Russia became the first country where pilotless combines began to harvest on snow

As it became known on November 18, 2020, Russia was the first country where pilotless combines began to harvest on the snow-covered field. The automated cleaning of corn by means of Cognitive Agro Pilot technology is implemented at one of the agro-industrial enterprises of the Orenburg region.

Sberbank and Cognitive Pilot company took part in system development. According to developers, the artificial intelligence is able with an accuracy of 90% to distinguish the objects which are in the field and adequately to assess a situation in snow.

Russia is the first country where pilotless combines began to harvest on snow

Founders of Cognitive Agro Pilot used only for two-three situations connected with recognition of "bald patches" and some other areas with undersized culture. On the procedure of setup no more than a half of day left.

By means of one video camera and the konvolyutsionny neural network of deep learning modified under agrotechnical tasks, a system defines types and provisions of objects and also builds trajectories of the movement of the combine. Claims that the auto pilot effectively works in any weather conditions – dust, fog, snow and so forth. The cleaning of corn which is carried out by the smart combine on snow became the first in own way not only in the Orenburg region, but also around the world, noted in Cognitive Pilot.

Growth of efficiency of agrarian production in many respects is defined by a status of agricultural machinery and also a possibility of implementation of scientific and technical achievements. And therefore the future of agriculture – in use of high-performance and highly profitable technologies. And if using the technologies provided today our equipment becomes more effective, then it will have a positive impact on food security of area, – the first vice governor, the Minister of Agriculture of the Orenburg region Sergey Balykin noted.[1]

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