Tamim Asfour

Member

Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Germany

Address

Karlsruhe, Germany

Biography

Tamim Asfour is senior research scientist and leader of the Humanoid Research Group at Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab, Institute for Anthropomatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received his diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe. In 2003 he was awarded with the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) price for his outstanding Ph.D. thesis on sensorimotor control in humanoid robotics and the development of the humanoid robot ARMAR. He is leading the system integration tasks and the development team of the humanoid robot series ARMAR ((ARMAR-I, ARMAR-II, ARMAR-IIIa, ARMAR-IIIb, ARMAR-IV, …) in the German Humanoid Robotics Project (SFB 588) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is Principle Investigator in several European Cognitive Systems Integrated Projects: He is PI and coordinator of FP7 Integrated Project Xperience (2011-2015), scientific Manager of FP7 Integrated Project GRASP (2008-2012) and PI and co-coordinator of FP6 Integrated Project PACO-PLUS (2006-2010). Further he was co-coordinator of the working group ”Intelligent and Cognitive Systems” in the European FET Coordination Action InterLink (2006 – 2009). His major research interest is humanoid robotics. In particular, his research topics include action learning from human observation, goal-directed imitation learning, dexterous grasping and manipulation, active vision and active touch, whole-body motion planning, cognitive control architectures, system integration, robot software and hardware control architecture, motor control and mechatronics. He is European Chair of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Humanoid Robots. He is member the Executive Board of the German Association of Robotics (DGR: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Robotik).

Contact information

Languages:
Arabic ()
English
German (Deutsch)
Italian (Italiano)

asfour@kit.edu
+49 721 60847379

+49 721 608 44077
http://wwwiaim.ira.uka.de/users/asfour