USTUTT

The University of Stuttgart, established in 1829, represents with its more than 20,000 students, 5,000 employees (among them more than 3,000 scientists) one of the leading institutions for education and research in the south of Germany. Embedded in a world wide network, research is carried out in life sciences, energy management, biotechnology, process engineering, traffic and automotive engineering, materials science, technology for new materials, nano-technology, micro-electronics, mechanical engineering, product engineering, synthetic material technology, aerospace technology, high performance computing, computer science and engineering results assessment. Third party funded research has high priority at the University of Stuttgart. More than 1,600 scientists are working in national and international co-operative research projects. USTUTT will be involved in ANGELS through IPVS (Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems) was founded in 1989 and is one of the research institutes of the faculty of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

Key personnel for USTUTT

Prof., M.S. (Dipl.-Phys.) Paul Levi, has been a Professor for Informatics (Distributed AI, Computer Vision and massive parallel Algorithms) in the Institute for Parallel and Distributed High Performance Computers of the University of Stuttgart, Germany since 1992 and has also been a member of the management board of the Centre for Computer Science (FZI), Director of the Division “Mobility Management and Robotics” in Karlsruhe, Germany since 1996.. Currently his research focuses in the fields of robotics, knowledge-based interpretation of multiple image data, fusion of sensor data (laser, camera, radar), distributed planning for cooperative task achievements by several agents, development of autonomous systems (robots, cars), neuronal networks for robots and vehicles as well as in parallel programming, development of expert systems for CIM-environments (scheduling, maintenance, quality control), computer architecture for vision systems. He published about 230 papers in mostly refereed journals and 7 books.

Dr.rer.nat. Serge Kernbach (S. Kornienko) has been an assistant at University of Stuttgart (Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems) since 1998 and finished his PhD work in 2006. His research background is robotics and especially micro-robotic systems and robot swarms, image processing, intelligent distributed systems, and nonlinear dynamics and synergetics. He has published over 50 articles in international journals and conferences, he is a principal developer of the micro-robot platform “Jasmine”, supervisor of over 20 M.S. projects, and has over 10 years of lecturing experience in the fields of “Desktop Publishing Systems”, “Operational Systems and Networks”, “Image Processing and Understanding”, “Intelligent Distributed Systems” and “Data Structures and Algorithms”. Since 2004 he is a coordinator of the swarmrobot project (see www.swarmrobot.org) as well as project coordinator, task leader and partner in several past and running EU/national projects, e.g. REPLICATOR, SYMBRION, GOLEM, ISwarm , SFB467, “Multimedia in High Education”, etc., organizer of workshops “collective and swarm robotics”, and reviewer of several robotic journals. Since 2000 he has acquired more than 2 Mio€ in different research projects for IPVS.

References

• http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html

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