Special Issue Editors: Giuseppe Loianno, Varun Murali, Fiorella Sibona, Fernando Cladera, Salah Sukkarieh, Vijay Kumar
Precision agriculture is essential for increasing crop yields while reducing environmental impact, particularly in the face of climate change effects. Commercial robotic solutions are actively being deployed to assist in agricultural tasks enhancing efficiency and productivity. However, autonomous robots are far from reaching their full potential in this domain. Fully autonomous robots can significantly impact precision agriculture by providing mapping, sensing, or manipulation capabilities for crops and forests, enabling fruit counting, tree diameter estimation, crop disease detection, carbon sequestration quantification, smart spraying, and biomass estimation, among others.
The new IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR) announces a special issue on Precision Agriculture and Forestry to examine topics incumbent to robots in agricultural and silvicultural settings.
We invite papers that exhibit theory, methods, and application of robotics in precision agriculture and precision forestry, including:
We are especially interested in papers that address field-ready innovations moving from proof-of-concept to near deployed systems.
Papers for this special issue must provide technical descriptions of systems and results and analysis of experimentation. We invite discussion and analysis of the scientific impact of robots in agriculture and forestry, as well as novel methods and techniques for sensing, harvesting, mapping, and spraying. We welcome papers that demonstrate how theoretical methods perform in practical deployments, or that document how systems evolved through real-world iteration; lessons learned and challenges in development and operation are pertinent to this discussion. We encourage authors to review the T-FR information for authors for further information.
The T-FR encourages multimedia content and this issue seeks media illustrating novel approaches of precision agriculture and forestry with autonomous robots as well as open source software and public datasets related to robotics in agriculture and forestry settings.
Special Issue Editors: David Wettergreen (Carnegie Mellon), Teresa Vidal Calleja (UTS) and Rudolph Triebel (DLR)
Space applications present many challenges to robotic systems: from extremes of temperature, vacuum, shock and gravity, to limitations on power and communication, from the intricate complexity of systems engineering, to requirements for reliability, robustness and autonomy.
The new IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR) announces a special issue on Space Robotics to examine topics related to robotics intended or applied beyond the Earth.
We invite papers that exhibit theory, methods, and application of robotic systems in space including:
Papers for this special issue must provide technical descriptions of systems and results and analysis of experimentation. We invite discussion and analysis of orbital robots/spacecraft and planetary rovers as well as prototype systems that have been field tested in terrestrial analogue environments. Lessons learned in development and operation are pertinent to the discussion.
We encourage papers addressing all aspects of space systems and applications. Robotic systems on Earth orbit, traveling in deep space, or operating on the surfaces of planets, moons, comets, or asteroids are of particular interest, as well systems envisioned for space application but developed and demonstrated in relevant environments here on Earth.
The T-FR encourages multimedia content and this issue seeks media illustrating space systems as well as open source software and public datasets related to space or analogue experiments
