Dr. Hagen Schempf is a Principal Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and Director of the Hazardous Environments Robotics Laboratory (HERL).

Dr. Schempf has 20 years experience in real-world industrial and academic robotics and is a world-recognized expert in robot systems design, prototyping and fielding for hazardous (explosive, underwater and nuclear) environments. Key accomplishments include the development and fielding of underwater manipulators and controls used in deep-water archeology and the discovery of the Titanic and the Bismarck, development and fielding of first-ever robot systems for use in explosive storage tank inspections and cleanup, nuclear waste storage tank and asbestos abatement, plant-container handling, live natural gas pipeline inspection and ultra-rugged military reconnaissance robot system development.

Dr. Schempf has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Steven Institute of Technology (1984), and holds an M.Sc. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering (1986) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1990).

Projects
Untethered Gasline Inspection Robot, Field-Container Handling System, Dragon Runner

Interests
Electromechanical Design; System Integration & Test

For a more detailed description of research interests and papers see:
www.ri.cmu.edu/people/schempf_hagen.html