Improving the operation of forestry machines under the conditions of digital technologies implementation

The widespread introduction of digital technologies into human economic activities, including logging, is an actual development trend. When organizing the work of logging machines, it is necessary to take into account not only their technical characteristics, but also their ability to adapt to a single digital space. A review of domestic and foreign scientific and technical sources has shown that much attention is paid to the issues of improving the logging process, many researchers consider the digitalization of logging machine operation as one of the main activities. The development of artificial intelligence systems implies the creation of a set of logging machines that work autonomously, without human participation, both in timber harvesting and its removal. However, at the current stage of development, it is impossible to do without human participation, therefore, the considered solutions are aimed at improving the efficiency of the harvester operator, reducing his fatigue by automating some of the work performed, in particular, the introduction of machine vision, which allows automatic control of the safety of the logging process, presence in dangerous areas, determine the species of wood with the use of neural networks to reduce the mental load on the operator. An important aspect of improving the efficiency of logging is work planning with the use of an information system, which takes into account both the results of machine operation (diameter and number of assortments, their volume, species) and controls the technical condition of machines and technological equipment. The algorithm of the information system functioning should include specialized software that allows modeling and on its basis planning of operation modes of logging machines and equipment taking into account their technical condition and natural-production operating conditions. Solutions to transfer the necessary information to the company's server to take into account the peculiarities of logging machines operation due to the remoteness of harvesting areas from the cellular network coverage area are proposed in the paper.

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