Publications

Journal papers, conference papers, preprints, and book chapters. Updated from Google Scholar in October 2026.

Journals Conferences Preprints Book chapters

Journals

  1. Villacrés, J., Brown, P. H., Jin, Y., Zarate-Valdez, J. L., Germani, M. A., Camargo, R., Vougioukas, S. G. (2027). Tree-level yield mapping for nut trees harvested with shake-catch harvesters, Part II: Uncertainty estimation and tree identification. Biosystems Engineering 273: 104605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2026.104605
  2. Villacrés, J., Brown, P. H., Jin, Y., Zarate-Valdez, J. L., Germani, M. A., Camargo, R., Vougioukas, S. G. (2026). Tree-level yield mapping for nut trees harvested with shake-catch harvesters – Part I: Yield monitoring and volume flow deconvolution. Biosystems Engineering 272: 104591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2026.104591
  3. Bhattarai, U., Arikapudi, R., Peng, C., Fennimore, S. A., Martin, F. N., Vougioukas, S. G. (2026). Precision yield estimation and mapping in manual strawberry harvesting with instrumented picking carts and a robust data processing pipeline. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 243: 111302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.111302
  4. Bhattarai, U., Arikapudi, R., Fennimore, S. A., Martin, F. N., Vougioukas, S. G. (2026). Data-driven worker activity recognition and efficiency estimation in manual fruit harvesting. Biosystems Engineering 261: 104326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2025.104326
  5. Zhu, Y., Vougioukas, S. G. (2026). Fast Scheduling and Trajectory Planning for Robotic Fruit Harvesters With Multiple Cartesian Arms. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 11(2): 1562-1569. https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2025.3643283
  6. Wei, P., Ragbir, P., Vougioukas, S. G., Kong, Z. (2025). Vision-based navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles in orchards: An imitation learning approach. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 238: 110802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.110802
  7. Montes de Oca, A., Magney, T., Vougioukas, S. G., Racano, D., Torrez-Orozco, A., Fennimore, S. A., Martin, F. N., Earles, M. (2025). Strawberry fruit yield forecasting using image-based time-series plant phenological stages sequences. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 237: 110516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.110516
  8. Fu, K., Zhu, Y., Frehner, E. H., Rizzo, K. T., Vougioukas, S. G., Bailey, B. N. (2025). Analysis of a dynamically adjustable multi-level soft fruit catching system design for mechanical harvesting. Smart Agricultural Technology 12: 101228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.101228
  9. Charlton, D., Devadoss, S., Gallardo, R. K., Luckstead, J., Vougioukas, S. (2025). Economic viability of robotic fruit harvesters to reduce large seasonal labor demands: Analysis of Gala and Honeycrisp apples. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 4(1): 70-87. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.70000
  10. Wei, P., Peng, C., Lu, W., Zhu, Y., Vougioukas, S., Fei, Z., Ge, Z. (2025). Efficient and Safe Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicle Headland Turning in Cluttered Orchard Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10(3): 2574-2581. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3534056
  11. Hua, W., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Liu, X., Huang, M., Igathinathane, C., Vougioukas, S., Saha, C. K., Mustafa, N., Salama, D. S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, M. (2025). Vacuum suction end-effector development for robotic harvesters of fresh market apples. Biosystems Engineering 249: 28-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2024.11.011
  12. Ali, D., de Castro, R., Ehsani, R., Vougioukas, S., Wei, P. (2025). Unlocking the potential of electric and hybrid tractors via sensitivity and techno-economic analysis. Applied Energy 377: 124545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124545
  13. Vougioukas, S., Karkee, M., Devadoss, S., Gallardo, R.K., Charlton, D. (2025). Mechanization efforts in fruit harvesting. Choices 40(2): 3-9. choicesmagazine.org
  14. Karkee, M., Vougioukas, S., Devadoss, S., Bhusal, S. (2025). Mechanization efforts in fruit tree pruning and thinning. Choices 40(2): 10-15. choicesmagazine.org
  15. Fu, K., Vougioukas, S. G., Bailey, B. N. (2024). Computer-aided design and optimization of a multi-level fruit catching system for fresh-market fruit harvesting. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 225: 109334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.109334
  16. Villacrés, J., Vougioukas, S. (2024). Assessing a multi-camera system to enhance fruit visibility for robotic harvesting in a V-trellised apple orchard. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 224: 109164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.109164
  17. Rui, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhang, M., Azizi, A., Igathinathane, C., Cen, H., Vougioukas, S., Li, H., Zhang, J., Jiang, Y., Jiao, X., Wang, M., Ampatzidis, Y., Oladele, O., Ghasemi-Varnamkhasti, M., Radi, R. (2024). High-throughput proximal ground crop phenotyping systems – A comprehensive review. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 224: 109108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.109108
  18. Peng, C., Wei, P., Fei, Z., Zhu, Y., Vougioukas, S. G. (2024). Optimization‐based motion planning for autonomous agricultural vehicles turning in constrained headlands. Journal of Field Robotics 41(6): 1984-2008. https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.22374
  19. Fei, Z., Vougioukas, S. G. (2024). A robotic orchard platform increases harvest throughput by controlling worker vertical positioning and platform speed. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 218: 108735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.108735
  20. Arikapudi, R., Vougioukas, S. G. (2023). Robotic Tree-fruit harvesting with arrays of Cartesian Arms: A study of fruit pick cycle times. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 211: 108023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.108023
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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.
  39. 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
  40. 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 .
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. 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.
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. 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
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. 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
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. 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.
  60. 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
  61. 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.
  62. 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
  63. 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
  64. 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
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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
  69. 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
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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
  74. 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

Conferences

  1. Zhu, Y., Lu, W., Ren, G., Gao, H., Vougioukas, S., Ying, Y., Peng, C. (2025). Optimal Scheduling of a Dual-Arm Robot for Efficient Strawberry Harvesting in Plant Factories. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 1231-1238. https://doi.org/10.1109/iros60139.2025.11246934
  2. Liao, T., Villacrés, J., Vougioukas, S. G. (2025). Improved Amodal Fruit Segmentation via Data Augmentation and Mask RCNN Head Modification. IFAC-PapersOnLine 59(23): 413-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.11.823
  3. Chen, Y., Wei, Z., Vougioukas, S. G., Gupta, S. K., Nguyen, Q. (2024). Autonomous Visual Navigation for Quadruped Robot in Farm Operation. 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE): 3518-3524. https://doi.org/10.1109/case59546.2024.10711780
  4. Chen, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, X., Racano, D., Vougioukas, S. G., Nguyen, Q., Gupta, S. K. (2024). Enhancing Efficiency of Human Pickers in Strawberry Harvesting With Quadruped Robots. ASME IDETC-CIE 2024, Volume 7: 48th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR): V007T07A045. https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2024-145753
  5. Zehfroosh, A., Kong, Z., Vougioukas, S. G. (2023). Efficient Re-synthesis of Control Barrier Function via Safe Exploration. 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC): 5625-5630. https://doi.org/10.1109/cdc49753.2023.10384242
  6. Tang, M., Sadowski, D., Chen, P., Vougioukas, S.G., Klever, B., Khasla, S., Brown, P., and Jin, Y. (2022), Tree-level Almond Yield Prediction from High-Resolution Aerial Images with Deep Learning. Oral presentation at 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL.
  7. Fu, K., Vougioukas, S.G., Bailey, B. (2022). Computer-aided design and optimization of a shake-catch soft fruit harvester. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Houston, Texas. Presentation # 2200344.
  8. Pueyo Svoboda, N., Vougioukas, S.G. (2022). Testing a combinatorial‐based melon harvesting scheduling algorithm on fruit orchard harvesting and the effects of varying the robot’s geometric configuration. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Houston, Texas. Presentation # 2200427.
  9. Peng, C., Fei, Z., Vougioukas, S.G. (2022). Depth camera based row-end detection and headland manuvering in orchard navigation without GNSS. In 2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), pp. 538-544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837270
  10. Avigal, Y., Deza, A., Wong, W., Oehme, S., Presten, M., Theis, M., … Vougioukas, S., & Goldberg, K. (2021). Learning Seed Placements and Automation Policies for Polyculture Farming with Companion Plants. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 902-908)
  11. Peng, C., Fei, Z., Vougioukas, S.G. (2021) Online Trajectory Generation for Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Robots in Orchards. ASABE 2021 International Meeting. Presentation 2100506
  12. Fei, Z., Peng, C., Vougioukas, S.G. (2021) Orchard SLAM Using Row Based Loop Closure and Skeleton Topological Row Map. ASABE 2021 International Meeting. Presentation 2100102
  13. Pueyo Svoboda, N., Vougioukas, S.G. (2021) Evaluation of a First-Come-First-Serve, Arm-to-Fruit Assignment Policy for a Multi-Armed Harvesting Robot in a Simulated Orchard Environment. Presentation 2100077
  14. Avigal, Y., Gao, J., Wong, W., Li, K., Pierroz, G., Deng, F. S., Vougioukas, S., Goldberg, K. (2020). Simulating Polyculture Farming to Tune Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation. In 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) (pp. 238-245). doi: 10.1109/CASE48305.2020.9216984 . BEST PAPER AWARD
  15. Chou, Hsiao-Yang, Khorsandi, F., Vougioukas, S.G. (2020). Developing and Testing a GPS-Based Steering Control System for an Autonomous All-Terrain Vehicle. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Omaha, Nebraska. Paper # 2000866
  16. Fei, Z., Silwal, A., Pothen, Z., Kantor, G., Vougioukas, S.G. (2020). Dynamic Height Control for Robotized Apple Orchard Harvest-aid Platform with Multiple Pickers to Achieve Optimal Picking Efficiency. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Omaha, Nebraska. Presentation #2000221
  17. Peng, C., Vougioukas, S.G. (2020). System-level description and evaluation of a robot-aided strawberry harvesting system. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Omaha, Nebraska. Presentation #2000446
  18. Wiggert, M., Amladi, L., Berenstein, R., Carpin, S., Viers, J., Vougioukas, S. and Goldberg, K. (2019). RAPID-MOLT: A Meso-scale, Open-source, Low-cost Testbed for Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation and Delivery. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2019), Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2019.8842877
  19. Thayer, T.C. and Vougioukas, S., (2019). Bi-Objective Routing for Robotic Irrigation and Sampling in Vineyards. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2019), Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2019.8842839
  20. Flécher, E., Durand-Petiteville, A., Gouaisbaut, F., Cadenat, V., Sentenac, T. and Vougioukas, S. (2019). Nonlinear Output Feedback for Autonomous U-turn Maneuvers of a Robot in Orchard Headlands. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, pages 355-362. https://doi.org/10.5220/0007918803550362
  21. Marinello, F., Bramley, R.G.V., Cohen, Y., Fountas, S., Guo, H., Karkee, M., Martínez-Casasnovas, J.A., Paraforos, D.S., Sartori, L., Sorensen, C.G., Stenberg, B., Sudduth, K., Tisseyre, B., Vellidis, V., Vougioukas, S.G. (2019). Agriculture and digital sustainability: a Digitization Footprint. In Precision agriculture’19 (pp. 4-18). Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-888-9
  22. Peng, C., Vougioukas, S.G. (2019). Scheduling performance of harvest-aiding crop-transport robots under varying earliness in access to transport-request predictions. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
  23. Arikapudi R., Vougioukas, S.G., (2018). Estimating the Fruit Picking Throughput of a Telescopic Arm in High Density Trellised Pear Orchards. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number # 1801684 , Detroit, Michigan.
  24. Seyyedhasani, H., Peng, C., Vougioukas, S.G., (2018). Efficient Dispatching of a Team of Harvest-aid Robots to Reduce Waiting Time for Human Pickers. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number # 1801715, Detroit, Michigan.
  25. Peng, C., Seyyedhasani, H., Vougioukas, S.G., (2018). Optimized predictive dispatching of robotic harvest-aids using Multiple Scenario Approach. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number # 1801694, Detroit, Michigan.
  26. 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. Paper #2527 in IEEE Int’l Conference on Intelligent Robots (IEOS 2018), Madrid, Spain.
  27. Arikapudi, R., Vougioukas, S. (2018). A Study on Pick-Cycle-Times of Robotic Multi-Arm Tree Fruit Harvesters. Intl. Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng 2018).
  28. Thayer, T., Vougioukas, S., Goldberg, K., Carpin, S. (2018). Multi-Robot Routing Algorithms for Robots Operating in Vineyards. IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2018), Munich, Germany. BEST PAPER AWARD
  29. Tseng, D., Wang, D., Chen, C., Miller, L., Viers, J., Song, W., Viers, J., Vougioukas, S., Carpin, S., Aparicio Ojea, J., Goldberg, K. (2018). Towards Automating Precision Irrigation: Deep Learning to Infer Local Soil Moisture Conditions from Synthetic Aerial Agricultural Images. IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2018), Munich, Germany.
  30. Thayer, T., Vougioukas, S., Goldberg, K., Carpin, S. (2018). Routing Algorithms for Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018).
  31. Fei, Z., Shepard, J., Vougioukas, S. (2017). Instrumented picking bag for measuring fruit weight during harvesting. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number 1701385. Spokane, Washington. http://doi:10.13031/aim.201701385
  32. Arikapudi R., Vougioukas, S.G., (2017). Linear Reachability of Fruits in Orchard Trees with Actuator Constraints. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number 1701421, Spokane, Washington. http://doi:10.13031/aim.201701421
  33. Wei-jiunn, J., Vougioukas, S.G. (2017). Evaluation of dynamic robot dispatching strategies using a strawberry-harvesting simulator. ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number 1701402. Spokane, Washington.
  34. Durand-Petiteville, A., Le Flecher, E., Cadenat, V., Vougioukas, S. (2017). Design of a Sensor-based Controller Performing U-turn to Navigate in Orchards. 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). Madrid, Spain. https://DOI:10.5220/0006478601720181
  35. Le Flecher, E., Durand-Petiteville, A., Cadenat, V., Sentenac, T., & Vougioukas, S. (2017). Implementation on a harvesting robot of a sensor-based controller performing a u-turn. In 2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM), (pp. 1-6). Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945895
  36. Gealy, D.V., McKinley, S., Guo, M., Miller, L., Vougioukas, S., Viers, J., Carpin, S. and Goldberg, K. (2016). DATE: A handheld co-robotic device for automated tuning of emitters to enable precision irrigation. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), (pp. 922-927). Fort Worth, TX, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2016.7743501
  37. Vougioukas, S., Arikapudi R., Munic, J. (2016). Upper Bound Estimates of Fruit Reachability in Orchard Trees using Linear Motion. Proceedings of the Intl. Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng – CIGR 2016), Paper 529, Aarhus, Denmark. http://conferences.au.dk/uploads/tx_powermail/vougioukas_paper_cigr_2016_.pdf
  38. Munic, J.P., Vougioukas, S.G., Arikapudi, R. (2016). A Study on Intercepting Falling Fruits with Canopy Penetrating Rods. 2016 ASABE Annual International Meeting. Paper Number 162456923, Orlando, Florida. http://doi:10.13031/aim.20162456923
  39. Khosro Anjom, F., Rehal, R., Vougioukas, S. (2015). A Low-Cost, Efficient Strawberry Yield Monitoring System. ASABE Annual Intl. Meeting; Paper Number 152189408, New Orleans, USA.
  40. Arikapudi, R., Vougioukas, S., Saracoglu, T. (2015). Orchard tree digitization for structural-geometrical modelling. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA), pp.: 329 – 336, Volcani Center, Israel.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-814-840
  41. Arikapudi, R., Vougioukas, S., Jimenez-Jimenez, F., Khosro Anjom, F., Elkins, R., Ingels, C. (2014). Design, error characterization and testing of a system to measure locations of fruits in tree canopies. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Sacramento, USA.
  42. Arikapudi, R., Durand-Petiteville, A., Vougioukas, S. (2014). Model-based assessment of robotic fruit harvesting cycle times. ASABE Annual Intl. Meeting; Paper Number 1913999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  43. Wei-jiunn, J., Lewis, G., Hoachuck, J., Slaughter, D., Wilken, K., Vougioukas, S. (2014). Vibration-reducing Path Tracking Control for a Strawberry Transport Robot. ASABE Annual Intl. Meeting; Paper Number 1914011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  44. Khosro Anjom, F., Rehal, R., Fathallah, F., Wilken, K., Vougioukas, S. (2014). Sensor-based Stooped Work Monitoring in Robot-aided Strawberry Harvesting. ASABE Annual Intl. Meeting; Paper Number 1913911, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  45. He, L., Arikapudi, R., Khosro Anjom, F., Vougioukas, S. (2014). Worker Position Tracking for Safe Navigation of Autonomous Orchard Vehicles Using Active Ranging. ASABE Annual Intl. Meeting; Paper Number 141913710, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  46. Vougioukas, S.G. (2013). Estimation of fruit locations inside orchard tree canopies using radio signal ranging and trilateration. ASABE Annual International Meeting Paper Number 1595170, Kansas City, Missouri.
  47. Anastassiu H., Fronimos, T., Regen, C., Vougioukas, S., Petrou, L., Zude, M. (2013). A Computational Model for Radio Wave Propagation within Wireless Sensor Networks in Orchard Environment. Paper C0137; Proceedings of the Intl. EFITA-WCCA-CIGR Conference “Sustainable Agriculture through ICT Innovation”, Turin, Italy.
  48. Vougioukas, S., Spanomitros, Y., Slaughter, D. (2012). Dispatching and Routing of Robotic Crop-transport Aids for Fruit Pickers using Mixed Integer Programming. ASABE Annual International Meeting Paper Number 21338247, Dallas, Texas.
  49. Vougioukas, S., Anastassiu H., Regen, C., Zude, M. (2012). Comparison of radio path loss models for wireless sensor networks in orchard environments. Proceedings of the Intl. Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng 2012), Paper C1078, Valencia, Spain.
  50. Ampatzidis, Y.G., Vougioukas, S.G., Whiting, M. (2011). Modeling Activities During Manual Fruit Harvesting: A Comparison of Processes in the U.S. and Greece. Annual Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences (ASHS), Hawai, USA.
  51. Ampatzidis, Y.G., Vougioukas, S.G., Whiting, M. (2011). Simulation of Bin Loading Process During Manual Harvest of Specialty Crops Using the Machine Repair Model. 5th HAICTA Intl. Conference on Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment, Skiathos, Greece.
  52. Vougioukas, S.G., Tsiakmakis, K. (2010). Communication of Position Information among Agents Working in Agricultural Fields Using Ad-Hoc ZigBee Networks. In: Proceedings of the Intl. Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng 2010), Paper #144, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
  53. Ampatzidis, Y.G., Vougioukas, S.G. (2010). An automated wearable system for real-time human position monitoring during manual fruit harvesting. In: Proceedings of the Intl. Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AgEng 2010), Paper #164.
  54. Vougioukas, S. (2009) Coordinated master-slave motion control for agricultural robotic vehicles. In: Proceedings of the 4th IFAC International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology, and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems, paper #703, Illinois, USA.
  55. Moshou, D., Bravo, C., Oberti, R., Bodria, L., Vougioukas, S., Ramon, H. (2009) Intelligent autonomous system for the detection and treatment of fungal diseases in arable crops. In: Proceedings of the Precision Agriculture Conference (Editors: E.J. van Henten, D. Goense and C. Lokhorstpp), pp.265-272, Wageningen, Netherlands.
  56. Vougioukas, S.G. (2009). A framework for motion coordination of small teams of agricultural robots. In: Proceedings of the Precision Agriculture Conference (Editors: E.J. van Henten, D. Goense and C. Lokhorstpp), pp.585-593, Wageningen, Netherlands.
  57. Fountas, S., Pedersen, S., Sorensen, C., Chatzinikos, A., Pesonen, L., Basso, B., Vougioukas, S., Nash, E., Gemtos, T., Blackmore, S. (2009). Management strategies and practices for precision agriculture operations. In: Proceedings of the Precision Agriculture Conference (Editors: E.J. van Henten, D. Goense and C. Lokhorstpp), pp. 893-898, Wageningen, Netherlands.
  58. Alexandridis, T.K., Topaloglou, C.A., Pardalis, I. , Tsakoumis, G., Vogiatzis, M., Andrianopoulos, A., Takavakoglou, V., Vougioukas, S., Bochtis, D. , Zalidis, G.C., Silleos, N.G. (2008). Monitoring indicators for mediterranean wetland and agricultural area using ALOS data. ALOS PI 2008 Symposium, Island of Rhodes, Code 76240.
  59. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Griepentrog, H., Andersen, N. (2008). Effects of Capacity Constraints on the Motion Pattern of an Autonomous Orchard Sprayer. In CD Proceedings of the International Conference on Agricultural Engineering 2008, Paper No. 1181505. Hersonissos, Crete – Greece.
  60. Ampatzidis, Y., Tzelepis, G., Vougioukas, S., Bochtis, D. (2008). A Low-cost Identification System for Yield Mapping during Manual Vine Harvesting. In CD Proceedings of the International Conference on Agricultural Engineering 2008, Paper No. 1155931. Hersonissos, Crete – Greece.
  61. Vougioukas, S., Papamichail, D., Georgiou, P., Chalkidis, I., Papadimos., D. (2008). Discharge Measurement via Depth Scanning with A Horizontal Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. In CD Proceedings of the International Conference on Agricultural Engineering 2008, Paper No. 1145704. Hersonissos, Crete – Greece.
  62. Vougioukas, S., Sigrimis., N. (2007). Coordinated Path Tracking for Teams of Agricultural Robotic Vehicles. IFAC Agricontrol 2007, pp. 165-170 Osijek, Croatia.
  63. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S. (2007). Machine Allocation for Agricultural Operations based on Simulation. IFAC Agricontrol 2007, pp. 147-152, Osijek, Croatia.
  64. Vougioukas S. (2007). Reactive Trajectory Tracking For Mobile Robots Based on Non Linear Model Predictive Control. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3074-3079, April 2007, Rome, Italy.
  65. Vougioukas, S., Sigrimis, N., Arvanitis, K. (2007). A Non Linear Model Predictive Tracking Controller for Agricultural Vehicles. European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece.
  66. Vougioukas S. (2007). Path Tracking Control for Autonomous Tractors with Reactive Obstacle Avoidance based on Evidence Grids. European Precision Farming Conference 2007, pp. 483-490, Skiathos, Greece.
  67. Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S., Bochtis, D., Tsatsarelis, C. (2007). A Yield Mapping System for Hand-Harvested Fruits based on RFID and GPS Localization Technologies. European Precision Farming Conference 2007, pp. 273-279, Skiathos, Greece.
  68. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Ampatzidis, Y., Tsatsarelis, C. (2007). On-line Coordination of Combines and Transport Carts during Harvesting Operations, European Precision Farming Conference 2007, pp. 715-721, Skiathos, Greece.
  69. Vougioukas, S. (2006). Reactive Path Tracking for Increased Safety and Robustness during Automatic Guidance. 3rd Automation Technology for Off-Road Equipment (ATOE) Conference, pp.183-189. Bonn, Germany.
  70. Bochtis, D. and Vougioukas, S. (2006). Optimal Dynamic Motion Sequence Generation for Multiple Harvesters, 3rd Automation Technology for Off-Road Equipment (ATOE) Conference, pp. 33-40. Bonn, Germany.
  71. Vougioukas, S., Sigrimis, N., Arvanitis, K., and Ambatzidis, Y. (2006). Nonlinear Model Predictive Path Tracking for Precision Guidance. 6th CIGR World Congress, Bonn Germany.
  72. Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S., Blackmore, S., and Bochtis, D. (2006). An Object-Oriented Asynchronous Kalman Filter with Outlier Rejection for Autonomous Tractor Navigation. 6th CIGR World Congress, Bonn Germany.
  73. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Tsatsarelis, K. (2006). A Vehicle Routing Problem Formulation of Agricultural Field Operations Planning for Self-Propelled Machines, 6th CIGR World Congress, Bonn Germany.
  74. Blackmore, S. Fountas, S., Gemtos, T., Vougioukas, S. (2006). EcoBots; Improved Energy Utilisation Trough Smaller Smarter Machines. 3rd IFAC International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems ( BIO-ROBOTICS III ), pp. 244-248. Sapporo, Japan.
  75. Rerras, N., Arvanitis, K., Vougioukas, S., Savvas, D., Sigrimis, N. (2006). A Multi-agent System for Integrated Crop Management of Greenhouse Production. 3rd IFAC International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems ( BIO-ROBOTICS III ), pp. 347-354. Sapporo, Japan.
  76. Pasgianos, G., Arvanitis, K., Vougioukas, S., Sigrimis, N. (2006). On-line Controller Design for High Speed Trajectory Tracking of Agricultural Vehicles. 3rd IFAC International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems (BIO-ROBOTICS III ), pp. 183-189. Sapporo, Japan.
  77. Bochtis, D., Vougioukas, S., Tsatsarelis, C., Ampatzidis, Y. (2006). System Architectures for Dynamic Planning and Coordination of Machines Performing Agricultural Operations. Intl. Conference on Information Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenvironment and Food Technology. Volos, Greece.
  78. Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S., Bochtis, D. (2006). A Decomposition Framework for the Autonomous Navigation of Agricultural Vehicles. Intl. Conference on Information Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenvironment and Food Technology. Volos, Greece.
  79. Vougioukas, S. (2005). Optimal Kinodynamic Planning For Autonomous Vehicles. 5th International Conference on Technology and Automation, pp. 166-171, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  80. Vougioukas, S. , Blackmore, S., Nielsen, J., Fountas, S. (2004). A Two-Stage Route Planning System for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, Uppsala, Sweden.
  81. Vougioukas S. (2005). Optimization of Robot Paths Computed by Randomized Planners. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2160-2165, Barcelona, Spain.
  82. Vougioukas S. (2004). Near-Optimal Path Planning for Autonomous Tractors. Proceedings of the International Agricultural Engineering Conference (AgEng), Leuven, Belgium.
  83. Blackmore B. S., Fountas S., Vougioukas S., Tang L., Sørensen C. G., Jørgensen R. (2004). A method to define agricultural robot behaviours”, Conference Proceedings of Automation Technology for Off-road Equipment (ATOE 2004), pp. 155-161, eds. Q. Zhang, M. Iida, A. Mizushima. ASAE Pub #701P1004.
  84. Georgiou P., Vougioukas S., Papamichail S., (2004). Optimal Operation of an Irrigation Reservoir and Multi-Crop Cultivation Area Selection using a Stochastic Optimization Technique. Proceedings of the International Agricultural Engineering Conference (AgEng), Leuven, Belgium.
  85. Vougioukas S., Sapounas, A. (2004). Greenhouse Transmissivity Computations Based on A Global Radiation Transfer Model. Proceedings of the International Symposium Greensys, September 2004, Leuven, Belgium. Also in Acta Hort. (ISHS) 691:741-748.
  86. Vougioukas S., (2004). Multi-spectrum Global Illumination Computation For Greenhouse Applications. 2nd HAICTA Intl. Conference on Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment, Vol. 1, pp. 47-56, Thessaloniki Greece
  87. Vougioukas S., Fountas, S., Blackmore, S. and Tang, L. (2004). Combining Reactive and Deterministic Behaviours for Mobile Agricultural Robots. 2nd HAICTA Intl. Conference on Information Systems & Innovative Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment, Vol. 2, pp.55-64, Thessaloniki Greece.
  88. Vougioukas S. Dimitriadis, A., and Akritidis C. (2003). Dynamic Modeling and Control of an Energy Recovery System in Drying. Proceedings of the Symposium EUDrying03, pp. 104-111, Heraklion, Crete.
  89. Vougioukas, S. (2001). Bias Estimation and Gravity Compensation for Force-Torque Sensors. 3rd WSEAS Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering, Athens, Greece. Post-conference Book “Recent Advances in Simulation, Computational Methods and Soft Computing”, WSEAS Press, pp 82-85.
  90. Vougioukas, S. (2001). Efficient Implementation of Force Queries For Compliant Robot Motion”: 3rd WSEAS Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering, Athens, Greece. Post-conference Book “Recent Advances in Simulation, Computational Methods and Soft Computing”, WSEAS Press, pp 77-81.
  91. Vougioukas, S., Roumeliotis, M. (2001) A System for Basic-Level Network Fault Management Based on the GSM Short Message Service (SMS). IEEE Region 8-EUROCON’2001 Intl. Conference on Trends in Communications, Vol.1, pp 218-222, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
  92. Vougioukas, S. (1999). Path Planning based on Accelerated Simulated Annealing of an Artificial Potential Field. Proceedings of the IMACS Intl. Conf., CSCC’1999, pp. 3091-3099, Athens, Greece.
  93. Vougioukas, S. (1996). Modeling, Implementation and Experimental Validation of a Simulated Force Sensor. Proceedings of the 1996 Intl. Symp. on Measurements & Control in Robotics, p. 89-95, Brussels, Belgium.
  94. Vougioukas, S., Gottschlich, S. (1995). Compliance Synthesis for Force Guided Assembly. Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, V.1, pp. 976-981, Nagoya, Japan.
  95. Vougioukas, S., Gottschlich, S. (1994). Synthesis and Verification of Compliance Mappings via Monte-Carlo Simulation. Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Publication DSC 55-1, pp. 243-248, Chicago, USA.
  96. Vougioukas, S., Gottschlich, S. (1993). Automatic Synthesis and Verification of Compliance Mappings. Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, v.1, p. 491-496, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  97. Noninvasive condition assessment and event timing for power circuit breakers», co-author with Daniel Hess, et.al, in the IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, San Diego, California, July 28 – August, 1991, Paper No. 91 SM380-6 PWRD. (selected also for Journal – Νο. 6)
  98. Hess, D.P.; Park, S.Y.; Tangri, M.K.; Vougioukas, S.G.; Soom, A.; Demjanenko, V.; Acharya, R.S.; Benenson, D.M.; Wright, S.E., (1991). Timing Analysis of Vibration Bursts by Selective Average Filtering. Third Int’l. Machine Monitoring Diagnostics Conference, Las Vegas, USA.
  99. Pitas I, Vougioukas S. (1990). Adaptive nonlinear filters based on order statistics. In:Proc EUSPIC90, Barcelona,Spain, pp.397-400. Also in the Book: Signal Processing V: Theories and Applications, p. 397-400, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1990. (ISBN 0444886362).

Preprints

  1. Inukollu, V., Zaman, A., Kudaraya, A., Lazcano, C., Zhu, Y., Vougioukas, S., Yu, X. (2026). From Vision to Harvest: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Multi-Arm Robotic Fruit Harvesting. arXiv:2609.13606. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13606
  2. Peng, C., Ge, Z., Lu, W., Gao, H., Vougioukas, S., Wei, P. (2026). EXACT-MPPI: Exact Signed-Distance Navigation for Arbitrary-Footprint Robots from Point Clouds via Path Integral Control. arXiv:2605.29663. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29663
  3. Wei, P., Peng, C., Vougioukas, S. (2026). Neural Distance-Guided Path Integral Control for Tractor-Trailer Navigation. arXiv:2605.09939. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09939
  4. Fu, K., Wei, P., Villacrés, J., Kong, Z., Vougioukas, S.G., Bailey, B.N. (2023). Fusion-driven tree reconstruction and fruit localization: Advancing precision in agriculture. arXiv:2310.15138. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15138

Book chapters

  1. “Advanced Automation for Tree Fruit Orchards and Vineyards”, Stavros G. Vougioukas, Qin Zhang, Editors. Springer, 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-26940-0. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26941-7
  2. Zhang, Z., Stavros, V. (2023). Harvest-Aid Orchard Platforms. In: Zhang, Q. (eds) Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89123-7_151-1
  3. “The use of intelligent/autonomous systems in crop irrigation”, Stefano Carpin, Kenneth Yigael Goldberg, Stavros Vougioukas, Josh Viers, Robotics and automation for improving agriculture, Burleigh Dodds, 2019. https://doi.org/10.19103/AS.2019.0056.11
  4. “Positioning and Navigation”, H.V. Griepentrog, S.B. Blackmore and S.G. Vougioukas, CIGR Handbook, Vol. 6, Chapter 4.2 (Mechatronics and Applications), pp. 195–204. Volume editor, Alex Munack. ASABE, St. Joseph, Michigan, 2006. ISBN 1-892769-54-9.
  5. “Design and modelling approaches for advanced agricultural fleet management systems”, D.D. Bochtis, C.G. Sørensen, S.G. Vougioukas. Chapter 8 in Agricultural and Environmental Informatics, Governance, and Management: Emerging Research Applications. Editors: Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Basil Manos, Nico Polman, Davide Viaggi. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2011, pp. 152–171. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-621-3.ch008