Surveying system

• US 20100229409A1
• Filed: 02/26/2010
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Inventors: Hayashi, Kunihiro, Kamizono, Fumihiko, Kumagai, Kaoru
• Granted Patent: US 8,151,474 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 33/285
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/842 using electromagnetic, optical or photoelectric beams, e.g. laser beams
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/847 using electromagnetic, optical or acoustic beams to determine the blade position, e.g. laser beams
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/261 Surveying the work-site to be treated
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/004 Reference lines, planes or sectors
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0236 in combination with a laser lasers per se H01S

Abstract

The present invention relates to a surveying system, comprising a rotary laser irradiation device 1 installed at a known point and used for projecting two or more fan-shaped laser beams 3 with at least one of the fan-shaped laser beams tilted and for forming a laser reference plane, a photodetection device 4, which is mounted on a mobile support member 9, for receiving the laser beam and for calculating an elevation angle at a photodetecting position, and a monitor photodetection device 11 installed at a known position within the laser reference plane, wherein the monitor photodetection device has a monitor photodetection sensor for sensing and detecting the laser beam, a storage unit for storing a reference value of the laser reference plane, an arithmetic control unit for calculating positional changes over time of the laser reference plane based on the result of photodetection by the monitor photodetection sensor and on the reference value, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the positional changes over time to the photodetection device and/or to the rotary laser irradiation device as compensation information.

Claims

1. A surveying system, comprising a rotary laser irradiation device installed at a known point and used for projecting two or more fan-shaped laser beams with at least one of said fan-shaped laser beams tilted and for forming a laser reference plane, a photodetection device, which is mounted on a mobile support member, for receiving said laser beam and for calculating an elevation angle at a photodetecting position, and a monitor photodetection device installed at a known position within said laser reference plane, wherein said monitor photodetection device has a monitor photodetection sensor for sensing and detecting said laser beam, a storage unit for storing a reference value of said laser reference plane, an arithmetic control unit for calculating positional changes over time of said laser reference plane based on the result of photodetection by said monitor photodetection sensor and on said reference value, and a transmitting unit for transmitting said positional changes over time to said photodetection device and/or to said rotary laser irradiation device as compensation information.

2. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein a compensation residual error is obtained based on an installed position of the rotary laser irradiation device, based on an installed position of said monitor photodetection device, based on an expected photodetecting position of said monitor photodetection device when the laser reference plane is set to a reference state and based on a photodetecting position when the laser beam is actually received and said compensation information is produced based on said compensation residual error and said positional changes over time.

3. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said monitor photodetection devices are provided at known points, said positional changes over time of said laser reference plane are calculated by each of said monitor photodetection devices, and said compensation information is produced based on a plurality of positional changes over time.

4. A surveying system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said compensation information is an information of change of said elevation angle, and the elevation angle obtained by said photodetection device is compensated based on said compensation information.

5. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said rotary laser irradiation devices are provided at known points, and at least one monitor photodetection device is provided at a known point in a region where the laser reference planes formed by each of rotary laser irradiation devices are overlapped each other.

6. A surveying system according to claims 1, wherein a plurality of said rotary laser irradiation devices are provided at known points, two monitor photodetection devices are provided at known points in a region where the laser reference planes formed by each of the rotary laser irradiation devices are overlapped each other, a line connecting said two monitor photodetection devices is regarded as a boundary of the two laser reference planes, a predetermined range including said boundary is set up as a smoothing region, and wherein in case there is a deviation in the detecting positions when said two monitor photodetection devices detect two laser reference planes, a smoothing plane connecting said two laser reference planes within said smoothing region is calculated based on a position detected by one of said monitor photodetection devices, and data of said smoothing plane is transmitted to said photodetection device and/or to said rotary laser irradiation device as compensation information.

7. A surveying system according to claim 6, wherein said smoothing plane obtained, when it is shifted from one of said laser reference planes to the other of said laser reference planes, strides over from a position where one of said laser reference planes goes across said boundary to a position where the other of said laser reference planes goes across said boundary of said smoothing region.

8. A surveying system according to claim 6, wherein said smoothing plane obtained, when it is shifted from one of said laser reference planes to the other of said laser reference planes, strides over from a position where one of said laser reference planes goes across one of boundaries of said smoothing region to a position where the other of said laser reference planes goes across the other boundary of said smoothing region.

9. A surveying system according to one of claims 1 or 6 to 8, wherein a GPS position measuring device is provided on said photodetection device or on said support member, and coordinate position of said photodetection device is measured.

10. A surveying system according to one of claims 6 to 8, wherein a photodetecting position of said photodetection device is compensated based on a deviation in height direction of said smoothing plane and said laser reference plane within said smoothing region.

11. A surveying system according to claim 6, wherein said rotary laser irradiation devices project laser beams with different modulations, respectively, and wherein said photodetection device and said monitor photodetection device are designed to discriminate the received laser beams.

12. A surveying system according to claim 11, wherein said monitor photodetection device adds a symbol for discriminating the laser beams to the compensation information to be transmitted, and wherein said photodetection device can discriminate as to which of the rotary laser irradiation devices the compensation information is related based on said symbol.