68 many different protocols,” Lloyd added. For more real world test results and contextual details key for those considering the Certus Mini series, a dedicated whitepaper is now available at www.advancednavigation.com Civ Robotics exhibited its CivDot range of UGVs, designed around autonomous construction layout marking, particularly outdoor work, and engineered to suit varying capability requirements. “Our robots are the CivDot, CivDot+ and CivDot Mini. Each model features dual-antenna RTK-GPS positioning to maintain precise marking accuracy despite weather, terrain and interference across construction sites as large as thousands of acres,” said Claire Gauthier. “The UGVs can also be equipped with various tyre options to handle mud, snow and sand, and all three models are powered by Li-ion batteries.” The CivDot is a 40 kg robot, and drives on four BLDC motors in an all-electric 4WD configuration, with a ground clearance of 10 in. It can place up to 3,000 layout markers per day, each with a marking accuracy within a 3 cm margin. The CivDot+ is similar in design to the CivDot, but it is engineered for tighter precision in its placement. It marks up to 1,200 points per day with a margin of error within 0.8 cm. Both the CivDot and CivDot+ can operate for up to 8 hours between battery recharges. Lastly, the CivDot Mini, unlike its two siblings, is intended specifically for road-lane marking. A three-wheeled vehicle, equipped with a spray-can payload, can paint up to 27.36 km (17 miles) of solid or dashed lines daily, with a marking accuracy within 2.54 cm (1 in). Trimble unveiled critical new innovations for professional attendees from across the geospatial (and other) industries, including solutions developed by both the data services side and the GNSS inertial products side of its company. It has extended its Trimble Connect platform for easier sharing of and collaboration on geospatial data derived from UAV surveys. “To that end, we’ve just released the Trimble Reality Capture platform service, which is a data service extension co-developed with Microsoft and designed to bring reality-capture datasets from 3D laser scanners, mobile mapping systems and UAV missions into Trimble Connect,” Gregor Willhauck said. Trimble Reality Capture allows a surveyor or UAV operator to upload processed point clouds into Trimble Connect, for access and use by all types of project stakeholders, such as civil engineers, digital engineers or architects. “One large customer of ours is working on a 10 km-long infrastructure project revolving around highway reconstruction. They beta-tested Trimble Reality Capture, as did four other organisations, and in working with them, around 700 active users were collaborating on the data,” Willhauck said. “It really validated how this new innovation can enable surveyors to give access to vital data to a massive audience seeking tangible value and insights from it, without needing a PhD in photogrammetry to do it.” Rather than streaming the processed data into Trimble Connect in a compressed way, or any other representation that loses the original format, Trimble’s engineers have focused on preserving the fidelity of the original so no details within the data are lost, such that engineers can go back and check subsections and fine details, even years down the line. To develop the capacity for integrating reality-capture data into Trimble Connect, Microsoft provided copious expertise on handling large data quantities, along with ideal cloud services, formats and scaling approaches. Trimble itself brought the expertise on optimising around data formats, retaining data accuracy and surveyor-side considerations. Trimble Connect today has 30 million users, with data stored via a multi-cloud approach: AWS provides the primary data hosting, with reality-capture data hosted on Azure. This multi-cloud approach December/January 2025 | Uncrewed Systems Technology CivRobotics' CivDot+ is engineered for autonomous layout marking for outdoor construction projects The new Trimble Reality Capture service can bring reality capture datasets from 3D laser scanners, mobile mapping systems and UAV missions into the Trimble Connect platform
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