Phillip Lancaster
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Sure would be nice to have J-Field run my Geomax robot.
Robot software
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Nate The Surveyor
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Think about this for a bit. You have your LS out gathering data. THEN you disable the LS, and hook it to the robot, (glass under the LS) shoot a bunch of shots, and then park the Robot, and continue, with the LS.
(This appears to be what you are suggesting)
OR,
Set the LS on a very hard shot, way back in the boonies, set it to shoot a point 10x, verified, and quit.
Come to the front, take out the robot, and DC, and shoot all you want, and need, and then occupy several points, with the LS.
Back in office, integrate them.
OR if you want to stake with the Robot, (design coords) set a number of nails, with the LS.
Then, set up the robot. Use thumb drive, to transfer the coords. to robot, and then use robot to stake them.
My point is, that it's probably better to have 2 units, in the field.
I think so, anyway.
One thing, I do want is under COGO is a STAKE routine, to get angles and distances, to use my reflectorless, to SET corners. This would be a MANUAL total station stake routine.
Pretty simple. But useful. I would not use it alot, but if it were there, I'd use it. The angles and distances would be all done manually, in the field book.
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(This appears to be what you are suggesting)
OR,
Set the LS on a very hard shot, way back in the boonies, set it to shoot a point 10x, verified, and quit.
Come to the front, take out the robot, and DC, and shoot all you want, and need, and then occupy several points, with the LS.
Back in office, integrate them.
OR if you want to stake with the Robot, (design coords) set a number of nails, with the LS.
Then, set up the robot. Use thumb drive, to transfer the coords. to robot, and then use robot to stake them.
My point is, that it's probably better to have 2 units, in the field.
I think so, anyway.
One thing, I do want is under COGO is a STAKE routine, to get angles and distances, to use my reflectorless, to SET corners. This would be a MANUAL total station stake routine.
Pretty simple. But useful. I would not use it alot, but if it were there, I'd use it. The angles and distances would be all done manually, in the field book.
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Phillip Lancaster
Active Member
Both of those are nice Nate. I work on electrical transmission jobs so its a bit different scenario than boundary. Here is what I want.
Use the LS to set the job up and collect all GPS points. Then set the Robot up and get all the shots, prism/reflectorless, I need via tablet (RAMS) or just buying the victor-LS (probably what I will do) to shoot electrical line heights, electrical sub station interior structures (you know the ones that GPS receivers hate to get). Having a complete solution. I just mix Carlson and J-field together. It works but would rather just stay with Javad.
Anyway. I don't know how one would mount the LS on the rover pole. Having it above the glass would require buying another prism. Thats a no go. RAMS is a better way IMO. There needs to be a bluetooth connection added for a local rams. Just having the LS sit down by the robot case or buy the victor-LS. Keeping all the data in one unit would be golden.
Use the LS to set the job up and collect all GPS points. Then set the Robot up and get all the shots, prism/reflectorless, I need via tablet (RAMS) or just buying the victor-LS (probably what I will do) to shoot electrical line heights, electrical sub station interior structures (you know the ones that GPS receivers hate to get). Having a complete solution. I just mix Carlson and J-field together. It works but would rather just stay with Javad.
Anyway. I don't know how one would mount the LS on the rover pole. Having it above the glass would require buying another prism. Thats a no go. RAMS is a better way IMO. There needs to be a bluetooth connection added for a local rams. Just having the LS sit down by the robot case or buy the victor-LS. Keeping all the data in one unit would be golden.
Nate The Surveyor
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Electrical transmission lines. ... hmmm mighty different scenario. Hmmmm I'm out of my league commenting.
Maybe I sit back and learn.
Sorry.
Nate
Maybe I sit back and learn.
Sorry.
Nate
Phillip Lancaster
Active Member
Not much difference but if I did boundary all the time (which i love the most) the mapstar from laser technology with their impulse gadget would be what i would look at instead of a robot. When you get a gps under a 500Kv line or near a substation the unit doesn't like it. Now the LS by far does the best around these structures but at times still has problems. The reason i need a good robot. Which would be nice to have J-field.
Wow. Shows my age on the laser technology products. They now have a truepulse 360r that has it all built in. Crazy.
Wow. Shows my age on the laser technology products. They now have a truepulse 360r that has it all built in. Crazy.
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Joe Paulin
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I'm with Nate on this one. All I need is to be able to transfer point info from one unit to another, which is easily done. J-Field is LS specific, correct? I would not want to run a robot off the LS.
Phillip Lancaster
Active Member
Joe. Would you run it off of a victor-LS if you had one?
Joe Paulin
Well-Known Member
Ahh, I see your point with the Victor. Then yes, I would want to use the Victor to run the robot. I think the issue here is that from what I understand, not all robots speak the same language. Geomax, Leica, Topcon, Trimble, Spectra Precision, etc. J-Field would have to support them all. That seems like a huge undertaking.
Now if Javad came out with his own robot, of course it should able to be controlled by the Victor.
Now if Javad came out with his own robot, of course it should able to be controlled by the Victor.
Phillip Lancaster
Active Member
I don't think they would have to get them all. Anyway Trimble - Spectra (same thing) is a no go. Topcon is a maybe to no. Geomax - Leica (same thing) is a possibility. They already communicate with bluetooth instead of regular radios. And compared to the price of the rest, Geomax is the value robot.