Laboratory for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
13 Facts About Wolfram Burgard
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Wolfram Burgard is known for his substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping problem as well as diverse other contributions to robotics.
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Wolfram Burgard received his Diploma degree from University of Dortmund in 1987 and his Doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1991.
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Wolfram Burgard was head of the research group that installed the mobile robot Rhino as the first interactive museum tour-guide robot in the Deutsches Museum Bonn, Germany in 1997.
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In 1999, Wolfram Burgard became Professor for Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg.
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Together with his colleagues, Wolfram Burgard developed numerous probabilistic approaches to mobile robot navigation.
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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.
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Wolfram Burgard together with his long-term collaborators Dieter Fox and Sebastian Thrun is a co-author of the book Probabilistic Robotics.
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Wolfram Burgard 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 E Kavraki and Sebastian Thrun.
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Wolfram Burgard has the 2009 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious German research prize.
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Wolfram Burgard has furthermore received seven best paper awards from outstanding conferences.
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In 2008, Wolfram Burgard became a fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.
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In 2009, Wolfram Burgard became a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.