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S. Radkowski is a leading researcher in agricultural robotics, with a focused expertise in autonomous navigation, machine vision, and collision avoidance for field robots. His work centers on developing intelligent systems that enable agricultural robots to operate independently in complex, unstructured environments. Radkowski’s most significant contribution is the design and testing of an autonomous field robot for wide-row cultivation, a collaborative effort with the Industrial Institute of Agriculture Engineering in Poznan, the Institute of Vehicles at Warsaw Technical University, and the firm Promar Poznan. This robot is engineered to perform sowing and cultivation tasks autonomously, representing a major step toward precision agriculture. His key paper, “Autonomous Agricultural Robot – Testing of the Vision System for Plants/Weed Classification” (2018, 11 citations), demonstrates his pioneering work in using computer vision to distinguish crops from weeds, a critical capability for targeted weeding. Radkowski has also advanced inertial navigation systems for robots and provided comprehensive overviews of collision avoidance methods. Though his citation counts are modest, his hands-on field tests and system integration work have laid practical foundations for the next generation of autonomous farming machinery.