WO2007078832A9 - Managed traverse system and method to acquire accurate survey data in absence of precise gps data - Google Patents
Managed traverse system and method to acquire accurate survey data in absence of precise gps dataInfo
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- the present invention is directed to a system and method for obtaining precise survey-grade position data, particularly in areas or zones where precise GPS data cannot be obtained, due to natural or man-made objects such as trees and buildings.
- the economic dimension is the GPS survey instrument's value proposition that justifies its price of $35K-50K.
- the value proposition is the significant improvement in efficiency over alternative precise positioning methods that include conventional total stations (CTS), automatic total stations (ATS) and fan lasers.
- CTS total stations
- ATS automatic total stations
- a GPS survey instrument requires one operator and can operate over a broad area of up to 10 km away from its base receiver without relocation of infrastructure.
- a CTS selling for around $10K requires a crew of two operators and has a range of a few hundred meters.
- An ATS selling for around $45K requires only one operator, but has a range limit similar to a CTS. Both require a fairly elaborate setup per location. Fan lasers have even shorter range limits and require elaborate and time-consuming installations. Consequently the GPS survey instrument can provide an excellent value proposition so long as it delivers reliable centimeter-level positioning needed for most survey-grade applications.
- a surveyor using only GPS is normally able to provide a specified surveyed position accuracy as that from competing survey instructs (examples are CTS, ATS 3 fan lasers, traditional rod-and- chain). This accuracy is on the order of one centimeter (cm) for precision land survey. It ranges from 10cm to one meter for lower accuracy survey applications such as cadastral survey 5, geographic information system (GIS) and seismic survey.
- CTS centimeter
- ATS 3 fan lasers traditional rod-and- chain
- This accuracy is on the order of one centimeter (cm) for precision land survey. It ranges from 10cm to one meter for lower accuracy survey applications such as cadastral survey 5, geographic information system (GIS) and seismic survey.
- GIS geographic information system
- a precise-GPS-denied zone is a zone or region where a GPS surveyor cannot provide the required accuracy in locating a point in three dimensional space (for example, accuracy may degrade from lcm to 3cm in a precision ; land survey due to signal refraction from nearby foliage or buildings).
- the present invention provides a way to navigate through precise-GPS-denied zones and obtain precise survey grade location information of target points within the zone.
- the method of transiting or traversing across and surveying in a precise-GPS-denied zone is referred to
- the "positioning means" used in a managed traverse may comprise an integrated positioning system that combines a GPS receiver, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a laser electronic distance meter (EDM) and a zero velocity indicator (ZVI) switch into a GPS- inertial-EDM (GEE) survey instrument.
- the GIE survey instrument reverts to a GPS survey instrument when it has access to uncompromised GPS signals.
- the managed traverse provides a method for traversing a precise-GPS-denied zone using a GIE survey instrument to be executed in a simple fashion by a single operator with no or little risk of losing positioning accuracy. 1
- the additional workload penalty imposed by a managed traverse should be significantly less than that of setting up and surveying with a total station in the precise-GPS-denied zone, or else it will generally not be used.
- the MMI dimension comes from a requirement to maintain operator familiarity and ease-of-use.
- the operator should be able to use the GIE survey instrument like a GPS survey instrument with which he is familiar, and to execute a managed traverse quickly, easily and reliably without elaborate training.
- the term "traversing” means traveling from a start point to an end point, obtaining position information along the way, which is typically relative position information of present location relative to the start point. In one form, this may be done with inertial measurement unit which senses inertial movement (distance and direction) and integrates movement to determine distance and bearing traveled, and thus can determine present position.
- a method for obtaining position information of a target inside a GPS-denied zone by moving a survey instrument along a trajectory through the zone from a starting point outside the zone to an end point also outside the zone, using the survey instrument to obtain the surveyed positions of a plurality of intermediate points on the trajectory with accuracy specified for the instrument. This is sometimes referred to as a managed traverse.
- the present invention provides a method of determining the position of a target comprising the steps of determining the position of a starting point spaced apart from the target, traversing from the starting point to the target while keeping track of positions using a tracking method that is subject to the accumulation of tracking errors, and en route to the target, reducing the accumulated errors by determining position relative to at least one reference location.
- the invention provides a method of determining the location of an object in a zone, comprising:
- the invention provides a method of determining the location of an object in a zone, comprising:
- locating a GPS receiver at the second GPS receiver location i. determining the position of the GPS receiver at the second GPS receiver location using GPS signals; j. determining the position of the second reference point relative to the GPS receiver at the second receiver location; k. obtaining second relative position information of the object location relative to the second reference point;
- the invention provides a surveying system for determining the position of a target in a zone in which precise survey grade location data cannot be obtained using GPS receivers, comprising:
- a GPS receiver for determining the position of a starting point near the perimeter of the zone
- a measurement system for obtaining relative position information as one traverses from the starting point to the target, said measurement system subject to the accumulation of tracking errors during said traversal and for obtaining aiding position information to reduce the accumulation of errors during said traversal; and a processing system for computing the position of the target using the starting point position, the relative position information, and the aiding position information, whereby the position of the target so computed has greater precision than that computed using only relative position information.
- the invention provides a surveying system for determining the position of an object in a zone where a GPS receiver cannot locate the object with sufficient precision for survey grade application, comprising:
- a position locator for determining the position of a first reference point near a perimeter of the zone using a GPS receiver and GPS signals; said position locator obtaining relative position information of the object location relative to the first reference point during a traversal inside the zone from the first reference point toward the object, accumulating tracking errors during said traversal;
- an aiding device for reducing the accumulated tracking errors during traversal to the target inside the zone, by determining position relative to at least one reference location whose position is known.
- the invention provides a surveying system for determining the position of a target comprising: a position locator for determining the position of a starting point spaced apart from the target point, said position locater keeping track of positions, as one traverses from the starting point to the target, using a tracking method which is subject to the accumulation of tracking errors during the traversing, and
- Figure 1 shows a GIE survey instrument
- Figure 2 shows a GIE survey instrument with GPS attitude array
- Figure 3 shows a GIE survey instrument usage
- Figure 4 shows an AINS architecture
- Figure 5 shows a managed traverse through a precise-GPS-denied zone due to a tree, and a target to be surveyed located under the tree;
- Figure 6 shows an example of a position error due to azimuth error
- Figure 7 shows an example of a smoothed position error
- Figure 8 shows a typical SLAM navigation through field of targets, either naturally occurring or placed by the operator.
- the present invention provides a method of determining the position of a target comprising the steps of determining the position of a starting point spaced apart from the target, traversing from the starting point to the target while keeping track of positions using a tracking method that is subject to the accumulation of tracking errors, and en route to the target, reducing the accumulated errors by determining position relative to at least one reference location.
- the reference location may be the starting point or may be spaced apart from the starting point.
- the step of determining the position of a starting point may comprise using a GPS receiver.
- the step of traversing may use a tracking method with an IMU.
- the step of reducing accumulated errors may comprise obtaining aiding information with an EDM.
- the invention provides a method of determining the location of an object in a zone, comprising:
- the zone may be a region where precise survey-grade position information cannot be obtained using GPS.
- the step (d) may comprise using an EDM to determine the position of the reference point relative to the GPS receiver at the GPS receiver location.
- the step (f) may comprise using an EDM to obtain first relative position information of the object location relative to the first reference point.
- the step (g) may comprise using an EvIU to obtain aiding information.
- the step (a) may comprise locating a retroreflector on the first reference point.
- the method may further include locating a retroreflector at the object location, and step (f) may comprise using an EDM with a laser to obtain first relative position information.
- the method may further include using a survey pole with a GPS receiver and EDM mounted thereon.
- the method may further include using a survey pole with a GPS receiver and IMU mounted thereon.
- the method may further include using a survey pole with a GPS receiver, EDM and IMU mounted thereon.
- the step (f) may comprise using an EDM and the step (g) may comprise using an IMU.
- the invention provides a method of determining the location of an object in a zone, comprising:
- locating a GPS receiver at the second GPS receiver location i. determining the position of the GPS receiver at the second GPS receiver location using GPS signals; j. determining the position of the second reference point relative to the GPS receiver at the second receiver location; k. obtaining second relative position information of the object location relative to the second reference point;
- the first and second reference points may be different or the same.
- the first GPS receiver location and the first reference point may be the same.
- the second GPS receiver location and the second reference point may be the same.
- the step (d) may comprise using an EDM to determine the position of the first reference point relative to the GPS receiver at the GPS receiver location.
- the step (f) may comprise using an IMU to obtain first relative position information of the object location relative to the first reference point.
- the step (1) may comprise using an EDM to obtain aiding information.
- the step (1) may comprise using an EDM to obtain information on the position of the GPS receiver at the second GPS receiver location relative to first GPS receiver location.
- the step (j) may comprise using an EDM to determine the position of the second reference point relative to the second GPS receiver location.
- the step (k) may comprise using an IMU to obtain second relative position information of the object location relative to the second reference point.
- the method may further include locating a retroreflector at the object location, and the steps (f) and (k) may comprise using an IMU to obtain first and second relative position information.
- the method may further include using a survey pole with a GPS receiver and EDM mounted thereon.
- the method may further include using a survey pole with a GPS receiver and IMU mounted thereon.
- the method may further include using a survey pole with a GPS receiver, EDM and IMU mounted thereon.
- the method may further include using an IMU to obtain information in steps (f) and (k), and step (m) may determine the location of the object using a smoothed estimation process which combines forward and reverse time estimation processes to reduce position error.
- the zone may be a region where precise survey-grade position information cannot be obtained using GPS.
- the invention provides a surveying system for determining the position of a target in a zone in which precise survey grade location data cannot be obtained using GPS receivers, comprising:
- a GPS receiver for determining the position of a starting point near the perimeter of the zone
- a measurement system for obtaining relative position information as one traverses from the starting point to the target, said measurement system subject to the accumulation of tracking errors during said traversal and for obtaining aiding position information to reduce the accumulation of errors during said traversal;
- a processing system for computing the position of the target using the starting point position, the relative position information, and the aiding position information, whereby the position of the target so computed has greater precision than that computed using only relative position information.
- the system may further comprise a survey pole onto which the GPS receiver is mounted, and the measurement system may comprise an EDM with a laser mounted on the pole.
- the system may further comprise a survey pole onto which the GPS receiver is mounted, and the measurement system may comprise an IMU mounted on the pole.
- the system may further comprise a survey pole onto which the GPS receiver is mounted, and the measurement system may comprise an EDM with a laser, and an IMU mounted on the pole.
- the measurement system may obtain relative position information of a plurality of intermediate reference points within the zone as one traverses from the starting point to the target said relative position information at each point being relative to the previous point, and the measurement system may obtain aiding information for at least one of the intermediate reference points by obtaining relative position data from the intermediate reference point to the starting point.
- the measurement system may comprise an IMU to obtain relative position information, and an EDM to obtain the aiding information.
- the invention provides a surveying system for determining the position of an object in a zone, where a GPS receiver cannot locate the object with sufficient precision for survey grade application, comprising:
- a position locator for determining the position of a first reference point near a perimeter of the zone using a GPS receiver and GPS signals, said position locator obtaining relative position information of the object location relative to the first reference point during a traversal inside the zone from the first reference point toward the object, accumulating tracking errors during said traversal;
- an aiding device for reducing the accumulated tracking errors during traversal to the target inside the zone, by determining position relative to at least one reference location whose position is known.
- the invention provides a surveying system for determining the position of a target comprising:
- a position locator for determining the position of a starting point spaced apart from the target point;, said position locater keeping track of positions, as one traverses from the starting point to the target, using a tracking method which is subject to the accumulation of tracking errors during the traversing, and
- an aiding device for reducing the accumulated tracking errors during traversing to the target inside the zone by determining position relative to at least one reference location whose position is known.
- FIG. 1 shows a GIE survey instrument which comprises a survey pole 12, a GPS receiver and antenna/IMU assembly (AIA) 14, an EDM 16 having a laser beam with visual sighting, a hand grip 18, a zero velocity indicator switch (ZVI) 20 at the bottom of the pole, a ground contact spike 22, and an electronics module 24 to which is connected a data entry unit 26 and battery module 28.
- the GIE survey instrument provides an inertial navigation system by the IMU assembly 14 and other components on the instrument.
- the electronics module 24 may contain a processor for processing the data.
- the EDM measures range to a target that the operator designates via a sighting telescope that is built into the EDM. During operation, the operator manipulates the entire pole to aim the EDM. This may be cumbersome, hence an EDM that can be aimed separately may be more convenient, and a pair of shaft encoders may be provided to measure the EDM orientation angles with respect to the rest of the instrument. The actual configuration will require a trade-off between simplicity and ease of use.
- the GIE survey instrument When the GIE survey instrument has clear access to GPS lines of sight, then it operates like a GPS survey instrument providing precise survey grade location information and the operator does not need to operate the EDM or ZVI.
- the GIE survey instrument When the GIE survey instrument is unable to provide a location fix, it is operating in a precise-GPS-denied zone, and then the operator manipulates the instrument like a walking stick and obtains location information using EDM and/or IMU.
- the ZVI switch closes and thereby signals to the processing software that the ground spike is stationary at its contact point with the ground.
- the processing software makes use of the zero velocity information to control accumulation of velocity errors.
- This mechanism is part of a concept called the walking stick navigator (WSN), the details of which are disclosed in my prior U.S. Patent No. 6,853,909, which is incorporated by reference herein.
- Figure 3 shows the basic concept of the WSN being carried by an operator.
- Figure 2 shows a variation of the basic GIE survey instrument that includes a two antenna GPS attitude array to aid the inertial navigator.
- a two-antenna array provides heading aiding, and is typically all that is required to obtain fast heading alignment and continuous heading error control. Roll and pitch are measured using the accelerometers in the IMU.
- the GIE may have a three-antenna GPS attitude array. In the absence of an IMU, a three-antenna attitude array provides the complete orientation solution.
- the GIE survey instrument contains an AINS architecture as shown in Figure 4. This is a standard algorithm for combining inertial data coming from an IMU with other navigation data, here called aiding data, coming from the GPS receiver, ZVI and EDM.
- the inertial navigator mechanization solves Newton's equations of motion on the earth using the accelerations and angular rates coming from the accelerometers and gyros in the IMU, provided that it has been initialized reasonably well.
- the initialization process is commonly called alignment.
- the INS solution comprises the IMU position, velocity and orientation (roll, pitch and heading).
- the orientation of the IMU can be used as the pointing angles of the EDM laser. Consequently the GIE survey instrument can compute the polar coordinates of a target point with respect to its own position using the IMU orientation and EDM range measurement.
- an aided inertial navigation system (ADSfS) Kah ⁇ tan filter can use the EDM range measurements to known target positions to aid the ESfS and thereby better regulate its position and orientation errors.
- ADSfS aided inertial navigation system
- the managed traverse method provides a method of traversing a precise-GPS-denied zone.
- Figure 5 shows a simple example of a precise-GPS-denied zone generated by a tree and a target point 42 to be surveyed located under the tree.
- the precise-GPS- denied zone is shown by a circle 40.
- the operator places two or more retro-reflectors 44 near the perimeter of the precise-GPS-denied zone.
- the retro-reflectors are mounted on light tripods and hence are self-supporting. The operator simply places the retro-reflector tripods on sufficiently solid ground so that they do not move, in a pattern that provides a reasonable trilateration geometry around and in the precise-GPS-denied zone.
- the operator then surveys the positions of the retro-reflectors 44 using the GIE survey instrument 10 outside of the precise-GPS-denied zone, where the GIE survey instrument accuracy is at the centimeter level. Because the GIE survey instrument implements an aided INS, it computes the roll, pitch and heading of the instrument and hence the EDM line of sight. This allows the instrument to compute the relative position of the retro-reflector 44 with respect to the GIE survey instrument in terms of polar coordinates (azimuth, elevation, range) and thereby transfer the precise GIE survey instrument position to the retro-reflectors 44.
- the retro-reflector position error due to roll, pitch or azimuth error will be proportionally related to distance between the GIE instrument and the retro reflector.
- azimuth error is the largest source of position error in a single polar coordinate measurement of relative position.
- the operator can perform two or more measurements of the retro-reflector position from different GIE survey instrument positions to obtain statistical averaging of errors and to eliminate the effect of azimuth error by using range trilateration.
- the operator records the retro-reflector positions for future use in the data logger.
- the operator then enters the precise-GPS-denied zone 40, and manipulates the GIE survey instrument in walking stick fashion as described in my prior U.S. Patent No. 6,853,909.
- the operator periodically measures ranges to the retro-reflector 44. These steps are used to control the orientation (roll, pitch and azimuth) errors in the GIE survey instrument's aided INS, and to provide aiding information to reduce the accumulation of tracking errors.
- the operator reaches the target point, he places the ground spike 22 on the target point 42 and measures ranges to all retro-reflectors 44.
- the aided INS in the GIE survey instrument computes a precise target point position using these ranges.
- the operator may then exit the precise-GPS-denied zone 40 in the same way he entered, again in order to control the aided INS orientation errors.
- the operator may exit the zone at a different location. Whenever the operator exits the zone, he may obtain position information using the GPS receiver.
- An IMU typically contains the accelerometers and gyros, and the electronics for digitizing the IMU data.
- a processing computer may be provided to run the INS equations.
- the same computer (or processor) can run the other algorithms in an INS.
- the same computer (or processor) may run the managed traverse in IFNA algorithms in a GIE.
- the retro-reflectors may be spheres such as ping pong balls.
- the advantage of using a sphere as a target is that the measured distance is unbiased from any direction provided the EDM laser spot is on the sphere center.
- the GIE instrument remains stationary and the spherical target is rotated through any angle but not displaced, then the distance measured by the EDM will remain unchanged.
- Elements of the managed traverse method according to the embodiment are (1) using a GIE survey instrument containing an aided INS, (2) a method of range determination to fixed targets, and (3) a method of surveying the fixed target positions.
- the aided INS performs the optimal information blending in its Kalman filter that generates the target position.
- the method of range determination discussed above was an EDM 16 on the GIE survey instrument and an array of tripod-mounted retro-reflectors. Alternative methods of ranging can also work if they are capable of centimeter level accuracy.
- One such alternative discussed below is a technique called simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM), which uses video images to extract range to fixed targets in the images.
- SLAM simultaneous location and mapping
- a dead-reckoning system will accumulate position error as it traverses without position information.
- the GIE survey instrument with laser range aiding will control its position errors during a managed traverse to within the accumulated orientation error.
- a simple example of how an azimuth error affects the computed target position error is shown in Figure 6.
- Figure 7 shows forward-time, reverse-time and smoothed estimation processes.
- the forward- time estimation process optimally combines current and past information from aiding sensors.
- the reverse-time estimation process uses current and future information from aiding sensors, and hence can run only in post-processing from recorded data.
- the smoothed estimation process is an optimal combination of the forward-time and reverse-time estimation processes.
- the smoothed position error is smaller than either of the forward-time and reverse-time position errors, a consequence of using all past, present and future information at each time point.
- the accelerometers and gyros in the IMU contain instrument errors such as biases, scale factor errors and nonorthogonality errors that the AINS Kalman filter attempts to estimate using currently available aiding data.
- the AINS will accumulate an azimuth error due to the bias in the azimuth gyro that the Kalman filter has been unable to calibrate.
- a common technique in least-squares estimation to use future information to update a current estimate is smoothing. This involves an estimation process that runs backwards on the data to carry future information to a current estimate.
- IFNA In-Field Field Network Adjustment
- the GIE survey instrument implementing EFNA will record all inertial and aiding data during a managed traverse, and will compute a smoothed target survey position once it transits out of the precise-GPS-denied zone.
- the precise GPS position fixes at either end of the managed traverse will significantly improve the position accuracy in the middle of the traverse. In this case, the improvement will come from the smoothed orientation error combined with EDM range measurements.
- SLAM Simultaneous Location And Mapping
- SLAM is a method of using a mobile robot or unmanned vehicle to navigate in an unfamiliar space.
- SLAM uses sequences of images from one or more video cameras to identify fixed features and then builds a map of these fixed features and the robot's location among them.
- Two key image processing techniques are applied.
- One is image segmentation and feature extraction.
- SLAM uses this to identify particular features that are known to be stationary and hence valid reference points in 3D space. Typical choices are trees in an outdoor setting or light fixtures in an indoor setting.
- the other technique is stereo imaging to extract depth and hence range-to-feature information.
- SLAM builds a map of the features in a 3D coordinate grid as it images them from different robot positions, and thereby determines its own position in that grid.
- the mapping and self-location process is implemented in a single Kalman filter that estimates all variables.
- the instrument may include a video camera with sufficiently small pixel size on the order of less than 2 cm via either a large CCD or a narrow field of view (FOV).
- the narrow FOV is the less expensive approach but can limit the utility of the instrument since the operator must manually select features and aim the camera at them.
- a wide FOV allows the camera to capture features automatically, but requires a fine resolution and hence a large CCD array to obtain a centimeter- level pixel size.
- the instrument would include a SLAM processing algorithm that inputs images at a frame rate dictated by the instrument dynamics (5 frames per second should be adequate for a hand-held instrument) and outputs the positions of the fixed targets it has identified and the instrument position all in a relative Cartesian coordinate frame whose x-y axis is determined by the initial orientation of the instrument.
- the AINS Kalman filter would then use the SLAM position information in addition to inertial, GPS and zero velocity data to compute the optimal position and to update the SLAM processor's estimates of fixed target positions. If the GIE survey instrument is operated in full RTK mode outside of a precise-GPS-denied zone, then all target position errors can be reduced to 1-2 cm. When the GIE survey instrument enters a precise-GPS-denied zone, then SLAM plus AINS orientation data provides the position information to maintain RTK position accuracy.
- the SLAM image segmentation and feature extraction algorithm can be designed for a particular feature such as an unusual shape and/or color, selected to make segmentation and extraction simple and reliable.
- the operator may deploy tripods carrying this feature in place of the retro- reflectors described previously. This would ensure that the desired features for SLAM are always present. It would also simplify the SLAM software running in the SLAM processor and possibly the design of the video camera.
- Figure 8 shows how a GIE survey instrument might navigate through a field of targets, either naturally occurring or placed by the operator.
- a proper SLAM-based GIE survey instrument mission should be designed so that the camera can view the targets with sufficiently strong geometry to allow their simultaneous position measurement and positioning of the instrument.
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