Kostas Arvanitis

Verified

Kostas verified their affiliation via an institutional email.

Learn more

Verified

Kostas verified their affiliation via an institutional email.

Learn more

• PhD in Control and Automation - Full Professor
• Professor (Full) at Agricultural University of Athens

Agriculture has undergone progressive transformations using ever-evolving technologies to increase productivity and profitability. A new approach to agricultural management based on concepts from the fourth industrial revolution is being gradually adopted. It aims to increase agricultural productivity while minimizing inputs and pollutants. Quantum...

Resource management in agriculture is considered a pivotal issue because greenhouse farming and agriculture-related activities generate about 10–29% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. The problem of high greenhouse gas emissions is still unresolved due to the rapid expansion of arable land to meet global food demand. The purpose of this system...

As human labour is limited and therefore expensive, computer vision has emerged as a solution with encouraging results for monitoring and sorting tasks in the agri-food sector, where conventional methods for inspecting fruit browning that are generally subjective, time-consuming, and costly. Thus, this study investigated the application of computer...

The chapter comprises six sections. Following the introduction is the intelligent or smart sensors and IoT section, which discusses sensing components, processing methods, communication solutions, acting components, nature-inspired approaches, and energy footprint. The third section is the application of smart sensors in robotics, which discusses r...

This study sheds light on the performance of the common high-precision electromagnetic sensor TEROS 10 to estimate volumetric soil water content (θ) from dry to saturation across three different substrates, six different soil types having three different levels of electrical conductivity of soil solutions (ECw), and in liquids with increasing salin...

Efficiently reporting soil-specific information is of key importance for plant growth but can be quite demanding as well. Indeed, it may require expensive digitizers, subscriptions to services for communication links between each sensor and the cloud, and the incorporation of power-hungry elements. Added to this, soil sensors may vary drastically,...

The rapid evolution of mechatronics has revealed new paths to development automated solutions that help to enhance efficiency and sustainability in the agri-food sector. The combination of engineering, electronics and information technology allows the creation of systems that not only take over complex processes, but also to adapt to the needs of m...

The primary aim of this study was to explore cybersecurity threats in agriculture 4.0 and 5.0, as well as possible mitigation strategies. A secondary method was employed involving narrative review in which many studies on cybersecurity were sampled and analyzed. The study showed that the main risks that increase cybersecurity threats to agricultura...

The primary aim of this study was to explore cybersecurity threats in agriculture 4.0 and 5.0, as well as possible mitigation strategies. A secondary method was employed involving narrative review in which many studies on cybersecurity were sampled and analyzed. The study showed that the main risks that increase cybersecurity threats to agricultura...

Hyperspectral imaging has proven to be a reliable technique for estimating dry matter, a common variable when considering the quality of the fresh produce. However, developing models capable of generalising across different crops is challenging. In this study, several pipelines were explored towards achieving a robust and accurate generic regressio...

This study focuses on investigating the accuracy of the empirical equations proposed by the manufacturing company for the widely used TEROS 10 and TEROS 12 sensors. Specifically, the study examines whether the raw - unprocessed - measurements provided by the two sensors lead to reliable predictions of soil moisture and electrical conductivity value...

Rapid growth of the electronics industry resulted in a plethora of innovative and cheap devices, while fluent documentation and user-friendly programming environments are available for them. Modern educational systems worldwide have exploited this situation by incorporating practices reflecting this progress, under the STEM umbrella. Remarkable pro...

Recent advances in electronics industry resulted in numerous, amazing and cheap devices, while fluent documentation and efficient, user-friendly programming environments are available for them. Modern educational systems worldwide have exploited this dynamic by including in their didactic curricula practices reflecting this progress, under the STEM...

The increased use of plastics in industrial and agricultural applications has led to high levels of pollution worldwide and is a significant challenge. To address this plastic pollution, conventional methods such as landfills and incineration are used, leading to further challenges such as the generation of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, incr...

Considering that the fusion of education and technology has delivered encouraging outcomes, things are becoming more challenging for higher education as students seek experiences that bridge the gap between theory and their future professional roles. Giving priority to the above issue, this study presents methods and results from activities assisti...

In this work, the performance of the TEROS 12 electromagnetic sensor, which measures volumetric soil water content (θ), bulk soil electrical conductivity (σb), and temperature, is examined for a number of different soils, different θ and different levels of the electrical conductivity of the soil solution (ECW) under laboratory conditions. For the...

The continuous growth of the urban electric vehicles market and the rapid progress of the electronics industry create positive prospects towards fostering the development of autonomous robotic solutions for covering critical production sectors. Agriculture can be seen as such, as its digital transformation is a promising necessity for protecting th...

Polymeric materials degrade as they react with environmental conditions such as temperature , light, and humidity. Electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's ultraviolet rays weakens the mechanical properties of polymers, causing them to degrade. This study examined the phenomenon of polymer aging due to exposure to ultraviolet radiation. The study e...

Considering the degradation of water resources and the increase in human population, desalination seems to be a promising method for meeting the global water demand, from potable water to plant irrigation needs. The contribution of desalination to the agricultural sector, through the supply of water for plants or animals, is critical because this s...

The potential application of the digital twins concept and its principles to all industries, including agriculture, has recently been the subject of considerable research interest. Since livestock farming is one of the mainstays of the agricultural industry, contributing to food security as well as employment and income generation, digital twins ap...

Περιλαμβάνει το ποιητικό μου έργο για το έτος 2023

The purpose of this paper is to mention the overall scientific needs and provocation of the Quantum Theory, but also the stages that led to its formation (whereas there is rich literature). Moreover, we demonstrate and innovate toward providing the basic principles aiming to give meaning and context to what the title of this work includes, and that...

The focus of this review paper was to investigate innovations currently employed to capture and use greenhouse gases produced within livestock farms for energy production and expected future directions. The methods considered for data collection regarded a systematic review of the literature , where 50 journal articles were critically reviewed. The...

The modern era of green transportation based on Industry 4.0 is leading the automotive industry to focus on the electrification of all vehicles. This trend is affected by the massive advan- tages offered by electric vehicles (EV), such as pollution-free, economical and low-maintenance cost operation. The heart of this system is the electric motor p...

The new era of the energy sector has already begun, and therefore, new challenges need to be tackled. A major challenge that residential distribution grids are going to encounter with the integration of photovoltaic (PV) panels and electric vehicles (EVs) is the unsynchronized new demand and the time-limited production of distributed generation, in...

The digital transformation of agriculture is a promising necessity for tackling the increasing nutritional needs on Earth and the degradation of natural resources. Toward this direction, the availability of innovative electronic components and of the accompanying software programs can be exploited to detect malfunctions in typical agricultural equi...

70 Στιχουργήματα βγαλμένα απ΄την πένα μου στα 2022

The article reviewed the four major Bioinspired intelligent algorithms for agricultural applications, namely ecological, swarm-intelligence-based, ecology-based, and multi-objective algorithms. The key emphasis was placed on the variants of the swarm intelligence algorithms, namely the artificial bee colony (ABC), genetic algorithm, flower pollina...

The digital transformation of agriculture is a promising necessity for tackling the increasing nutritional needs of the population on Earth and the degradation of natural resources. Focusing on the “hot” area of natural resource preservation, the recent appearance of more efficient and cheaper microcontrollers, the advances in low-power and long-ra...

Biomimetics is the interdisciplinary cooperation of biology and technology that offers solutions to practical problems by analyzing biological systems and transferring their principles into applications. This review article focused on biomimetic innovations, including bio-inspired soft robots and swarm robots that could serve multiple functions, in...

The rapid growth of the electronics industry resulted in numerous, amazing and cheap devices, while fluent documentation and user-friendly programming environments are available for them. Modern educational systems worldwide have exploited this dynamic by including in their didactic curricula innovative practices that are usually called STEM action...

Long Range (LoRa) systems have recently attracted significant attention within the research community as well as for commercial use due to their ability to transmit data over long distances at a relatively low energy cost. In this study, new results for the bit error rate performance of Long Range (LoRa) systems operating in the presence of Rayleig...

The role of Internet-of-Things (IoT) in precision agriculture and smart greenhouses has been reinforced by recent R&D projects, growing commercialization of IoT infrastructure, and related technologies such as satellites, artificial intellige nce, sensors, actuators, uncrewed aerial vehicles, big data analytics, intelligent machines, and radio-freq...

In pace with the fast evolving conditions in the agricultural area, this research work presents a set of easily-applicable, experimental techniques forming lightweight tools for modifying and evaluating the performance of radio modules that are based on the promising LoRa protocol, mainly in terms of radio coverage, energy consumption and packet lo...

There is a growing need for remote identification of the crop types, which is a serious issue for policy makers and statistical accountants (i.e., agricultural inspectors and government agencies), for verifying the degree of validity of the information concerning the area and the type of each crop being cultivated. In this work, remote Sentinel-2 i...

People getting involved with modern agriculture should become familiar with and able to exploit the plethora of cutting-edge technologies that have recently appeared in this area. The contribution of the educational robotics in demystifying new scientific fields for K-12 students is remarkable, but things become more challenging when trying to disc...

Inevitably, the rapid growth of the electronics industry and the wide availability of tailored programming tools and support are accelerating the digital transformation of the agricultural sector. The latter transformation seems to foster the hopes for tackling the depletion and degradation of natural resources and increasing productivity in order...

The growing demand for food supplies, caused by the global population growth, and the continuously diminishing natural resources are posing many serious challenges. Furthermore, the economic and social uncertainty and the restrictions incurred by the recent COVID-19 pandemic are favouring the research for further fruit harvesting alternatives. The...

Ποιητικές δημιουργίες μου γραμμένες στο διάστημα Οκτώβριος-Δεκέμβριος 2021.

The examination of recent developments and future perspectives on smart and solar greenhouse covers is significant for commercial agriculture given that traditional greenhouse relied on external energy sources and fossil fuels to facilitate lighting, heating and forced cooling. The aim of this review article was to examine smart and solar materials...

The expected significant growth in global electricity demand, followed by the adoption of green energy sources, led to the modernization of the energy distribution grids, such as the development of microgrids that can improve the reliability of the electric power system. Meanwhile, the increased integration of electric vehicles is expected to have...

The recent developments in electronics have made available a variety of systems at very appealing quality, cost and size levels. These conditions are not left unexploited by modern agriculture that seeks to tackle the increased global food demand and the degradation of available resources. Indeed, the precision agriculture sector is flourishing ass...

During the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in many areas of the world, as the infection spreads through person-to-person contact. Transmission and prognosis, once infected, are potentially influenced by many factors, including indoor air pollution. Particulate Matter (PM) is a complex mixture of solid and/or liquid pa...

Artificial intelligence applications in fire safety of agricultural structures have practical economic and technological benefits on commercial agriculture. The FAO estimates that wildfires result in at least USD 1 billion in agriculture-related losses due to the destruction of livestock pasture, destruction of agricultural buildings, premature dea...

Since the very early beginning of the mankind history, any great difficulty, like wars or diseases, had to be a challenge for progress and innovation, otherwise the game was lost. In this regard, the recent COVID-19 pandemic provides to the learners' and teachers' community a great opportunity to better adapt and enrich their educational practices....

Περιλαμβάνει 11 ποιήματα γραμμένα την παράξενη, την επισφαλή άνοιξη τούτης της χρονιάς...

During the last years, a wide variety of credit card-sized computer systems have appeared, systems characterized by continuously diminishing cost and size and plenty of features. The boost in the electronics industry had also a strong impact on the accompanying sensing, acting and transmitting modules. On the other hand, the efficient monitoring an...

As part of the latterly introduced approach of Agriculture 4.0, practices involving ubiquitous computing advancements and conceptual innovations of “smart” agricultural production tend to be adopted. This fact is considered to be critical in addressing the challenge of securing adequate food supplies for the constantly increasing world population,...

Pig farming is one of the most technologically advanced and continuously growing production sectors. As the pig herds grow larger and at the same time the number of farmers decreases worldwide, it is almost impossible for the farmers to assess every individual animal and assure its wellbeing. Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) could provide solution...

Due to the dynamic nature of the agricultural industry, educators and their institutions face difficult challenges as they try to keep pace with future demands for knowledge and skilled workers. On the other hand, computational thinking (CT) has drawn increasing attention in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educ...

55 επιλεγμένα ποιήματα από τις απόπειρές μου κατά το διάστημα 2018-2021...

The issue of establishing interaction methods among users, applications and systems involved in Smart Agriculture through interfaces which are simple and friendly in end-usage, is considered to be essential for achieving the maximum possible penetration of the IoT technologies in this sector, for the benefit of sustainability. Herewith, in this pap...

During the last years, a plethora of technological advances have appeared, with a strong impact on people’s lives and works. In response to this dynamic, people getting involved with agricultural practices, like scientists, students and farmers, should become familiar with and able to exploit systems of cutting-edge characteristics. In this regard,...

The Industry 4.0 concept is a prominent trend expected to significantly affect the modernization of all industrial sectors. Since agriculture is a major sector of the primary industry, it is essential to integrate the Industry 4.0 technological advancements into the operational farm management in order ensure food security with regard to the climat...

Agriculture is a very demanding sector, in terms of physical condition, and not all people are able to tackle it, in a satisfactory way. The problems become more apparent in case of elder people or people with disabilities. The recent technological advances and the cost reduction in the smart phone industry products and the derived systems can make...

Περιλαμβάνει μέρος της ποιητικής μου δημιουργίας και αφορά 50 τετράστιχα (quatrains) σχετικά με τη μοίρα και τις (συχνά αντιφατικές) αντιλήψεις που έχουν γι' αυτή οι άνθρωποι γύρω μου.

A number of global issues, including climate change, scarcity of natural resources, demographics and food waste, are placing pressure on the overall sustainability of agricultural systems. For this, a generalized method of whole-farm management approach, based on the potent cross-industry cooperation of stakeholders, infrastructures, technologies a...

Electric vehicles (EVs) have become widespread during the last decade because of the distinct advantages they offer compared to the conventional ones. However, the increased penetration of EVs in the global transportation market has led increased electricity demands, which is expected to affect the operation of energy distribution systems. In the p...

The purpose of the present work is to investigate and evaluate the performance of the LoRa communication protocol when applied to wireless network intercom in standard Precision Agricultural applications. This is a very promising communication protocol as it solves the problem that arises when we force wireless networks to consume large amounts of...

Scope Examine the technological background of Cloud Computing, as well as to review its applications in agricultural informatization, focusing particularly on the innovative applications regarding the field of climate-smart agriculture. Innovations of Cloud Computing Technology in Climate-Smart Agriculture

For elderly or people with special needs, caring plants is a good practice to reinforce an optimistic aspect of view. Unfortunately, similar tasks often require physical strength and senses to work fine. This paper reports exactly on the effort of students of Agricultural Engineering to bridge this gap, through the exploitation of innovative hardwa...

Smart Agriculture is a considerably novel approach which attempts to encounter the climate change challenges as well as the increased global nutritional needs through the adoption of automated and ICT directed innovative technologies. Since the latest solutions for Smart Agriculture employ cloud services and advanced interconnectivity methods which...

The transition from extensive to intensive housing has induced in great changes in pigs’ husbandry. The social issue that arose from this transition, is the lack of space for pigs to express their natural behaviours such as exploration and foraging. Changes as such, resulted in aggression heightening, the appearance of undesired and abnormal social...

Inspired by the mobile phone market boost, several low cost credit card-sized computers have made the scene, able to support educational applications with artificial intelligence features, intended for students of various levels. This paper describes the learning experience and highlights the technologies used to improve the function of DIY robots....

Climate smart facility agriculture is considered to be a critical factor in terms of sustainability due to the predictions of the world population increase. Since the cutting edge technology of the internet of things (IοT) was introduced as the next internet revolution, enabling its continuously extending applications in facility agriculture is exp...

Renewable energy driven desalination has been proven to be a sustainable, economic and environmental friendly solution for the water deficiency problems in remote areas. However, one of the most important issues is the determination of the optimal configuration so that the system meets the water load at the minimum cost. In this paper, five differe...

In pace with the fast evolving conditions in the agricultural era, t techniques to exploit modern low cost innovative systems performance of the very promising consumption and packet losses. components and conventional smart phone devices The behavior of the radio of interest is ideal for educational purposes or presenting characteristic performanc...

Precision Viticulture requires very fine-scale spatial and temporal resolution to assess quite accurately variation in a vineyard. Many studies have used proximal sensing technology and spatial-temporal data analysis to characterize the local variation of plant vigour over time. The objective of this study was to present the potential of multivaria...

Agriculture is a very demanding sector, in terms of physical condition, and not all people are able to tackle with it, in a satisfactory way. The problem becomes more apparent in case of elder people or people with disabilities. Recent technological advances and cost reduction in smart phone industry and derived systems can be used to make this pro...

For elderly or people with special needs, caring plants is a good practice to reinforce an optimistic aspect of view. Unfortunately, similar tasks often require physical strength and senses to work fine. This paper reports exactly on the effort of students of Agricultural Engineering to bridge this gap, through the exploitation of innovative hardwa...

The issue of establishing interaction methods among users, applications and systems involved in Smart Agriculture through interfaces which are simple and friendly in end-usage is considered to be essential for achieving the maximum possible penetration of the IoT technologies in this sector, for the benefit of sustainability. Herewith, in this pape...

Agriculture is a sector that is rapidly changing due to the technological advances of our era, but is not always easy for the students to catch up with this fast evolving process. A good way to tackle with it is to let them experiment trying to develop innovative robotic vehicles for agricultural purposes. This paper describes exactly the trials be...

Smart Agriculture is a considerably novel approach which attempts to encounter the climate change challenges as well as the increased global nutritional needs through the adoption of automated and ICT directed innovative technologies. Since the latest solutions for Smart Agriculture employ cloud services and advanced interconnectivity methods which...

Smart Agriculture is a considerably novel approach which attempts to encounter the climate change challenges as well as the increased global nutritional needs through the adoption of automated and ICT directed innovative technologies. Since the latest solutions for Smart Agriculture employ cloud services and advanced interconnectivity methods which...

This article describes some findings of research studies that have being conducted in the Institute of Agricultural Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in the area of the development of on-board microprocessor systems for agricultural machinery. Microprocessor systems have also been used in process control in intensive agricultu...

Over the years, the soil is one of the main means of cultivation that is most affected by the intensification of horticultural practices. Hydroponics has become the solution to problems related to the environment and nutritional status of crops. Current technology is progressing so rapidly in the incorporation of research results that it is difficu...

In this paper, the basic characteristics of an Industrial Information Management Program for the development of an integrated remote environment for greenhouse management are presented. More specifically, the characteristics of the intelligent management and quality control of greenhouses system (MACQU) are analyzed. This system was created and dev...

Greenhouses are complex systems and facilities that consist of different equipment and operational needs. Modern technologies are cost-efficient, flexible and very powerful in meeting these needs. Optimization tools allow analytical and expert methods to be applied in practice. This chapter addresses issues related to nutrient absorption models, cl...

The structure of a microprocessor system for control of the reaping-machine loading of a grain-gathering harvester, by means of static optimization of its velocity, is considered in the paper. A technique-economical model for static optimization, based on some economical indices as exploitation costs and grain costs and other technical indices (as...

In this paper, Pseudo-Derivative Feedback (PDF) controllers are designed for first order plus integral plus dead-time (FOLIPDT) processes. Simple methods for tuning the PDF feedback controller are presented. The PDF control structure and the proposed tuning methods ensure smooth closed-loop res-ponse to set-point changes, fast regulatory control an...

The efficient use of water resources, including saline waters, requires a series of invest-ments in soil-less farming systems along with an effective use of these facilities. The results obtained in the Hortimed project have been included in two DSS programs (Decision Support Systems). DSS1 is used for on-line water and fertilizer management (reuse...

The first aim in this paper is to present innovative methods for relay feedback identification and PID-like controller tuning for Double Inegrating plus Dead-Time (DIPDT) systems. In particular, with regard to the DIPDT systems identification, here, it is proposed to apply a modified structure of the conventional relay feedback experiment. The prop...

This paper is concerned with the design of stabilizing control laws for the benchmark experimental system of the inverted pendulum. Emphasis is given on friction modeling, as friction plays a crucial role in the stability of the system, After a short review of static and dynamic models, the LuGre dynamic model is adopted. For the extraction of the...

A new method for simultaneous control of temperature and humidity in livestock buildings is presented in this paper. The proposed method consists of a combination of linearizing and non-interacting feedback/feedforward controllers desi-gned according to the Lyapunov theory, robust nonlinear compensators involving nonli-near damping terms and adapti...

The control of unstable second order plus dead-time (USOPDT) systems using generalized PID type controllers is investigated. New tuning rules, which are based on the assignment of the dominant poles. as well as on time response criteria relative to the closed loop system, are proposed. For the development of the tuning methods, the exponential term...

This paper deals with some investigations, in order to estimate the opportunities for application of computer vision systems for purity and germination assessment of cereal grains. The investigation results show that the objects shape representation using some specific morphological features is not suitable when solving the problems connected with...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the possibilities for an automatic non-destructive detection of Fusarium Graminearum diseased corn kernels by applying an evaluation of both internal and external indicators using analysis of their visual images and spectral characteristics. Analysing the obtained results the following conclusions can b...

A new adaptive controller is presented in this paper for the purpose of solving the tracking problem of linear systems that are subject to large parametric uncertainty and sudden exogenous disturbances. The proposed controller relies on the Pseudo-Derivative Feedback (PDF) control configuration, which has distinct advantages over other three-term c...

The design of an intelligent multi-layer multi-agent system for integrated management of greenhouse production is described. The model supports the integrated greenhouse production, with targets set to quality and quantity of produce with the minimum possible cost in resources and environmental consequences. The main goal is the Integrated Crop Man...

In this paper, new simple are presented for tuning pseudoderivative feedback controllers for dead-time processes. The methods are based on appropriate manipulations of the exponential dead-time term in the denominator of the closed-loop transfer function for a servo problem, and, subsequently, on appropriately matching the coefficients of correspon...

It is expected that precision farming operations will increasingly rely on more complex automatic steering and navigation capabilities of agricultural vehicles. In this paper, a vehicle trajectory tracking controller is presented, which minimizes the projected total tracking error, based on nonlinear model predictive control and the vehicle's _moti...

The design of an intelligent multi-agent system for integrated management of greenhouse production is described. The model supports the production, with targets set to quality and quantity of produce with the minimum possi-ble cost in resources and environmental consequences. The main goal is the Integrated Crop Management (ICM) of root-zone and ae...