The data card, which contains the digital terrain model (DTM), is placed into the machine-control system's computer. The next step is to "localize" or "calibrate" the system by instructing it to ...

Machine control technologies range from 2D and 3D grade control to automation, robotic control, and augmented reality. GPS/3D control – eliminating the need for placing stringline by hand – is ...

Under the intelligent gaze of a Trimble robotic total station, A Propst Construction (Concord, N.C.) motor grader, operated by Raymond McDonald, blades off a treated and compacted base for new lanes ...

No audio available for this content. A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the March 2024 issue of GPS World magazine. PozStar P5 is a high-precision GNSS ...

Construction equipment machine control is extending into more classes of equipment and encompassing lighter equipment. Grade control in particular is making its way beyond dedicated excavation and ...

Guidance and precision control, the base elements of modern machine control for construction, have continued to evolve since broad productization began in the mid-1990s. However, the value proposition ...