Publication detail

Position Measurement Of Moving Objects Using A Robotic Total Station

HORELIČAN, T.

Original Title

Position Measurement Of Moving Objects Using A Robotic Total Station

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper attempts to evaluate an emerging use case for Robotic Total Stations (RTSs) as a tracking and guidance system for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), especially applied to scenarios where conventional means of navigation (such as GNSS) are insufficient or completely unavailable. The focus is on indoors environments, where a constantly tracking total station could potentially be used to provide the UAV with a reference coordinate frame together with its immediate position within these coordinates. Preliminary experiments have been performed to evaluate the capabilities of two available RTSs, the Trimble S7 and S9 HP series, both controlled by a TSC7 controller. A Raspberry Pi mini-computer was used to timestamp specific events during the motion of a target tracked by the RTS. The Pi was synchronized with the RTS through Precision Time Protocol (PTP). This enabled direct timestamp comparison for time delay evaluation.

Keywords

robotic total station, kinematic tracking, unmanned aerial vehicle, navigation

Authors

HORELIČAN, T.

Released

27. 4. 2021

Publisher

Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication

Location

Brno, Czech Republic

ISBN

978-80-214-5942-7

Book

Proceedings I of the 27st Conference STUDENT EEICT 2021: General papers

Edition

1

Edition number

1

Pages from

218

Pages to

222

Pages count

5

URL

https://www.eeict.cz/eeict_download/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2021_sbornik_1.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT178009,
  author="Tomáš {Horeličan}",
  title="Position Measurement Of Moving Objects Using A Robotic Total Station",
  booktitle="Proceedings I of the 27st Conference STUDENT EEICT 2021: General papers",
  year="2021",
  series="1",
  number="1",
  pages="218--222",
  publisher="Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication",
  address="Brno, Czech Republic",
  isbn="978-80-214-5942-7",
  url="https://www.eeict.cz/eeict_download/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2021_sbornik_1.pdf"
}