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Call for Papers | Journal of Terramechanics Special Issue

Soil Modeling and Simulation for Terramechanics Applications of Manned and Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles

This Special Issue encourages manuscripts for:

  • robust real-time physics-based soil models and simulation methods

  • real-time locomotion-soil interaction and 3D-force formation in the locomotion-soil contact

  • application of real-time physics-based soil models to vehicle mobility and energy efficiency modeling, simulation, and assessment on-the-go

  • calibration and validation of physics-based soil models, including but not limited to artificial intelligence-based validation of soil data

  • onnovative in-situ soil exteroceptive and proprioceptive sensors, sensor models, and measurement methods for real-time applications on vehicle hardware and in real-time mobility simulations and prediction of vehicle dynamic behavior on off-road terrains

Guest editors

Mehari Tekeste

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
(Soil Modeling; Soil Compaction; Soil Dynamics)

Thomas Way

USDA Agricultural Research Service National Soil Dynamics Laboratory, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America
(Soil Dynamics; Soil Compaction; Soil-Vehicle Interaction)

Mustafa Alsaleh

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Illinois, United States of America
(Soil Modeling; Machine Analysis; Virtual Product Development)

Manuscript submission information

Manuscript submission open date: 30 June 2023
Manuscript submission deadline: 30 August 2023

You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Dr. Mehari Tekeste via mtekeste@iastate.edu.

Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of “VSI: Soil Modeling for TA” when submitting your manuscript online at the journal’s submission platform Editorial Manager. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could also be found on the Journal of Terramechanics homepage.

Keywords

Soil Model; Terramechanics; Manned and Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles