An automatic control system for a construction machine includes the construction machine provided with a ground leveling implement, a target, and a laser sensor; a survey unit that has a coordinate position measuring element and projects a beam of tracking light indicating a finished-plane height toward the target; a storage unit for storing finished-plane height data in correspondence with a horizontal coordinate position in the coordinate position; a computation unit for computing the finished-plane height data; a modulation unit for modulating the laser beam, based on construction information at the horizontal coordinate position, and for transmitting the construction information to the laser sensor; and a demodulation unit fox demodulating the construction information, based on the laser beam received by the laser sensor. The survey unit is equipped with a finished-height data drive mode in which the laser beam is rotated in a vertical direction by a rotation unit so that the height of the laser beam at the horizontal coordinate position becomes a height from the determined finished plane. The construction machine is provided with a control unit for controlling the ground leveling implement so that it reaches the finished-plane height, based on a position at which the laser beam is received on the laser sensor, and also controlling the ground leveling implement, based on the demodulated construction information.
A communication system for a surveying instrument according to the present invention comprises: a tracking target for reflecting tracking light therefrom; a survey unit for emitting the tracking light toward the tracking target and receiving a tracking light reflected from the tracking target using a light receiving device to thereby automatically track the tracking target; a modulator for modulating the tracking light in order to transmit information concerning a surveying work toward the tracking target; a light receiving element provided on the tracking target to receive the tracking light; and a demodulator for demodulating the tracking light received by the light receiving element. The transmission of information concerning the surveying work is carried out through optical communication using the tracking light, and the influence caused by electric wave noises, radio interference and the like can be avoided.
A survey system for transmitting guide light for instructing the direction of a target, the guide light having a wide range with small power. The survey system includes a target having a recursion reflector for reflecting light and a survey apparatus having an automatic collimation device for automatically coinciding the collimation axis of the recursion reflector with that of a telescope. The target includes a guide light transmitter for emitting guide light and scans a fan beam that is wide in the horizontal direction and narrow in the vertical direction in the vertical direction as guide light. The survey apparatus includes a direction detector for receiving guide light and detecting the direction of the guide light transmitter and also includes a collimation preparing device for turning the telescope roughly to the recursion reflector based on an output signal from the direction detector prior to commencing the automatic collimation.
Disclosed is a wireless instrument tracking system. The wireless instrument tracking system is used for determining the location of at least one point relative to the instrument in a three-dimensional space relative to a three-dimensional coordinate tracking system. Advantageously, a first wireless instrument can be placed into the optical field with the wireless instrument including a wireless receiver and at least one optical position indicator. The optical position indicator is typically light emitting diodes (18) and communicates with corresponding measurement sensors (30) across a wireless optical link. The wireless optical link is time multiplexed with repetitive time frames divided into time slots. Each LED (18) emits an infrared signal or flashes in a respective time slot of a time frame. The measurement sensors (30) are preferably CCD cameras. The LEDs (18) are synchronized with the cameras and once synchronized each LED (18) flashes in a different time slot in synchronization with the camera frame rate.
