Heinz Wörn

Heinz Wörn was born in 1948 and studied electronic engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. His Ph.D. degree thesis was about multiprocessor control systems. He serves as an Expert on robotics and automation with 18 years of industrial experience. Since 1967, he has been working as a Full Professor of complex systems for automation and robots at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His research interests include autonomous sensor-based robots for production, humanoid robots, medical robots, microrobots, swarm robots, motion planning, robot calibration, new methods for intuitive programming of robots, sensor-based human robot cooperation, tactile artificial skin, and cooperation and self-organization in robot teams.

Biography Updated on 23 February 2011

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