SurveyAK, post: 343932, member: 9968 wrote: Does the Triumph controller run a robotic total station?
No but it works real nice atop a 360 prism with a 5/8" thread, and a data collector on the pole to run the robot. No switching back and forth from gps to robotics, I run them both at the same time and wasnt able to do this with my other receivers unless I used two data collectors on the pole or wasted the time changing instrument config's on one data collector.
Adam, post: 343992, member: 8900 wrote: No but it works real nice atop a 360 prism with a 5/8" thread, and a data collector on the pole to run the robot.
Oof! My arm hurts just thinking of totin' that rig around all day.
I don't do it very often Jim, but it is helpful when your in the back country. I use a seco short 3 section pole with that setup.
None of those are fully integrated except the Geo7X (sort of). The Geo7X has diminished performance without the external antenna and has no internal radio modem (ie UHF or Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum). The rangefinder is cool and the accuracy is pretty good compared to a lot of laser rangefinders. Maybe not quite survey grade at 5cm, but still good for a lot of applications.
Can you do photogrammetry with any of the receivers you listed? I don't know.
The LS is the only RTK system I'm aware of that does close range photogrammetry collection and processing (all within the rover itself) using the integrated camera. The V10 module with the R10 does collection, but has to be post processed separately.
The LS needs no data collector, I have an allegro on the pole running the robot.
Running survce on the DC with the robot and controlling the LS from its interface at the same time but independent of each other. If I need coordinates from the LS In survce I have to export them to a thumb drive and put them in the allegro. That hasn't been to big a problem. If I am doing stakeout it is not a problem at all because there is no need to transfer coords from one to the other.
I have been operating like you for years with my epoch 50's and robot using carlson. It works well but it isn't simultaneous. Are you getting GPS measurements and total station measurements simultaneously?
gschrock, post: 344026, member: 556 wrote: You can get a point from the gun in one shot and the GNSS in another as needed, even take shots on the same point. I believe that is what you could do with Carlson - same works for Magnet. TDS. 1200, Access, Viva, and others. The GNSS is running all the time, and can choose to store shots at any time but do not have to jump back and forth between software and/or collectors to do so, or have to mix points collected by two collectors after the fact. A cool thing about integrated robotic&GNSS are options like (but not limited to) you can shoot with GNSS where the robot can't see, and use the robot where there is no sky, you can do track-on-position to follow the rod, and mix the shots live in the field to field map/verify as you go, collect control and start using it right away in the same interface, set up another GNSS or two on tripods for more live control or run them cooking for post-process, all from one controller.
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So how does your current setup work? What software is running on the Allegro to run the robot
Survce
, and how do you get positions from the LS into the survey?
Thumb drive when needed, otherwise data from the LS and the survce are adjusted together in the office.
As needed in the field in real time or put them together afterwards in some other software or text file?How are you sending instructions to the LS? Via its built-in controller... if so then you have to jump back and forth between the Allegro and the LS screen interface... or is the (Carlson?) on the collector on the pole sending instructions to the LS?
There is no communication between the two.
Is it just me, or does it seem that any thread about equipment eventually ends up here:
At the end of the day if the equipment that you have chosen makes you money and makes you more productive without sacrificing quality then that is great and that is what we are all after.
When you do find that right combination you get excited and want to share your experience! That goes for all types and brands of equipment. No need to rain on anybody's parade!