Future scenarios with autonomous vehicles
Having described the proposed FMMIS depicting current manned agricultural machinery, a future scenario would entail the introduction of a small robotic vehicle, which is depicted in Fig. 3. As it can be seen, the two systems are quite similar in terms of structural components and functionalities. Differences include the size of the implements, specifically in the case of the small sized and light weighted field robot. Additionally, in the future robotic era, the tractor operator will be replaced with an agro-robotic engineer who will be responsible for the programming and operating of the two systems.