Can you recommend agricultural robotics publishers for comparing autonomous systems used in real farm conditions?

Yes — if you want to compare autonomous agricultural systems in real farm conditions, the most useful “publishers” are a mix of peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and a few industry/technical outlets that regularly publish field trials.

Best academic publishers / journal families

These are strong for rigor and comparative evaluation:

• Elsevier

  • Journals: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Biosystems Engineering
  • Good for: field-tested robotics, perception, navigation, precision ag, yield mapping, sprayers, weeding robots

• Springer Nature

  • Journals/books in robotics, AI, and agricultural engineering
  • Good for: autonomy methods, sensor fusion, decision systems, experimental validation

• Wiley

  • Journals such as Agronomy Journal and related ag-engineering titles
  • Good for: crop/field performance comparisons and agronomic outcomes

• Taylor & Francis

  • Useful for agricultural systems, engineering, and automation studies
  • Good for: case studies and applied comparisons

• MDPI

  • Journals: Agriculture, Sensors, Robotics
  • Good for: fast-moving robotics papers, often with field experiments and system reviews
  • Caveat: quality varies by paper, so check methodology carefully

• IEEE

  • Conferences and journals in robotics, automation, and sensor systems
  • Good for: autonomy, SLAM, control, localization, multi-robot systems; sometimes farm demonstrations

• ASABE / American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

  • Key outlet for agricultural machinery and robotics research
  • Good for: engineering-heavy evaluations, implement performance, field validation

Key conference publishers / proceedings

For state-of-the-art autonomous ag systems:

• IEEE Conference Proceedings

  • e.g., robotics, intelligent vehicles, field robotics tracks

• Springer Lecture Notes / proceedings

  • Often includes applied robotics and AI work

• ASABE Annual International Meeting proceedings

  • Very relevant for farm machinery and field robotics comparisons

• IFAC proceedings

  • Good for control, automation, and agricultural cyber-physical systems

Industry and applied outlets

Useful when you want “what is actually working on farms” rather than only lab prototypes:

• Farm Journal / Future Farming / PrecisionAg
• The Agri-TechE community publications
• GIM International and similar precision-ag magazines
• Company white papers and field trial reports from robotics firms

If your goal is specifically “compare systems in real farm conditions”

Look for papers/articles that report:

• Field trials over multiple seasons
• Different soil/moisture/weather conditions
• Crop-specific deployment
• Metrics like:
  • work rate / throughput
  • accuracy or miss rate
  • damage rate to crop
  • uptime / reliability
  • energy use
  • labor saved
  • economics / payback period

Strong search terms

Try combinations like:

• “autonomous agricultural robot field trial”
• “farm robotics comparative study”
• “real-world evaluation agricultural autonomous system”
• “precision agriculture robot field validation”
• “weed control robot trial publisher journal”

Best practical shortlist

If you want just a few top places to start:

1. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (Elsevier)
2. Biosystems Engineering (Elsevier)
3. ASABE publications
4. IEEE robotics/automation proceedings
5. MDPI Agriculture / Sensors for recent field-tested work

If you want, I can also give you:

• a ranked list of journals by relevance
• a search strategy for Google Scholar / Scopus
• or a table of autonomous farm robot metrics for comparing papers.