RTK-GPS surveying system

• US 7,460,065 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Inventors: Ogawa, Kazuhiro, Takasu, Kenichi, Ogawa, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, DAO LINDA
• Application Number:
  US11/729,859
• Publication Number:
  US 20070241961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 342/357.03, 342/357.06, 342/357.08, 342/357.09, 342/357.1, 701/213, 701/215
• US Class Current: 342/357.41
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/04 providing carrier phase data

Abstract

An RTK-GPS surveying system for surveying an object includes at least one satellite positioning device as a base station configured to send correction data, a plurality of satellite positioning devices as rover stations configured to receive the correction data, and a server provided in an IP-VPN communication network for establishing communication between the satellite positioning device as the base station and the plurality of satellite positioning devices as the rover stations, each of the satellite positioning devices has a satellite positioning part for receiving radio wave from a satellite, a communication part for performing communication between each of the satellite positioning devices, and a control part for controlling the satellite positioning part and the communication part.

Claims

1. An RTK-GPS surveying system for surveying an object, comprising:

at least one satellite positioning device as a base station configured to send correction data;

a plurality of satellite positioning devices as rover stations configured to receive the correction data; and

a server provided in an IP-VPN communication network for establishing communication between the satellite positioning device as the base station and the plurality of satellite positioning devices as the rover stations,

each of the satellite positioning devices, comprising;

a satellite positioning part for receiving radio waves from a satellite;

a communication part for performing communication between each of the satellite positioning devices; and

a control part for controlling the satellite positioning part and the communication part,

the control part of each of the satellite positioning devices, including;

a rover station function executing program which executes a rover station function; and

a base station function executing program which executes a base station function,

the control part of each of the satellite positioning devices being configured to switch between the rover station function and the base station function,

wherein each of the communication parts has a specific ID assigned for each of the satellite positioning devices,

wherein the server includes the specific ID of each of the communication parts registered for each of the satellite positioning devices, and

wherein the server verifies the specific ID registered in the server and the specific ID registered in each of the satellite positioning devices, and allows login to the IP-VPN communication network, so as to establish the communication between the satellite positioning device as the rover station and the satellite positioning device as the base station.

2. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of specific IDs of the satellite positioning devices as the base stations is registered in the server, the control part of each of the satellite positioning devices as the rover station includes a selection device configured to select the specific ID of the satellite positioning device used as the fixed device, and one of the satellite positioning devices as the fixed device is selectable by an operation of the control part from the satellite positioning device as the rover station.

3. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 2, wherein the satellite positioning devices including the base station and the rover station are adopted as a group, the control part of each of the satellite positioning devices includes the specific ID of another satellite positioning device belonging to the group, and the control part of each of the satellite positioning devices is communicable within a range of the group.

4. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of satellite positioning devices used as the rover stations is provided in the IP-VPN communication network, the control part of one of the satellite positioning devices used as the rover station includes an instruction portion for sending an instruction from a beginning to an end of observation to another rover station and the control part of the another rover station includes an alarm portion for informing the instruction from the instruction portion, so as to perform surveying by means of an indirect observation method which performs simultaneous measurement by using at least two satellite positioning devices used as the rover stations.

5. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 1, wherein the control part of each of the satellite positioning devices includes firmware for executing a function of the control part, the IP-VPN communication network includes a central terminal device configured to update the function of the control part, and each of the satellite positioning devices accesses the central terminal device, so as to update the firmware online.

6. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 5, wherein each of the satellite positioning devices is accessible to the central terminal device via the server.

7. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 1, wherein the IP-VPN communication network includes a central analysis process device configured to analyze data obtained by each of the satellite positioning devices online.

8. The RTK-GPS surveying system according to claim 7, wherein a specific ID of the central analysis process device is registered in the server, and each of the satellite positioning devices establishes communication with the central analysis process device via the server.