The Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) is a new section of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg. The research goal of this lab are methods and techniques which allow autonomous mobile robots to operate reliably in their environments. This includes techniques for sensor interpretation and state estimation as well as planning and interaction. The head of the AIS-Lab, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Freiburg. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 1991 where was a research assistant until 1999. His research focuses on autonomous mobile robots. Members of the lab have worked extensively in mobile robot navigation and have published papers in outstanding journals of the field. Among them are AI Journal, Journal of Machine Learning, Journal on Robotics and Automation, Journal of AI Research and Journal of Intelligent Robots. Moreover, several papers have been presented at highly selective conferences such as the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence, the North American Conference of Artificial Intelligence, the International Conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the International Conference of Robotics and Automation and the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. The head of the lab, Professor Burgard, has received several outstanding paper awards at international conferences: North American Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '98), 22nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI '98) (Springer Price), and International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '98). The lab cooperates with leading Institutions in the field. Among them are the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA and SRI, Stanford, CA.

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Wolfram Burgard is an Associate Professor for autonomous intelligent systems at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Freiburg. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 1991 where was a research assistant until 1999. His research focuses on autonomous mobile robots and applications of artificial intelligence. For his work on autonomous mobile robots he received several outstanding paper awards at international conferences. He was the program chair of the 3rd European Workshop of Advanced Mobile Robots (EUROBOT '99) and was the organizer of the 23rd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI '99). Wolfram Burgard contributed to the VIRGO TMR Network on vision-based robot navigation.