electronics Article An Autonomous Grape-Harvester Robot: Integrated System Architecture Eleni Vrochidou 1, Konstantinos Tziridis 1, Alexandros Nikolaou 1, Theofanis Kalampokas 1, George A. Papakostas 1,* , Theodore P. Pachidis 1, Spyridon Mamalis 2, Stefanos Koundouras 3 and Vassilis G. Kaburlasos 1 1 HUMAIN-Lab, Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences, International Hellenic University (IHU), 65404 Kavala, Greece;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +30-2510-462-321 Abstract: This work pursues the potential of extending “Industry 4.0” practices to farming toward achieving “Agriculture 4.0”. Our interest is in fruit harvesting, motivated by the problem of address- ing the shortage of seasonal labor. In particular, here we present an integrated system architecture of an Autonomous Robot for Grape harvesting (ARG). The overall system consists of three interdepen- dent units: (1) an aerial unit, (2) a remote-control unit and (3) the ARG ground unit. Special attention is paid to the ARG; the latter is designed and built to carry out three viticultural operations, namely Citation: Vrochidou, E.; Tziridis, K.; harvest, green harvest and defoliation.