Autonomy for Sustainability: An AESS Vision and Perspectives

Sustainability is a key challenge for the future of humanity. In this frame, the AESS Working Group on Vision and Perspectives has identified “autonomy for sustainability” as a super topic where the broad field of interest of AESS and the related focus on complex systems in multiple domains can play the difference for an effective and timely implementation of the sustainability goal. This article presents ideas and possible developments of the super topic in some of the technical domains of the AESS panels. The aim is to share this vision with AESS members and readers and to start the interaction that is needed to transform an idea into a live matter, where AESS panels and members work together for a promising perspective.