Hybrid Positioning™

The Hybrid Positioning™ mode allows you to simultaneously record the point coordinates from GNSS rover receiver and Total Station to the opened job. This option can be activated only for Robotic Total Station with reflector. The GNSS receiver and Robotic Total Station are connected to the job. The user can separately create own configuration for a GNSS receiver and for Robotic Total Station and depending on survey task switch between the GNSS or Optical instrument by clicking the / button in the title bar.

To activate Hybrid Positioning™ select the appropriate check box in the Connections dialog.

When you activate the Hybrid Positioning™, you can:

  1. Perform resection with new features. More...
  2. Automatically search for a Reflector
  3. Load the WMS map backgrounds for the Total Station measurements to the opened job (activate in the Backgrounds tab of the Map Properties dialog).
  4. Send the coordinates measured by Total Station in WGS-84 coordinate system to the MAGNET Enterprise server.

In surveying process, if point coordinates determination are performed by the GNSS receiver and the optical device at the same time, it is required to mount the GNSS antenna and the reflector. One of the possible solutions is the usage of the A7 prism with the special adapter for the GNSS antenna or GNSS receiver. See the picture below:

For this case you need to select the corresponding prism for Foresight point in the Targets dialog. For the prism the software will automatically use the predefined offset between ARP and horizontal optical axis for calculating of the point elevation when Hybrid Positioning™ is selected.

If you do not have "Topcon A7 360" prism, you can create own prism by clicking the Add button in the Targets dialog), enter offset between ARP and horizontal optical axis and select the Hybrid Positioning™ antenna offset check box.

Note: Review the detailed information on how to set the antenna height in a single equipment setup ready for both, Hybrid Positioning™ and standard GNSS surveys.

The Hybrid Lock button is available in the Tools Panel during Robotic TS surveys if either localization is performed, or Grid to Ground transformation is selected, or a Grid coordinate system is used. Clicking this button automatically turns the Robotic Total Station to the reflector. To search the reflector, the software uses the coordinates of the occupation point (where the Robotic Total Station is set) and current coordinates in WGS-84 coordinate system of a point where the rod (with GNSS antenna and reflector) is set.