Leica Geosystems Ag

Konrad Von Arb

Daniel Moser

Joel Martin

Stephen Kyle

A target equipped with a reflector can be tracked in a measuring system including a laser tracker. The reflector is tracked by means of a tracking unit in a normal tracking mode and by means of a surveying device in an extraordinary tracking mode. A capturing unit having a detection range lying between the detection ranges of the tracking unit and of the surveying device is also present. If the target cannot be detected by the tracking unit but can be detected by the capturing unit, the orientation of the tracking unit is controlled according to a measurement by the capturing unit. If the target can then be detected by the tracking unit, a transition to the normal tracking mode is initiated. If the target can be detected only by the surveying device, the orientation of the tracking unit is controlled according to a measurement of the surveying device.

Tracking method and measuring system having a laser tracker

A measuring system including a measuring device with a laser tracker and an opto-electronic sensor having fixed positions relative to one another and an auxiliary measuring tool with a reflector and at least three light spots, is calibrated. The auxiliary measuring tool is rigidly coupled with an arrangement of auxiliary reflectors and is moved around at least two different rotation axes. Reflector and auxiliary reflectors are registered by the laser tracker and the light spots are registered by the opto-electronic sensor. From the data of the laser tracker, positions and orientations of the reflector arrangement relative to the laser tracker and from the data of the opto-electronic sensor, positions and orientations of the light spot arrangement relative to the opto-electronic sensor are calculated and the two rotation axes relative to the reflector arrangement and the light spot arrangement are calculated. Calibration data are calculated by equating corresponding rotation axes.

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