Evolvable Systems Engineering – Overview HRI-EU
Departmental Seminar
- When?
- Wednesday 29 August 2012, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39 BB 02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students, Public
- Speaker:
- Prof Dr Bernhard Sendhoff, President and Managing Director of the Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
After an overview of the activities of the Honda Research Institute Europe, Prof Dr Bernhard Sendhoff will outline evolutionary optimization under the constraint of robustness. Different application domains will demonstrate the practical aspects of robust optimization. Systems engineering aims at integrating many different criteria into the optimal design of systems. He will argue that for biological as well as technical systems the high degree of spatial and temporal variability is an integral aspect of system design. Looking beyond robustness, Prof Dr Bernhard Sendhoff will introduce the biological concept of evolvability in the technical context of systems engineering. Prof Dr Bernhard Sendhoff will interpret evolvability as the capability of a technical system to respond to changes in the system's environment rapidly, efficiently and successfully.
Finally, Prof Dr Bernhard Sendhoff will present a simplified application targeting the improvement of the evolvability of a technical system.
Biography
- Studied physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Germany from October 1987 to November 1993
- 1990 / 1991 studied abroad at University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom as a scholar of the DAAD (German academic exchange agency)
- 1992 /1993 worked on his diploma thesis in a collaboration of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences , University of Sussex, Prof. D. Bailin and the Insitute Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Professor K Goecke.
- Graduated in November 1993 with a thesis in theoretical elementary particle physics.
- Worked as a PhD student at the Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum since January 1994 in the group of Professor W von Seelen.
- Finished his PhD in May 1998 with a thesis entitled Evolution of Structures - Optimization of Artificial Neural Structures for Information Processing. Gutachter Professor Dr W von Seelen and Professor Dr C von der Malsburg.
- Worked as a research assistant (post doc) at the Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum from May 1998 to April 1999 in the SONN research group.
- Joined the Future Technology Research Division (FTR) at HONDA R&D EUROPE (Deutschland) GmbH in April 1999, still being affiliated also with the SONN research group at the Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
- Worked as Deputy Division Manager, Chief Scientist and head of the EL-TEC research group at the Future Technology Research Division (FTR) at HONDA R&D EUROPE (Deutschland) GmbH from 2001 to 2002
- Was Chief Technology Officer at the Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH from 2003 - 2011
- Is Honorary Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK since 2007
- Is Honorary Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, since 2008
- Is President and Managing Director of the Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH since April 2011