Prof. Dr.- Ing. Peter Ott and the other two visiting scholars paid an academic visit to Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM) on August 31. Prof. Tao Mei , vice president of Hefei I nstitute of P hysical S cience of Chinese A cademy of S ciences and D irector of Institute of Intelligent Machines, gave them a warm reception. Prof. Mei delivered an introduction of IIM to them, which stresses on the research direction and the subject construction, especially the important research achievements gained recently. The discussion on research direction of common interest was held in a favorable atmosphere and a good agreement was reached, which laid a sound foundation for the further collaboration.
    Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, with a strong Mechatronics & Micro System Engineering department, is situated in Heilbronn , Germany . In 1997 Prof. Peter received his doctor's degree from Stuttgart University . In September 1999 he work in the world-famous corporation, Carl Zeiss, in charge of development and administration of projects. In October 1999 he was appointed to be professor at University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn, taking charge of optical technology laboratory , directing research on optical design and simulation, photoelectricity measurement as well as mobile quality control and guarantee system and achieving remarkable success— two patents of invention obtained , over forty theses published in the international journal and Ray-tracing and optic design software for designing and simulating optical systems being widely used.
    Now Prof. Peter is co-opareting with Prof. Jun Gao of IIM taking charge of Sino-German project- Rotational symmetric optical distance sensor with optical freeform mirror surfaces for applications in industrial quality assurance.