Autonomous control system for the movement of a machine-tractor unit using domestic element base

This paper presents the principles for the development of an autonomous machine-tractor unit, which can be used to solve the problems of precision farming. The architecture of the system using the domestic element base and the main application scenarios are presented in detail. A simplified autopilot – a control system has been developed that solves the problems of route planning and tactical (real time) control of a machine-tractor unit when solving a class of target tasks for passing a route specified in the form of key points of the route. A number of full-scale experiments were carried out, showing the effectiveness of the proposed development principles; they presented the results of the operation of the autonomous control system for the movement of a machine-tractor unit.