THOMAS CHRISTALLER
born in 1949 in Bonn, Germany
1976

diploma (M.Sc.) in Mathematics at the University ofBonn

1976 - 1982

Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the University ofBielefeld

1982-1984

Language Faculty at the University of Hamburg

1986

Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Hamburg
different positions at the computer science research
campus at Schloss Birlinghoven

1989

head of the Artificial Intelligence department at research
institute FIT’s board of directors in 1989.

1998 – 2007 Executive Director of the research institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems(AIS) (today known as Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis andInformation Systems IAIS).
since 2007

member of IAIS’s board of directors; professor on Artificial Intelligence at theUniversity of Bielefeld

Activities:
1998 – 2004 member of the German Wissenschaftsrat (Science Board)since 1998

support of the RoboCup; speaker of the DFG (German Research Foundation)
RoboCup Programme

Member of the Association on Computing Machinery (ACM), German Society for Computer
Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)), Society of German Engineers (VDI), American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and German Society on Cognitive
Sciences (Kognitionswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft).

MINORU ASADA
born in 1953
1977B.E. in control engineering at Osaka University

1979

M.E. in control engineering at Osaka University

1982

Ph.D. in control engineering at Osaka University

1982 to 1988 Research Associate of Control Engineering, OsakaUniversity
1986 - 1987
April 1989

visiting researcher at the Center for Automation
Research, University of Maryland
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering for
Computer-Controlled Machinery, Osaka University

April 1995

Professor of Mechanical Engineering for Computer-Controlled Machinery,Osaka University

April 1997

Professor of the department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University

Activities:
general chair of IEEE/RSJ 1996 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS96).
general chair of The Fourth International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL05)
IEEE Fellow since 2005; research director for JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence
Project since September 2005.
Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,Japanese Government as a Person of Distinguished Services to Enlightening People onScience and Technology (2001).
involved in RoboCup activities since early 1990; president of the International RoboCup
Federation since 2002

FRANK KIRCHNER
born in 1963
1989 - 1994

Computer Science and Neurobiology at the Universityof Bonn1994

Senior Scientist (focussing on cognitive and bioinspired robotics) at the Gesellschaft für Mathematik
und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) in Sankt Augustin (partof Fraunhofer Institute since 1999)

1998

Senior Scientist at the Department for ElectricalEngineering at Northeastern University in Boston, MA,USA; builded up a branch of the Fraunhofer Institute forAutonomous Intelligent Systems (FHG-AIS)

1999

Ph.D in Computer Science at the University of Bonn
“Tenure Track Assistant Professor” at the Northeastern University in Boston;in charge of a series of national German and US American projects focussing
on autonomous intelligent robots in real-world applications

since 2002

Professor at the University of Bremen, Department for Mathematics andComputer Science; builded up the Robotics Lab

since 2005

Director of the Robotics Laboratory and speaker of the Bremen location of theGerman Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI); implemented the researcharea for ‘autonomous intelligent robots’

Activities:
Member of the Programme Committee of KI 2006, the Programme Committee of IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2006), the ProgrammeCommittee of GI Annual Meeting 2007, the Organizing Committee of the 1st International
Conference on Dynamics in Logistics in Bremen (2007), the Organizing Committee of IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2007
Founding Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on SpaceRobotics
Member of GMT Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik, Hamburg, Germany.
2nd Place in RoboCup-Rescue, Dutch Open 2006, 3rd Place in RoboCup-Rescue, German
Open 2005, Multiple Awards for Scorpion Robot at AMAM 2005, NASA Robot of the Monthfor Scorpion Robot in 2002

TAKANORI SHIBATA
Born in 1967
1989

B.S. in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Nagoya
University

1991

M.S. in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Nagoya
University

1992

Ph.D. in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Nagoya
University

1993 - 1998

research scientist at Mechanical Engineering Lab., AIST1995 – 1997 postdoctoral associate at the Artificial Intelligence Lab., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)1996

visiting researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Lab., University of Zurich

1998

visiting researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Lab., MIT1998 – 2001 senior research scientist at Mechanical Engineering Lab., AIST
since 2001

senior research scientist at Intelligent Systems Research Institute, AIST
research scientist for a project of “interaction and intelligence,” SORST, Japan
Science and Technology Agency (JST)Activities:
member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and other scientificand technical societies
inventor of the seal robot named Paro (World’s Most Therapeutic Robot by Guinness World
Records in 2002)“Robot of the Year” award from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan in 2006
“The Outstanding Young Person (TOYP) of the world” from Junior Chamber International in2004
Japanese Prime Minister’s Award in 2003

MARTIN HÄGELE
Born in 19621989

diploma in Engineering at the University of Stuttgart,
Germany, and Master of Science at the GeorgeWashington University in Washington, D.C.

1993

Head of Robotics System Department at theFraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineeringand Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart

since 2001

member of the Fraunhofer IPA BoardActivities:
pioneering German study on the market potentials and challenges of service robots (1993)
Engelberger Robotics Award, the highest honour in robotics (2007)
member of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the European robotics research
network (EURON) and the European Robotics Association (EUnited Robotics)

OSAMU MATSUMOTO
Born January 12th, 1964 in Osaka, Japan1987

B.E. in mechanical engineering at Waseda
University, Japan1989

M.E. in mechanical engineering at Waseda University

1998

Ph.D. mechanical engineering at Waseda University

1989 - 1996

Researcher in Mechanism Division, Robotics
Department, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory(MEL), Ministry of International Trade an Industry(MITI)

1996-2000

Senior Researcher in Mechanism Division, Robotics Department, MechanicalEngineering Laboratory (MEL), MITI

1999

Guest Researcher at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany

2001

Senior Research Scientist in Human-Friendly System Research Group,Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienceand Technology (AIST)

2002

Subsection Chief, Industrial Machinery Division, Manufacturing Industries
Bureau, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

2003

Senior Research Scientist in Field System Research Group, Intelligent
Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology (AIST)

since 2004

Senior Research Scientist in Safety Intelligence Research Group, Intelligent
Systems Institute, AIST

since 2007

Guest Professor of Shibaura Institute of Technology

ARNO RUCKELSHAUSEN
Born 13th October 1957 in Burg-Gemuenden / Germany
1983

Diploma degree in physics, University of Gießen

1983 – 1987 Assistant researcher at the Universities of Gießen andHeidelberg (cooperation with Argonne Nat.Lab/Chicago)
1987

Ph.D. in experimental physics at the University of Gießen

1987 - 1991

Engineer at Philips Semiconductors (Hamburg) in thedevelopment and production of CCD image sensors andintegrated circuits

since 1991

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at the University of Applied Sciences
Osnabrück, Department

Activities:
Evaluation of research projects for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF), the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (BMWA) and the German
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV)
Agritechnica Innovations Commission of the German Agricultural Association (DLG)“Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Intelligent Sensor Systems ISYS” (since 1997) and“COALA - Competence Center in Applied Agricultural Engineering" (since 2007) at theUniversity of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck
Organizer of the International Field Robot Event

HAJIME AOYAMABorn December 17th, 1954
1979

B.A. at the Department of Precision engineering,Yamanashi University1999Ph.D of engineering, Utsunomiya University

1999

joined Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd, developped the RoughTerrain Craine, Large automatic mobile vehicle withmulti axis, and the Cleaning Robot

Now, as a General Manager of CLEAN ROBOT DEPARTMENT,develop Cleaning Robot，Transfer Robot，and several
other robots
since 2008

lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at Utsunomiya University as a Specially
Appointed Professor

Member of the Robotics Society of Japan and the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

ANDREAS BLEY
born September 30th, 1978 in Berlin
2003

Diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management(IEM), specialisation in electrical engineering andautomation at the Ilmenau University of Technology.

2007

Ph.D at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg, School of Business and Economics,
International Economics incl. Theory and Politics ofEuropean Integration

2000

Managing Director of MetraLabs GbR

Since 2001

Managing Director of MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und Systeme,
IlmenauJUSTUS HORTIG
Born October 6th, 1970 in Heidelberg, Germany
1999

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical
University of Darmstadt

since 1999

Scientific Engineer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory
Operation and Automation (IFF)

Major projects:
2001 – 2004 Automated histological screening of brain stroke effects
on live tissue Projectmanagement Software
2003 – 2004 Innonet Cooperative Project Fahrlos – AGV Controller Software Open Source
Projectmanagement IFF
2005 – 2006 Cleaning robot for the glass roof of Berlin Central Station Project Management
2006 –Management Façade Cleaning Robots