Michał Barciś, PhD
Bio:
Michał Barciś is a Lead Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
His main interest lies in making robots work in the real world, which allows the research to come true.
During his career, Michał took part in various robotic competitions. Among them, two are perhaps worth mentioning the most: first place in DroneBot competition in Deep Drone Challenge 2021 (prototypes of autonomous drone capable of communication with air traffic control) and second place in University Rover Challenge 2017 (Mars rover competition).
He completed his PhD on the topic of "Information Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems" in the doctoral school named Karl Popper Kolleg on Networked Autonomous Aerial Vehicles at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
He has obtained his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in computer science at the University of Wrocław in Poland.
Publications:
For a recent list of publications, check my
Google Scholar profile.
Some projects worth mentioning:
I've gathered all the videos of projects I've been working on in a
YouTube playlist.
- DroneBot for Deep Drone Challenge 2021
- A prototype of a drone able to understand verbal Air Traffic Control commands. Scored first on Deep Drone Challenge 2021.
- Karl Popper Kolleg on Networked Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
- a swarm of drones is autonomously exploring an unknown environment to obtain a 3D reconstruction of objects of interests.
- Aleph 0 Mars Rover
- a mars rover which scored second on University Rover Challenge 2017 (at the time the most prestigious competition of student-made mars rovers).
- Car Testing Center (http://ctc.mbarcis.net)
- a web-based racing game developed in free time during my studies
- ray tracer
- a ray tracer created during my studies
- sTime
- a startup I've started providing timing services for skiing competitions
- superzajecia (offline, screenshot)
- a collection of skiing excersises (in polish)
- puzzlies.net (offline, webarchive)
- a website for lovers of logic puzzles
Talks:
- Projects that stand out
- an invited talk given during Roche IT Days, March 2018.
- Python w łaziku marsjańskim?
- a talk and a short publication (available online) presented during PyCon PL 2017.
- Jak realizować projekty nie z tej ziemi (Youtube)
- an invited talk given during TEDx Bydgoszcz in 2017.
- Students' projects
- a talk given during the open door days of University of Wrocław about why it's worth to create self-motivated projects during IT studies, 2014.
