Dear Colleagues, Robotics is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Agricultural and Field Robotics". Prof. Dr. Qin Zhang and Prof. Dr. Manoj Karkee, both from Washington State University, are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. We would like to invite you to contribute based on your expertise.
Agriculture is one of the oldest and most important industries that human civilization has established. Fundamentally, agriculture relies on the efficient utilization of natural resources, such as land, water, nutrition, and other chemicals to produce the basic necessities of human lives, including food, fiber, feed, and fuel. As predicted by the United Nations, the world’s population will increase to approximately 10 billion by 2050. The continuously increasing pressure to feed a rapidly growing population presents a huge challenge to the agricultural industry: How to sustainably produce enough agricultural supplies to meet such a huge demand. For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue website at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/AFR. The submission deadline is 31 July 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (robot...@mdpi.com). From Volume 6, all published papers will be added in Scopus. The journal is also indexed in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), as part of the ESCI database. Robotics is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. An article processing charge (APC) of CHF 350 currently applies to all accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/instructions). We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Linda Wang Managing Editor Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics) is a journal published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. Robotics maintains rigorous peer-review and a rapid publication process. All articles are published with a CC BY 4.0 license. For more information on the CC BY license, please see: http://creativecommons.org To submit to the journal click here: http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=robotics Unsubscribe: http://www.mdpi.com/unsub/unsubscribe/mail/Um9ib3RpY3NAbWRwaS5jb20=/8795b601147e7dee2ad869265e01dc6bf1bad227048e5558d1cfb6a3136b52d5 Manage your subscriptions: http://www.mdpi.com/unsub/managesubscriptions/mail/Um9ib3RpY3NAbWRwaS5jb20=/8795b601147e7dee2ad869265e01dc6bf1bad227048e5558d1cfb6a3136b52d5 MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute www.mdpi.com St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax +41 61 302 89 18 _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
