Opened in 1965, University of Bochum was the first new university to be established in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War. Partnerships with extra-mural companies and facilities play just as important a role as does the university's cooperation with fellow universities.
The Institute for Neurocomputing is concerned with fundamental problems of information processing that are solved by organisms and their nervous systems. Artificial autonomous systems are confronted with these same problems. The Institute's goal is to understand the organisational principles through which nervous systems solve these problems and to mould these principles into new solutions to problems of information processing in technical systems. This is done around the exemplary areas of artificial action (autonomous robotics), artificial perception (computer vision) and artificial cognition. Industrial applications are pursued in driver assistance systems, face recognition, medical engineering, and geophysical remote sensing.
URL: www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Focal points of project:
The University of Bochum provides components for recognising gestures and objects and develops collision-free path and/or motion planning.

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