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Tomasz Jedwabny is a robotics and automation researcher whose work spans articulated mobile robots, astronomical instrumentation, and multi-robot systems. His most significant contribution lies in the control of non-standard N-trailer robots—highly nonlinear, nonholonomic systems with passively off-hooked trailers. His 2013 paper on cascaded VFO (Vector Field Orientation) control for these complex vehicles (13 citations) addresses fundamental challenges in motion control for underactuated, structurally unstable systems. Jedwabny also developed an optical scanner for mobile robots (1997, 6 citations) to investigate 3D space, and designed modular architectures for multi-robot teleoperation and formation control (2013, 5 citations). More recently, he contributed to astronomical instrumentation through the SkyLab facility (2020, 3 citations)—a fully autonomous observation laboratory at Poznan University of Technology supporting ground-based surveys and surveillance research. His work on high-precision automated astronomical mounts (2019, 17 citations) further demonstrates his versatility, bridging robotics with practical astronomy. Jedwabny’s career reflects a sustained focus on solving real-world control and sensing problems across domains, from mobile robot soccer (2000) to cutting-edge observatory automation.