G. Siavalas, E. Vrochidou, V. G. Kaburlasos, “Unmanned aerial vehicles for agricultural automation”. In: Unmanned Aerial Systems in Agriculture: Eyes Above Fields, D. Bochtis, A. C. Tagarakis, D. Kateris (Eds.), chapter 6, pp. ?-?, August 11, 2023. Academic Press, Paperback ISBN: 9780323919401, eBook ISBN: 9780323914017
Abstract Seasonal labor shortages in agriculture are experienced throughout Europe and beyond especially, but not only, during the harvest time when the demand for hands is high as well as urgent. Agrobots have been established as a sustainable solution to support these growing demands due to their capacity to work incessantly, fast as well as with skillful precision. In the aforementioned context, this work investigates the design of a single multi-purpose robotic system towards automation of a number of skillful…
Abstract Fourier-transform near infrared (FT-NIR) reflection spectra of intact berries of the grape variety Thompson seedless were used to predict total soluble solids (TSS) content. From an initial dataset, 12 subsets were considered by applying variable selection to extract the reflectance values at wavenumbers most correlated to the chemometrically measured TSS content. The datasets were processed by both multiple linear regression (MLR) and partial least squares (PLS) methods towards predicting the TSS content from the reflection values of each spectrum.…
Abstract In recent years, the agricultural sector has turned to robotic automation to deal with the growing demand for food. Harvesting fruits and vegetables is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming among the main agricultural tasks. However, seasonal labor shortage of experienced workers results in low efficiency of harvesting, food losses, and quality deterioration. Therefore, research efforts focus on the automation of manual harvesting operations. Robotic manipulation of delicate products in unstructured environments is challenging. The development of suitable end effectors…
C. Bazinas, E. Vrochidou, T. Kalampokas, A. Karampatea, V. G. Kaburlasos, “A non-destructive method for grape ripeness estimation using Intervals’ Numbers (INs) techniques”, Agronomy, vol. 12, no. 7, 1564, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12071564
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