Prof. Cezary Kownacki

Cezary Kownacki has worked at the Bialystok University of Technology since 1998. He graduated in 1998, receiving a M. Eng. in automation and robotics, and he received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and signal processing from the Bialystok University of Technology in 2005. Between 2008 and 2020, his primary research interests focused on Kalman filters and their applications, and mostly on unmanned aerial vehicles and related navigational algorithms, i.e., obstacle detection and avoidance, UAV flocking, and formation flights. From 2016 to 2020, he was R&D manager in a developmental project entitled "Application research in the area of navigation, control, communication and data exchange between an autonomous vessel and an aircraft", financed by the European Regional Development Fund as a part of the Intelligent Development Operational Program 2014-2020 (POIR.04.01.04-00-0025/16). Recently, he has also worked on asymmetrical artificial potential fields developed to be applied on nonholonomic vehicles such as fixed-wing UAVs. In 2020, he obtained a postdoctoral degree in the field of mechanical engineering for scientific achievements in research on unmanned aerial vehicles.