Leica's pinpoint EDM technology with modified signal processing and novel optomechanical features
Bayoud, Fadi A.
With innovation, precision and reliability being the main targets of Leica Geosystems AG Total Stations, modernisations have recently focused on the software and hardware components of the PinPoint Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) technology. Aiming at further improving the laser beam light distribution and its stability along with minimising the power consumption, a new optomechanical concept was developed that allows the combination of a reflectorless and reflector based EDM using a single laser beam emitter. This new hardware is supported by Leicaas unique System Analyser signal processing toolbox that permits an efficient assessment of the reflecting signals to achieve the accuracy, precision and reliability that mark Leicaas Total Stations. These two features are a part of other modifications that will identify the future of Leicaas EDM. In this paper, the presentation of these new developments is laid out and field tests are analysed.
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