CONCEPTUAL PRINCIPLES OF INTELLIGENT AGRICULTURAL MACHINES IN THE CASE OF COMBINE HARVESTER

Abstract

Monitoring of different ways to increase the productivity of agricultural machinery under development of intelligent agricultural  production shown that traditional directions of increasing the  concentration of energy, sizes of working elements and running  speed almost reached their resources capacity. Besides even power  of the existing machines is not fully used because of the influence of  the human factor. An operator cannot quickly react to constantly  changing agricultural background parameters while the machine is in motion. The authors offered to automate the management of the  majority of all technological operations using devices that the machinery is supplied with. Research revealed the real opportunity to establish an automated management and regulatory  system. If an operator is excluded then it is possible to increase efficiency of a machine from 10 to 50 percent depending on its type. Some recommendations on the structure of the priority of  automatic devices were given and the main vision principles of  intelligent combine harvesters were formulated. They are based on  three underlying factors which include electric drives for working  tools involving transmission; automatic equipment systems; computerization of controlling machine and its operation modes.