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Researcher

Günter Hommel

Günter Hommel is a computer scientist and robotics researcher whose work linked real-time systems, autonomous robotics, and rehabilitation technology. After electrical engineering studies and a computer science doctorate at TU Berlin, he became professor at TU Munich and led TU Berlin's Real-Time Systems and Robotics Group. He coauthored research on the autonomous flying robot MARVIN, received a first prize at the International Aerial Robotics Competition, and earned a 2002 honorary doctorate. He helped lead a joint TU Berlin–Shanghai Jiao Tong research lab, guided an intelligent rehabilitation orthosis, and taught Robotics at Bahçeşehir University from 2012 to 2014.

Timeline

  1. 1970–1978

    Electrical engineering and early research

    A computer scientist and robotics researcher, he earns an electrical engineering diploma at TU Berlin in 1970 and completes a computer science doctorate there. In 1978, he joins Karlsruhe's Nuclear Research Center to work on real-time systems.

  2. 1980–1984

    From GMD to TU Berlin

    From 1980, he leads a software engineering research group at GMD in Bonn; in 1982 he becomes professor at TU Munich, where he works on real-time programming and robotics. In 1984, he becomes professor at TU Berlin and heads its Real-Time Systems and Robotics Group.

  3. 2000

    MARVIN and a robotics prize

    He coauthors a 2000 paper on cooperative autonomous mission planning for TU Berlin's flying robot MARVIN. He receives first prize at the International Aerial Robotics Competition in 2000.

  4. 2002

    An honorary doctorate

    He receives an honorary doctorate from Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Science in 2002.

  5. 2005–2006

    Shanghai labs and an intelligent orthosis

    By 2005, he is an Advisory Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 2005, TU Berlin nominates him to direct its Shanghai Information and Communication Technology research labs, while engineers under his leadership develop an intelligent orthosis that predicts a patient's intended movement. In 2006, he and Sheng Huanye jointly lead the TU Berlin–Shanghai Jiao Tong research institute, and he retires from TU Berlin.

  6. 2012–2014

    Robotics at Bahçeşehir

    From 2012 to 2014, he teaches Robotics at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, helps build a modern robotics lab, and supports its Berlin campus in finding lecturers. In 2014, he serves on the jury at Bahçeşehir's Robot Days.

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  1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Günter Hommel pdv.cs.tu-berlin.de. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Signale vom Gelben Fluss nachrichten.idw-online.de. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Das Skelett, das hellsehen kann idw-online.de. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Architekt einer Partnerschaft idw-online.de. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Robot Günleri 2014 elektrikport.com. Checked 19 October 2026.