ASSESSMENT OF THE OPERATING COST OF UNMANNED AGRICULTURAL UNITS

DOI 10.12737/2073-0462-2024-105-112 УДК 631.12

Authors

  • Ivan Aleksandrovich Starostin Ph.D. of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for Forecasting the Development of Machine Systems and Technologies in the Agro-Industrial Complex
  • Svetlana Aleksandrovna Davydova Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.
  • Alexander Vadimovich Yeschin Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.
  • Elena Dmitrievna Degtyareva Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.

Keywords:

ASSESSMENT OF THE OPERATING COST OF UNMANNED AGRICULTURAL UNITS

Abstract

Currently, research is being actively carried out on the development of unmanned mobile agricultural equipment capable of performing a range of different operations when combined with various agricultural machines. One of the key issues regarding the prospects for using unmanned mobile devices is assessing the economic efficiency of their use. As a result of the analysis of generally accepted methods for calculating the cost of operating mobile vehicles, it was revealed that the cost of operating unmanned mobile vehicles depends on their cost, annual load, power, productivity of agricultural units formed with them and the number of unmanned mobile vehicles controlled by one dispatch center operator. An assessment of the cost of operating unmanned mobile vehicles showed that the use of unmanned mobile vehicles created on the basis of commercially produced tractors while maintaining the existing gradation of traction classes and power allows reducing the cost of a motor-hour of operation compared to basic tractors by 3...19%, depending on traction class. The use of low-power universal unmanned mobile vehicles working in a group allows reducing the cost of a motor-hour of operation relative to a base tractor only in traction classes 0.2-0.6, and unmanned mobile vehicles created on the basis of several similar energy modules - only in traction classes 0.2-0.9. In the course of assessing the maximum economically feasible costs for re-equipping a base tractor when creating unmanned mobile vehicles on its basis, it was found that with an increase in the traction class, the limit of the maximum economically feasible costs for conversion increases, while the share of costs for re-equipping the base tractor in the cost of unmanned mobile vehicles decreases from 183% in traction class 0.2 to 11% in traction class 8. Thus, it has been established that it is economically feasible to convert serial tractors of the highest traction classes into unmanned mobile vehicles first of all.

Information about the authors

Ivan Aleksandrovich Starostin , Ph.D. of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for Forecasting the Development of Machine Systems and Technologies in the Agro-Industrial Complex

Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Davydova , Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.

Ph.D. of Technical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Laboratory for Forecasting the Development of Machine Systems and Technologies in the Agro-Industrial Complex

Alexander Vadimovich Yeschin , Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.

Ph.D. of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for Forecasting the Development of Machine Systems and Technologies in the Agro-Industrial Complex

Elena Dmitrievna Degtyareva , Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center “VIM”, Moscow, Russia.

Junior researcher at the Laboratory for Forecasting the Development of Machine Systems and Technologies in the Agro-Industrial Complex

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Сведения об авторах:

Старостин Иван Александрович – кандидат технических наук, старший научный сотрудник лаборатории прогнозирования развития систем машин и технологий в АПК, e-mail: starwan@yandex.ru

Давыдова Светлана Александровна – кандидат технических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник лаборатории прогнозирования развития систем машин и технологий в АПК, e-mail: davidova-sa@mail.ru

Ещин Александр Вадимович – кандидат технических наук, старший научный сотрудник лаборатории прогнозирования развития систем машин и технологий в АПК, e-mail: eschin-vim@yandex.ru

Дегтярева Елена Дмитриевна – младший научный сотрудник лаборатории прогнозирования развития систем машин и технологий в АПК, e-mail: alena-kozh@yandex.ru

Федеральный научный агроинженерный центр «ВИМ», г. Москва, Россия

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Published

2026-07-22

How to Cite

Starostin . И. А., Davydova С. А., Yeschin А. В., & Degtyareva Е. Д. (2026). ASSESSMENT OF THE OPERATING COST OF UNMANNED AGRICULTURAL UNITS: DOI 10.12737/2073-0462-2024-105-112 УДК 631.12. Vestnik of Kazan State Agrarian University, 19(2). Retrieved from http://vestnik-kazgau.ru/index.php/vestnik/article/view/178