Journals

  1. Tang M, Sadowski DL, Peng C, Vougioukas SG, Klever B, Khasla SDS, Brown PH and Jin Y. (2023). Tree-level almond yield estimation from high resolution aerial imagery with convolutional neural network. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1070699. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1070699
  2. Peng, C., Fei, Z., Vougioukas, SG. (2023). GNSS-Free End-of-Row Detection and Headland Maneuvering for Orchard Navigation Using a Depth Camera. Machines 11(1), 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11010084
  3. Villacrés, J.,  Viscaino, M., Delpiano, J., Vougioukas, SG., Auat Cheein, F. (2023) Apple orchard production estimation using deep learning strategies: a comparison of tracking-by-detection algorithms. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (203) 107513.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2022.107513
  4. Peng, C., Vougioukas, S., Slaughter, D., Fei, Z., Arikapudi, R. (2022) A strawberry harvest-aiding system with crop-transport co-robots: Design, development, and field evaluation. Journal of Field Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.22106
  5. Chou, H-Y., Khorsandi, F., Vougioukas, S.G., Fathallah, F. (2022). Developing and Evaluating an Autonomous Agricultural All-Terrain Vehicle for Field Experimental Rollover Simulations. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (194) 106735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2022.106735
  6. Avigal, Y., Wong, W., Presten, M., Theis, M., Aeron, S., Deza, A., Sharma, S., Parikh, R., Oehme, S., Carpin, S., Viers, J., Vougioukas, S., Goldberg, K. (2022). Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2021.3138995
  7. Arikapudi R., Vougioukas, S.G. (2021). Robotic Tree-fruit Harvesting with Telescoping Arms: A study of Linear Fruit Reachability under Geometric Constraints. IEEE Access. (9): 17114-17126 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3053490
  8. Fei, Z., Vougioukas, S.G. (2021). Co-Robotic Harvest-aid Platforms: Real-time Control of Picker Lift Heights to Maximize Harvesting Efficiency. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. (180): 105894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105894
  9. Fei, Z., Shepard, J., Vougioukas, S.G. (2020). Instrumented Picking Bag for Measuring Fruit Weight During Manual Harvesting. Transactions of the ASABE. 63(6): 1913-1924. https://doi.org/10.13031/trans.13981
  10. Peng, C., Vougioukas, S.G.  (2020). Deterministic predictive dynamic scheduling for crop-transport co-robots acting as harvesting aids. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 178, 105702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105702
  11. Vasconez, J.P. , Delpiano, J. Vougioukas, S.G., Auat Cheeina, F. (2020). Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks in Fruit Detection and Counting: a comprehensive evaluation. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. (173): 105348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105348
  12. Thayer, T., Vougioukas, S.G., Goldberg, K., Carpin, S. (2020). Multi-Robot Routing Algorithms for Robots Operating in Vineyards. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2020.2980854
  13. Seyyedhasani, H., Peng, C., Jang, W., Vougioukas, S.G. (2020). Collaboration of Human Pickers and Crop-transporting Robots during Harvesting – Part I: Model and Simulator Development.. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. (172): p.105324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105324
  14. Seyyedhasani, H., Peng, C., Jang, W., Vougioukas, S.G. (2020). Collaboration of Human Pickers and Crop-transporting Robots during Harvesting – Part II: Simulator Evaluation and Robot-Scheduling Case-study. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. (172): p.105323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105323
  15. Khosro Anjom, F., Vougioukas, S. G. (2019) Online Prediction of Tray-Transport Request Time for Robot-Aided Strawberry Harvesting using Mechanistic Grey Models. Biosystems Engineering. 188:265-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2019.10.025
  16. Charlton, D., Edward Taylor, j. E., Vougioukas, S.G. (2019). Can Wages Rise Quickly Enough to Keep Workers in the Fields? Choices, 2nd Quarter 34(2).
    http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/can-wages-rise-quickly-enough-to-keep-workers-in-the-fields
  17. Charlton, D., Edward Taylor, J.E., Vougioukas, S.G., Rutledge, Z. (2019). Innovations for a Shrinking Agricultural Workforce. Choices, 2nd Quarter 34(2).
    http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/estimating-value-damages-and-remedies-when-farm-data-are-misappropriated/innovations-for-a-shrinking-agricultural-workforce
  18. Vougioukas, S.G. (2019). Agricultural Robotics. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. (2):365-392. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-053018-023617.
  19. Khosro Anjom, F., Vougioukas, S. G., Slaughter, D.C. (2018). Development and Application of a Strawberry Yield-Monitoring Picking Cart. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.155: 400-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2018.10.038
  20. Durand-Petiteville, A., Le Flecher, E., Cadenat, V., Sentenac, T.,  Vougioukas, S.G. (2018). Tree detection with low-cost 3D sensors for autonomous navigation in orchards. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4): 3876-3883. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2857005 .
  21. Khosro Anjom, F., Vougioukas, S. G., Slaughter, D.C. (2018). Development of a Linear Mixed Model to Predict the Picking Time in Strawberry Harvesting Processes. Biosystems Engineering. (166): 76-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.10.006
  22. Paraforos, D.S., Griepentrog, H.W., Vougioukas, S.G. (2017). Modeling and Simulation of a Four-Rotor Rake Loading for Evaluating Accumulated Fatigue Damage: A Markov Regime-Switching Approach. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 34(2): 317-325. https://doi.org/10.13031/aea.12420
  23. Durand-Petiteville, A., Vougioukas, S. G., Slaughter, D.C. (2017). Real-time segmentation of strawberry flesh and calyx from images of singulated strawberries during postharvest processing. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, (142A): 298-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.09.011
  24. Vougioukas, S.G., Arikapudi R., Munic, J. (2016). A Study of Fruit Reachability in Orchard Trees by Linear-Only Motion. Journal: IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(16), pp.277-280. (From Peer reviewed proceedings of the 5th Agricontrol Conference, Seattle, USA.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.051
  25. Paraforos, D. Griepentrog, H., Vougioukas, S.G. (2016). Methodology for designing accelerated structural durability tests on agricultural machinery. Biosystems Engineering (149): 24-37. http://dx.doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.06.004
  26. Arikapudi, R., Vougioukas, S.G., Jiménez- Jiménez, F., Farangis Khosro Anjom, F. (2016). Estimation of Fruit Locations in Orchard Tree Canopies Using Radio Signal Ranging and Trilateration. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (125): 160-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2016.05.004
  27. Vougioukas, S.G., He, L., Arikapudi, R. (2016). Orchard Worker Localisation Relative to a Vehicle Using Radio Ranging and Trilateration. Biosystems Engineering (147): 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.03.006
  28. Paraforos, D. Griepentrog, H., Vougioukas, S.G. (2016). Country road and field surface profiles acquisition, modelling and synthetic realisation for evaluating fatigue life of agricultural machinery. Journal of Terramechanics (63): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jterra.2015.10.001
  29. Bochtis, D., Griepentrog, H.W., Vougioukas, S., Busato, P., Berruto, R., Zhou, K. (2015). Route planning for orchard operations, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 113: 51-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2014.12.024.
  30. Paraforos, D., Griepentrog, H., Vougioukas, S., Kortenbruck, D. (2014). Fatigue life assessment of a four-rotor swather based on rainflow cycle counting. Biosystems Engineering (127): 1-10.         http://doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2014.08.006
  31. Anastassiu, H. Vougioukas, S., Fronimos, T., Regen, C., Petrou, L., Zude, M., Käthner, J. (2014). A Computational Model for Path Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks in Orchard Environment. Sensors 14(3): 5118-5135. http://doi:10.3390/s140305118
  32. Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S., Whiting, M., Zhang, Q. (2014). Applying the Machine Repair Model to Improve Efficiency of Harvesting Fruit. Biosystems Engineering (120): 25-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.07.011
  33. Vougioukas, S., Anastassiu, H.T., Regen, C., Zude, M. (2013). Influence of foliage on radio path losses (PLs) for wireless sensor network (WSN) planning in orchards. Biosystems Engineering (114): 454-465. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.08.011
  34. Vougioukas, S.G. (2012). A distributed control framework for motion coordination of teams of autonomous agricultural vehicles. Biosystems Engineering (113): 284-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.08.013
  35. Hameed, I.A., Bochtis, D.D., Sørensen, C.G., Vougioukas, S. (2012). An Object Oriented Model for Simulating Agricultural In-field Machinery Activities. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 81(1): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2011.11.003
  36. Vougioukas, S., Papamichail, D., Georgiou, P., Papadimos, D. (2011). River discharge monitoring using a vertically moving side-looking acoustic Doppler profiler. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (79): 137-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2011.09.004
  37. Ampatzidis, Y.G., Vougioukas, S.G., Whiting, M.D. (2011).  A wearable module for recording worker position in orchards.  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (78): 222-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2011.07.011
  38. Sorensen, C.G., Pesonen, L., Bochtis, D.D., Vougioukas, S.G., Suomi, P.  (2011). Functional requirements for a future farm management information system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (76): 266–276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2011.02.005
  39. Moshou, D., Bravo, C., Oberti, R., West, J. S., Ramon, H., Vougioukas, S,  Bochtis, D. (2011).  Intelligent multi- sensor system for the detection and treatment of fungal diseases in arable crops. Biosystems Engineering 108(4): 311-321.
  40. Bochtis, D.D., Sørensen, C.G., Vougioukas, S.G. (2010). Path planning for in-field navigation-aiding of service units. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 74(1): 80-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2010.06.008
  41. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Griepentrog, H. (2009). A mission planner for an autonomous tractor. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 52(5), 1429-1440.
  42. Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S. (2009). Field experiments for evaluating the incorporation of RFID and Barcode registration and digital weighing technologies in manual fruit harvesting. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 10:63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2009.01.008
  43. Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S., Bochtis, D., Tsatsarelis, C. (2009). A yield mapping system for hand-harvested fruits based on RFID and GPS location technologies: field testing. Precision Agriculture, 10(1), 63-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11119-008-9095-8
  44. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S. (2008). Minimising the non-working distance travelled by machines operating in a headland field pattern. Biosystems Engineering 101(1), 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2008.06.008
  45. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Tsatsarelis, C., Ampatzidis, Y. (2007). Field Operation Planning for Agricultural Vehicles: A Hierarchical Modeling Framework. Agricultural Engineering International: the CIGR Ejournal. Manuscript PM 06 021. Vol. IX. February, 2007.
  46. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Tsatsarelis, C., Ampatzidis, Y. (2007). Optimal Dynamic Motion Sequence Generation for Multiple Harvesters. Agricultural Engineering International: the CIGR Ejournal. Manuscript ATOE 07 001. Vol. IX. July, 2007.
  47. Blackmore, S., Fountas, S., Vougioukas, S., Tang, L., Sørensen, C., Jørgensen, R. (2007). Decomposition of Agricultural Tasks into Robotic Behaviours. Agricultural Engineering International: the CIGR Ejournal. Manuscript PM 07 006. Vol. IX. October, 2007.
  48. Georgiou, P., Papamichail, D., Vougioukas, S. (2006). Optimal Irrigation Reservoir Operation and Simultaneous Multi-crop Cultivation Area Selection using Simulated Annealing. Irrigation and Drainage, 55:129-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ird.229
  49. Vougioukas, S., Blackmore, S., Nielsen, J., Fountas, S. (2006). A Two-Stage Optimal Motion Planner for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles. Precision Agriculture, 7(5): 361-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11119-006-9022-9
  50. Vougioukas S., Fountas, S., Blackmore, S. and Tang, L. (2005). Combining Reactive and Deterministic Behaviours for Mobile Agricultural Robots. Operational Research International Journal of the Hellenic Operational Research Society, 5.1:153-163, January-April 2005, ISSN: 1109-2858.
  51. Dimitriadis, A.N., Vougioukas, S.G., and Akritidis C.B.(2003). Energy Saving in Drying Plants by Partial Recovery of the Latent Heat.  Agricultural Engineering Reports for Southeastern Europe, Vol.9, No.1-4, pp. 9-19.
  52. Vougioukas S. (1997). Modeling, Implementation and Experimental Validation of a Simulated Force Sensor. European Journal of Mechanical Engineering (EJMEE), Vol. 42, No 4, Winter 1997 Issue, pp. 205-210.
  53. Hess, D., Park, S., Tangri, M., Vougioukas, S., Soom, A, Demjanenko, V., Acharya, R., Benenson, D., Wright, S. (1992). Noninvasive condition assessment and event timing for power circuit breakers. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Journal, 7(1): 353-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/61.108929
  54. Pitas I, Vougioukas, S. (1991). LMS Order Statistic Filters Adaptation by Back-propagation. Signal Processing, 25(3): 319-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-1684(91)90117-2

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