George Adamides

Agricultural Research Institute Cyprus · Rural Development

Introduction of automation into agriculture has lowered production costs, reduced the drudgery of tedious manual labor, increased the level of accuracy of mechanized operations, raised the level of quality of fresh produce, and improved environmental control. Unlike industrial applications that often deal with relatively simple, repetitive, well-de...

Despite intensive R&D on agricultural robotics in the past decade, implementation of agricultural robotics remains limited due to the complex unstructured agricultural environment that confines performance. A possible way to increase performance is by human-robot collaboration (HRC) approaches for agricultural tasks and applications. The first cont...

GR: Οι πατατοπαραγωγοί χρειάζονται τρόπους για να βελτιώσουν το επίπεδο βιωσιμότητάς τους, αυξάνοντας ή/και διατηρώντας την παραγωγικότητά τους και την ποιότητα των προϊόντων τους, χωρίς να υποβαθμίζουν το περιβάλλον και να θέτουν σε κίνδυνο την ανθρώπινη υγεία. Απάντηση στις παραπάνω προκλήσεις δύναται να δώσει η υιοθέτηση τεχνολογιών έξυπνης γεωρ...

The meat supply chain in Cyprus. Poster presented at 1ο Συνέδριο «Αγροτική ανάπτυξη: Από την έρευνα στην πράξη»

Consumer adoption of online grocery shopping has been gradually increasing over the past two decades. This article examines the factors that influence adoption of online grocery shopping in relation to the socioeconomic characteristics of the typical adopter profile in Cyprus. Using data from 302 respondents of an online questionnaire, a representa...

The e-poster "Climate change impacts mitigation using protective nets and IoT technologies in mountainous Mediterranean cherry orchards: Cyprus as a case study" was presented at the HAICTA 2022 conference that was held in Athens, Greece on September 22-25, 2022.

The agri-food sector in Cyprus has high potential in the production of fresh fruits and nuts, which are cultivated, due to climatic requirements, in the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas of Troodos, covering the central part of the island. Restrictive social, economic and environmental factors are leading to a steady decline in agricultural pr...

Η αλυσίδα εφοδιασμού τροφίμων (ΑΕΤ) περιλαμβάνει διάφορους εμπλεκόμενους φορείς, γεγονότα και στάδια παραγωγής, ξεκινώντας από την πρωτογενή παραγωγή έως τη μεταποίηση, το εμπόριο, τη συσκευασία, τη διανομή και την τελική κατανάλωση. Λόγω των σημαντικών διαφορών στη διαπραγματευτική ισχύ των εμπλεκόμενων φορέων, η ΑΕΤ είναι ιδιαίτερα ευάλωτη σε αθέ...

Preliminary results were presented today in 20th International Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology.

Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) between businesses in the food supply chain have significant impacts on the various stakeholders involved, as well as on the environment. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no attempt has been made at the Member State level for the identification of UTPs in the food supply chain and their impact on the involved s...

Round-table discussion is an exchange among all EU Member States on current and planned activities as well as strategies with respect to the digitalisation in agriculture

Smart farming based on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies enables crop farmers to collect real-time data related to irrigation and plant protection processes, aiming to increase production volume and improve product quality, predict diseases, while optimizing resources and farming processes. Digital Ecosystem Utilisation - (in short CYSLOP) is a...

Οι Αθέμιτες Εμπορικές Πρακτικές (ΑθΕΠ) μεταξύ των επιχειρήσεων στην αλυσίδα εφοδιασμού τροφίμων έχουν σημαντικές επιπτώσεις σε όλους τους εμπλεκόμενους φορείς (παραγωγούς, φορείς εμπορίας, καταναλωτές), αλλά και στο περιβάλλον (π.χ. σπατάλη τροφίμων). Ωστόσο, απ’ όσα γνωρίζουμε, δεν έχει γίνει μέχρι σήμερα καμία προσπάθεια σε επίπεδο Κράτους Μέλους...

This study presents the heuristic evaluation, as a usability inspection method for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems. First, the methodology to engineer a semi-autonomous agricultural robot sprayer is presented, and then findings from heuristic usability evaluation studies that were carried out on a human-robot interface for a semi-autonomous a...

Climate-smart agriculture is an approach for developing agricultural strategies to modernize agricultural systems using digital techniques, aiming for sustainable agriculture and ensuring food security under climate change. This article provides a systematic literature review of smart agriculture technologies towards climate-smart agriculture in Cy...

Smart farming based on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies enables crop farmers to collect real-time data related to irrigation and plant protection processes, aiming to increase production volume, improve product quality and predict diseases, while optimizing resources and farming processes. IoT devices can collect vast amount of environmental,...

Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) between businesses in the food supply chain have a significant impact on the various stakeholders involved, and on the environment. So far, no attempt has been made at the Member State level for the identification of UTPs in the food supply chain and their impact on the relevant stakeholders. This study drew on this...

Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) between businesses in the food supply chain have a significant impact on the various stakeholders involved, and on the environment. So far, no attempt has been made at the Member State level for the identification of UTPs in the food supply chain and their impact on the relevant stakeholders. This study drew on this...

This presentation "Use of IoT technologies for irrigation and plant protection: the case for Cypriot fruits and vegetables ", was delivered during the EFITA-HAICTA-WCCA Congress that took place in Rhodes island on June 28, 2019

Presentation of CYSLOP project at the EFITA-HAICTA-WCCA 2019 Congress

Raw data, Cypriot farmers' access to information

This presentation was delivered during the event "Innovative collaboratios in agri-tech. The event was organized by the Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE).

Βασικός στόχος της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν η διερεύνηση των απόψεων και αντιλήψεων των Κυπρίων αγροτών, καθώς και του προσωπικού των Γεωργικών Εφαρμογών, σχετικά με την πιθανότητα δημιουργίας πλατφόρμας ηλεκτρονικής μάθησης αγροτών. Για την επίτευξη του στόχου, εφαρμόστηκε παράλληλα ποσοτική και ποιοτική έρευνα (συνδυαστική ερευνητική μέθοδος). Από τ...

Βασικός στόχος της μελέτης αυτής ήταν η αξιολόγηση της ραδιοφωνικής εκπομπής «Ώρα της Υπαίθρου» ως πηγής αγροτικής πληροφόρησης και η εξέταση της σχέσης που υπάρχει μεταξύ συγκεκριμένων κοινωνικοοικονομικών χαρακτηριστικών και της ακροαματικότητας. Από την ανάλυση διαφάνηκε ότι το 78% των αγροτών γνωρίζει για την ύπαρξη της συγκεκριμένης εκπομπής κ...

The goal of this study was to evaluate a radio program as a source of agricultural information and examine the relationship between specific socioeconomic characteristics and listenership. The findings revealed that half of the farmers listen to the radio program, while older farmers are more likely to be listeners. Moreover, there are no significa...

SmartFarmer project (http://www.smartfarmerproject.eu/) has been recognized by the European Commission as a Good Practice Example and Success Story. This is a factsheet created for dissemination purposes available for download at http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details-page/?nodeRef=workspace://SpacesStore/6cbdf73...

This article presents the design aspects and development processes to transform a general purpose mobile robotic platform into a semi-autonomous agricultural robot sprayer focusing on user interfaces for teleoperation. The hardware and the software modules that must be installed onto the system are described, with particular emphasis on human–robot...

Teleoperation of an agricultural robotic system requires effective and efficient human-robot interaction. This paper investigates the usability of different interaction modes for agricultural robot teleoperation. Specifically, we examined the overall influence of two types of output devices (PC screen, head mounted display), two types of peripheral...

This article presents the most recent contributions to the field of agricultural robotics, with a focus on robot sprayers. The objective is to demonstrate the latest developments, specifically on robot sprayer systems for precision spraying (e.g. for weed control). The summary of the review shows that feasibility has been demonstrated in a number o...

SmartFarmer Project (http://www.smartfarmerproject.eu/): Success Story and Good Practice Example

Αναγνωρίζοντας την σημασία της ενημέρωσης των αγροτών μέσω ραδιοφώνου και λαμβάνοντας υπόψη ότι παρόμοια έρευνα είχε διεξαχθεί ξανά πριν 26 χρόνια, το Τμήμα Γεωργίας, σε συνεργασία με το Ινστιτούτο Γεωργικών Ερευνών (ΙΓΕ) προχώρησαν στη διεξαγωγή της έρευνας. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, κρίθηκε αναγκαίο όπως πραγματοποιηθεί ποσοτική έρευνα με γενικότερο στόχ...

Διαδικτυακές εφαρμογές που έχει αναπτύξει το Ινστιτούτο Γεωργικών Ερευνών

George Adamides. PhD viva voce. The presentation is on ”User Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction: Application on a Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Robot Sprayer”

This dissertation focuses on the usability of user interfaces for tele-operated and tele-manipulated mobile robots, with an application on a semi-autonomous agricultural robot sprayer. Semi-autonomous operation of agricultural robots is proposed including a framework for its levels of autonomy. In this case, the robot, in addition to whatever pre-p...

Semi-autonomous tele-operation of an agricultural robotic system could help to effectively manage the complexity and performance limitations that current autonomous robots face due to the dynamic and unstructured agricultural environment. Semi-autonomous tele-operation implies the existence of a user interface that supports human-robot interaction...

The SmartFarmer project aims to improve the skills and competences of people in the agricultural sector by introducing a training programme in Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Spain and Portugal while at the same time encouraging rural development in project countries in particular and Europe in general. The project is based on the transfer of the results o...

Το ηλεκτρονικό εκπαιδευτικό υλικό αποτελείται από 3 κεφάλαια όπου δίνονται βασικές πληροφορίες για τον Στρατηγικό Σχεδιασμό και το Μάρκετινγκ "έξυπνων" αγρο-τροφίμων, για τη Βιολογική / Οικολογική Γεωργία και για τα Συστήματα Ποιότητας. Το εκπαιδευτικό υλικό χωρίζεται σε 11 συνοπτικές ενότητες. Κάθε ενότητα περιλαμβάνει θεωρία, μελέτες περίπτωσης,...

This paper presents a taxonomy of design guidelines for robot teleoperation developed from a focused literature review of robot teleoperation. A list of user interface design guidelines was assembled, open card sorting and a focus group were used to classify them, and closed card sorting was employed to validate and further refine the proposed taxo...

Το κινητό τηλέφωνο αποτελεί, ίσως, την πιο διαδεδομένη Τεχνολογία Πληροφορικής και Επικοινωνιών στον αγροτικό κόσμο. Αυτό πιθανόν να οφείλεται στις πολλαπλές δυνατότητες που παρέχει με σχετικά χαμηλό κόστος, όπως η μεταφορά πληροφοριών μέσω φωνής, εικόνας και βίντεο. Στόχος της εργασίας είναι η παρουσίαση του κινητού τηλεφώνου ως μέσο μεταφοράς πλη...

Agricultural robots can tackle harsh working conditions and hardness of work, as well as the shortage of laborers that is a bottleneck to agricultural production. Such robots exist, but they are not yet widespread. We believe that the limited usage of robotics in agriculture could be related to the fact that the mainstream direction for robotics in...

Introducing semi-automatic teleoperation of an agricultural robotic system can enable improved erformance, overcoming the complexity that current autonomous robots face due to the dynamic and unstructured agriculture environment. A teleoperated robot can both leverage the farmers’ knowledge and experience while keeping them safe and also help the r...

This work focuses on the development of a user interface suitable for targeted spraying, using a robot that is teleoperated along the vineyard rows. A prototype of the spraying interface was developed and the usability of three different interaction modes was investigated. Fifty participants were asked to use the three devices to select grape clust...

It is widely accepted that the usage of the personal computer and the Internet can improve efficiency in the agricultural sector. Despite the fact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have evolved rapidly, the farmers are lagging behind in the use of ICTs. This study examines the factors that affect the usage of personal computers...

The aim of this paper is to reveal the current situation regarding the use of mobile phones as a mean of information sharing by Cypriot farmers. In particular, a project at the Agricultural Research Institute is underway, to survey methods currently used for agricultural information and knowledge sharing, to determine the level of satisfaction of t...

Opening up the access to scientific information is an increasing demand and crucial need for researchers and also for all citizens, communities and societies: VOA3R, the European initiative for the Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository, has established the online platform connecting digital libraries and facilitating virtual comm...

Το άρθρο αυτό εξετάζει τους παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν τη χρήση του Η/Υ και του διαδικτύου από τους Κύπριους παραγωγούς, χρησιμοποιώντας δεδομένα από 526 γεωργούς και κτηνοτρόφους που επιλέχθηκαν με τη μέθοδο της τυχαίας στρωματοποιημένης δειγματοληψίας. Χρησιμοποιούνται μοντέλα logit για να εξεταστούν τα κοινωνικοοικονομικά χαρακτηριστικά των Κυπρί...

Introducing semi-automatic teleoperation of an agricultural robotic system can enable improved performance overcoming the complexity that current autonomous robots face due to the dynamic and unstructured agriculture environment. This requires design of a human-robot interface. A user interface for a vineyard robotic sprayer was implemented includi...

Scholarly content is nowadays exposed through a diversity of systems implementing different workflows and metadata schemes. The integration of such systems thus requires a previous phase of analysis that uncovers the differences as a first step towards their integration. This paper describes an experience report on doing such an analysis for five d...

This paper focuses on a specific aspect of shopping; grocery shopping. Grocery shopping is an essential and routine type of consumer behavior, which over the last few decades has undergone major changes due to the rapid evolution of technology. E-grocery is the new form of grocery shopping, which allows consumers to order products via the Internet...

Today technology is rapidly escalating through innumerable sectors and one of those sectors is Agriculture. In recent years Organic Agriculture (OA) experienced a significant expansion throughout many countries. OA in Cyprus is a new trend and through time more and more people are attracted towards food which is organic. Currently agricultural agen...