CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Klaus Schilling
Julius-Maximilians-University, Germany

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Biography of the Conference Chair

Klaus Schilling is professor and chair for Robotics and Telematics in the Computer Science Department of the University of Würzburg. In parallel he is director of the research oriented company "Zentrum für Telematik".
Before returning to academia he worked in the space industry, as head of the group on "Mission and System Analyses". He was responsible for system studies for interplanetary spacecraft missions, including HUYGENS and ROSETTA. His research emphasis is on autonomous control and teleoperation aspects for interplanetary missions, addressing supervisory controls for spacecrafts, mobile robots, virtual laboratories in tele-education, and tele-servicing of industrial automation systems.
Prof. Schilling has been elected as chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Networked Robotics since 2007.
Since 2008 he serves as chairman on the IFAC technical committee on Telematics. His scientific contributions are documented in more than 200 papers on robotics/control engineering/telematics and 1 book on numerical methods for optimal controls.

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