Patryk Cieslak

Patryk Cieślak received his PhD in 2016 from the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland. He was involved in several projects concentrating around control system design in mobile robotics and manipulator systems. He is also a co-author of a commercial rehabilitation robot called Prodrobot, being a stationary lower limbs exoskeleton, used in the relearning and improvement of natural gait patterns of children. Recently, his research interests focus around autonomous underwater mobile manipulation. For the last two years he worked as a Marie Curie postdoc in the Underwater Vision and Robotics Lab (CIRS) by the University of Girona, Spain. During the project he developed control strategies for compliant autonomous underwater mobile manipulation, utilising a wrist mounted force-torque sensor. He was also involved in works on underwater obstacle avoidance and motion planning. Patryk Cieślak is also the author of a modern open-source simulation software, directed towards underwater robotics community, called Stonefish. Recently, he is continuing his research in CIRS, working on cooperative autonomous underwater floating-base manipulation.