Prof. Teresa Zielińska
Scientific degreeD.Sc., Ph.D., Professor Position
Contact info
Tel.: (+48) 22 234 77 90 'Nowy Lotniczy' Building, room 226 Address
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Education
Warsaw Univ.of Technology, Poland, Electronics, Automatics, M.Eng., 1979
Warsaw Univ.of Technology, Poland, Robotics, Ph.D., 1987
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Biocybernetics Habilitation, 1995
Research interest
Utilization of biological patterns in planning of walking machines motion including humanoids (synthesis of their control methods), robotics control systems, navigation of mobile robots.
Selected practical achievements
- Design of communication protocol for the communication between different hardware and different operating systems (QNX and PC-104 in one side and set of 6 Motorolla TCP universal controllers in the other side); the customised communication protocol was designed, implemented and tested.
- Design expertise of hexapods (Nanyang Technological University and GROVEN Singapore).
- Design, and implementation of control and navigation system for a group of autonomous walking hexapods (GROVEN);
- Shear force sensor for robotic application (Loughborough University of Technology - GB)
Teaching activities
Teaching courses include control engineering, and advanced control theory (in both languages of instruction - Polish and English)
Career
| 2008 | Faculty of Power Engineering Vice Dean |
| Visiting Profesor, Nanyang Technological University (1 month) | |
| 2008 - 2002 | Head of Division on Theory of Machines and Robots, professor since 2003, full professor since 2005 |
| 2005 | Visiting professor, National University of Singapore (1,5 month) |
| 2002 - 2001 | Associate Professor, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland |
| 2001 - 1998 | Senior Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 1998 - 1992 | Associate Professor, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland |
| 1995 | Visiting Researcher, Ohio State University, USA (1,5 month) |
| 1992 | Researcher, Loughborough Univ. of Technology, UK (0.5 year) |
| 1990 | Visiting Professor, Politeccnico di Torino, Turin, Italy (0.5 year) |
| 1992 - 1987 | Senior researcher, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland |
| 1986 - 1981 | Senior programmer, Computing Center, Agricultural Academy, Warsaw |
| 1979 - 1981 | Research assistaint – Polish Academy of Acience |
Professional activities
- Rector’s Proxy for Studies in English
- European Master in Robotics -EMARO - Erasmus Mundus action 3 – partnership - local coordnator
- Erasmus Mundus – action 4 – enhancing atractivness of computer vision and robotics in Europe (EACOVIORE) local coordinator
- WillPower Erasmus Mundus External Windows (India) – local coordinator
Supervision of thesis
- 3 PhD thesis
- overall 45 BEng., M.Eng. thesis
Summary of Publications
- Journals (in majority international) - 40
- Books and chapters in books - 29
- Conferences (in majority international) - 110
- Books – edition/co-edition - 4
- Reports and others - 26
Selected publications (max. 5)
- Zielinska T., “Biological Aspects of Locomotion. In Walking: Biological and Technological Aspects”, CISM Courses and Lectures n. 467. Ed. by F.Pfeiffer, T.Zielinska. Springer Verlag 2004, pp.1-30
- Zielinska T., J.Heng: Real-time Control System for a Group of Autonomous Walking Robots. Advanced Robotics, vol.20, no.5, 2006, pp.543-561
- Zielinska T., C.M.Chew C.M.: Biologically Inspired Motion Planning in Robotics. Robot Motion and Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences no.335, Ed. Kozlowski K. Springer, Chapter 13, 2006, pp.201-219
- Zielinska T., Ch.M.Chew, P.Kryczka, T.Jargilo: Robot Gait Synthesis Using the Scheme of Human Motion Skills Develoment. Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol.44, no.3, 2009, pp.541-558,
- T.Zielinska: Journal of Physiology-Paris Volume 103, Issues 3-5, September 2009, Pages 133-140 , Biological inspiration used for robots motion synthesis.
Other relevant information
- Nominated member of History of Machines and Mechanisms Committee IFToMM
- Nominated member of Technical Committee Robotics by IFToMM. (International Federation on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms)
- Senior member of IEEE.
- Associate editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory (by Elsevier)
- Member of Editorial Board Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering in China (Springer)
- Member of Editorial Board Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Member of Steering Committee of CISM IFToMM Symposia on Robotics, and the main organizer of the event in year 2006
- Member of Scientifics Commitee of Several International Conferences (by IFToMM, CLAWAR etc.)
- For the Monograph: Walking Machines: Fundamentals, Design, Control and Biological Patterns (National Scientific Publisher - 2003) she awarded Minister of Education Price (2004).
- Member of TC ROBOTICS IFtoMM member of HMM IFToMM
- Member of WUT Senate Comission for International Matters
Recent Research Grants/Projects
- PROTEUS – Innovative Industry Project - sub-task manager
- Analysis of Human Gait Features for Application in Robotics (Ministry grant) - manager