ROBOTIC TOOLS FOR MODERN HORTICULTURE
The paper deals with the questions of increase in industrial gardening efficiency due to the development and implementation of robotic tools in manufacturing and processing technologies of horticulture products for the purpose of increasing production efficiency, excepting "a human factor" when producing and minimizing harmful effects of chemical protection products on the man and environment. Experts at VIM have developed the prototype of a robotized sprayer with intellectual system providing minimization of harmful effects of chemicals on the man due to the exception of his direct participation in unit control. In the future, the robotized chassis of the sprayer will become a basis for the development of a wide array of machines working in automatic mode using satellite navigation systems. Features of designs and practical use of foreign robots with systems of technical sight in horticulture are analyzed. The analysis shows that use of specialized robotized equipment of new generation with intellectual control systems, capable to work in the system of precision agriculture taking into account factors of intensification of technologies, will provide high-quality fruit and berry production with minimum losses and material costs in the conditions of the concrete region.