Airmobile devices in technologies for pasture animal farming

The branch of pastoral stockbreeding, stallpasture (camp) animal husbandry is characterized by direct interaction with selforganizing mobile objects of natural origin - animals moving through the habitat or pastures. The technological processes implemented here, which are different in nature, place and time of execution, require operational adaptation to constantly changing conditions, assessment of the state of animals, control of their characteristics. Livestock housing systems, regardless of the intraindustry specialization and the specifics of the completion of production stages, identify the problem of remote detection and track of the movement of an animal, assessment and control of its behavior, diagnosing a condition, treatment, etc. The performance of some technological operations and influences can cause stress, fear, unpredictable reactions and behavior of animals. The detailed study of such operations is of interest, special setting and finetuning of the devices for their implementation. In most cases, the tasks of herd management technologies are effectively solved by a group of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) robots and auxiliary equipment deployed in the area of pasturage. The article deals with the specific agrotechnological operations of pasture and distant pasture livestock farming in large areas. Such operations include monitoring the behavior of animals in the herd, immobilization, diagnosing health, treating animals, etc. When monitoring the grazing area, the UAV networkcentric control system generates an uptodate map of the controlled area, recognizes the type of animal, evaluates its biometric characteristics, and calculates the coordinates of diseased individuals. If necessary, they specify the treatment procedure and implement it with the help of the UAV. The considered methodological and algorithmic features of performing operations can be used in other technological processes of animal husbandry.