Rafał Kot graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw with an MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication in 2016. He served for almost 6 years in the Marine Aviation Base in the Polish Army, where he gained experience in servicing and maintenance of aircraft in the avionics area. Since 2022, he has been working at the Polish Naval Academy. His main research includes underwater obstacle detection systems, path planning algorithms, and collision avoidance systems for autonomous underwater vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Piotr Szymak graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw with an MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication in 1999. He served for two years in the 6th Radioelectronic Centre in the Polish Navy. Since 2001, he has been serving in the Polish Naval Academy (PNA) in the following positions: assistant, lecturer, adjunct, head of department, assistant professor, and associate professor. He was a director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Automatics in PNA from 2015 to 2019. He was a Polish naval Captech National Coordinator in the European Defence Agency from 2019 to 2021. In 2004, he received a PhD degree from the Polish Naval Academy, and in 2016, he obtained the academic degree of habilitated doctor at Cracow University of Technology. His research area is strictly connected with the modeling and control of marine objects, especially unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, including recently biomimetic underwater vehicles.

Dr. Paweł Piskur graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw in 2004 with a master’s degree in airplane studies. He subsequently worked in the Polish Army’s Marine Aviation Base. In 2010, he received a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the Koszalin University of Technology. Since 2017, he has been working at the Polish Naval Academy. His research area is strictly connected with unmanned underwater vehicles, especially biomimetic propulsion systems. His research topics mainly include particle image velocimetry (PIV), underwater robotics, fluid–structure interaction (FSI), biomimetic propulsion systems, and modeling and simulation of mechatronic systems.

Since 1998, Krzysztof Naus has been serving in the Polish Naval Academy (PNA) in the following positions at the Institute of Navigation and Maritime Hydrography: assistant, lecturer, adjunct, assistant professor, and associate professor. In 2003, he received PhD degree from the Polish Naval Academy, and in 2015, he obtained the academic degree of habilitated doctor at AGH University of Science and Technology. His research area is strictly related to marine navigation and positioning of marine objects, especially unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, including recently autonomous biomimetic underwater vehicles.