The paper presents the results of an analysis of the development of mobile traction and power means in agriculture: in most cases, a tractor is used in conjunction with agricultural machines and implements to perform technological operations; in order to increase labor productivity, there is a tendency to increase the power of the tractors used, and therefore the weight of tractors and machines connected to them increases, which leads to an increase in pressure on the soil and its over-compaction; When forming wide-cut units consisting of several agricultural machines with energy-saturated tractors, there is a need to use additional devices - couplers equipped with several support wheels, creating additional resistance to the movement of the unit, which increases the energy costs for performing the technological operation, reduces maneuverability, complicates the design and increases the metal consumption of the unit being formed. An analysis of the flow of scientific publications, including the Scopus database, showed that the interest of the scientific community in the research of robotic systems, including the development of agricultural unmanned vehicles, is growing every year. The article discusses the results of creating an unmanned traction-energy module and the method of its aggregation with agricultural machines. The use of the invention will simplify the design of traction and power equipment for agricultural purposes and agricultural machines, reduce their metal consumption, increase the productivity of agricultural units, reduce energy consumption and the cost of performing technological operations, and increase the level of unification of traction and power equipment for agricultural purposes and agricultural machines.

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