Machine Automation & Autonomy in Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue intends to collect international, cutting-edge research outputs that will accelerate the automation of agricultural equipment.

We encourage you to consider the opportunities for impact magnification enabled by this journal’s open-access format and open-source spirit.

Contributions to this Special Issue are encouraged from research related to, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Modeling, development, and testing of technologies enabling the transition from partial automation to full autonomy;
• Machine automation applications in row crops, specialty crops, livestock, forestry, and other agricultural sectors at various scales;
• Systems analysis of agricultural automation on techno-economic, infrastructure, agronomic, energy, sustainability areas, etc.;
• Human factor explorations of interactions with automated and autonomous machine systems;
• Integration of emerging digital agricultural insights into automated machine systems;
• Individual and/or scalable distributed machine systems;
• Path planning and route optimization of agricultural machine systems;
• Alternative energy utilization and storage systems enabled via automation.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. AgriEngineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.