T. Pachidis

Assessing the economic performance of multipurpose collaborative robots toward skillful and sustainable viticultural practices – Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 4, 3866, 2023

E. Tziolas, E. Karapatzak, I. Kalathas, A. Karampatea, A. Grigoropoulos, A. Bajoub, T. Pachidis, V. G. Kaburlasos, “Assessing the economic performance of multipurpose collaborative robots toward skillful and sustainable viticultural practices”, Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 4, 3866, 2023. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/3866 

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Comparative assessment of environmental/energy performance under conventional labor and collaborative robot scenarios in Greek viticulture – Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 3, 2753, 2023

E. Tziolas, E. Karapatzak, I. Kalathas, C. Lytridis, S. Mamalis, S. Koundouras, T. Pachidis, V. G. Kaburlasos, “Comparative assessment of environmental/energy performance under conventional labor and collaborative robot scenarios in Greek viticulture”, Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 3, 2753, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032753 

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Coordinated navigation of two agricultural robots in a vineyard: A simulation study – Sensors, vol. 22, no. 23, 9095, 2022

Abstract The development of an effective agricultural robot presents various challenges in actuation, localization, navigation, sensing, etc., depending on the prescribed task. Moreover, when multiple robots are engaged in an agricultural task, this requires appropriate coordination strategies to be developed to ensure safe, effective, and efficient operation. This paper presents a simulation study that demonstrates a robust coordination strategy for the navigation of two heterogeneous robots, where one robot is the expert and the second robot is the helper in…

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Considerations for a multi-purpose agrobot design toward automating skillful viticultural tasks: a study in northern Greece vineyards – HAICTA 2022, Athens, Greece

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…

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Fuzzy lattice reasoning (FLR) for decision-making on an ontology of constraints toward agricultural robot harvest – FLINS 2022 on Machine learning, Multi agent and Cyber physical systems, Tianjin, China (Best Paper Award)

Abstract A sustainable production of high-quality agricultural products calls for personalized- rather than for massive- operations. The aforementioned (personalized) operations can be pursued by human-like reasoning applicable per case. The interest here is in agricultural grape robot harvest where a binary decision needs to be taken, given a set of ambiguous constraints represented by a Boolean lattice ontology of inequalities. Fuzzy lattice reasoning (FLR) is employed for decision making. Preliminary experimental results on expert data demonstrate the advantages of the…
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