Abstract: A collaboration management system, comprising a database having stored operator information about the participating operators, the operator information of each operator comprising at least one operator class assigned to the respective operator; a data receiver configured to receive a data stream comprising a plurality of electronic messages from a plurality of communicating agents, each electronic message comprising at least one piece of information; a message parser operatively coupled with the data receiver, the message parser configured to parse the received electronic messages to extract pieces of information of the parsed electronic messages and to classify the electronic messages according to one or more ontologies from a set of pre-defined ontologies; a recommendation engine operatively coupled with the message parser and the database; and a data distributor operatively coupled with the recommendation engine.

Abstract: Scanning method and scanning device for automatic scan point reduction, wherein a number of scan points are generated optoelectronically by detection of a measuring beam, in particular of a laser scanner or total station, with which objects' surfaces are sampled point-by-point, the scan points representing spatial positions of sampled surface points. The method comprises automatically reducing the generated number of scan points during the optoelectronic scanning by discarding of scan points, whereby the reduction of scan points is object and/or shape type-specific, whereby object type respectively shape type refers to the kind of object respectively shape.

Abstract: A computer system for controlling access to digital data and algorithms, including a multitude of local systems provided at a plurality of remote locations. At least a first subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data acquisition device adapted to generate and provide raw digital data. At least a second subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data processing unit having a memory with a memory capacity and a processor with a computing capacity to process raw digital data to generate processed digital data to be presented to one or more of a plurality of users of the system. The system also includes a filter system, wherein at least one filter is assigned at each local system, each filter having a filter setting for restricting and prohibiting data transfer between the assigned local system and other local systems.

Abstract: A method for correcting tool parameters of a machine tool for machining workpieces includes recording measurement values of measured characteristics as actual values of at least one workpiece machined with the machine tool. The measurement values are compared with the default set values of the workpiece. The measurement values of at least two measured characteristics are recorded from at least two parameters of at least one measured characteristic and/or from at least one measured characteristic and from at least one parameter. An average for a tool correction value is calculated from the measurement values and the corresponding set values, with which a correction of the machine tool is performed.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to a fully automatic method for calculating the current, geo-referenced position and alignment of a terrestrial scan-surveying device in situ on the basis of a current panoramic image recorded by the surveying device and at least one stored, geo-referenced 3D scan panoramic image.

Abstract: A target reflector search device. This device comprises an emitting unit for emitting an emission fan, a motorized device for moving the emission fan over a spatial region, and a receiving unit for reflected portions of the emission fan within a fan-shaped acquisition region, and a locating unit for determining a location of the reflection. An optoelectronic detector of the receiving unit is formed as a position-resolving optoelectronic detector having a linear arrangement of a plurality of pixels, each formed as an SPAD array, and the receiving unit comprises an optical system having an imaging fixed-focus optical unit, wherein the optical system and the optoelectronic detector are arranged and configured in such a way that portions of the optical radiation reflected from a point in the acquisition region are expanded on the sensitivity surface of the optoelectronic detector in such a way that blurry imaging takes place.

Abstract: A distance meter for the high-accuracy single-point distance measurement to a target point by means of an oriented emitted beam, wherein the receiver has an optoelectronic sensor based on an arrangement of microcells for acquiring the received beam. The receiver and a computer unit are configured in this case for deriving a set of runtimes with respect to different cross-sectional components of the received beam acquired using subregions of the receiver, and therefore, for example, an evaluation is enabled as to whether the received beam has parts of the emitted beam reflected on a single target or a multiple target in its lateral extension.

Abstract: An electro-optic distance meter according to the time-of-flight principle with a receiver chain for generating a digital signal from a received light pulse, the receiver chain comprising a photodetector, a first gain stage, in particular a transimpedance amplifier or a current-mode electronic, for converting an input current from the photodetector associated to the returned light pulse into an output voltage, a filter and an analog-to-digital converter, whereby the digital signal provides an unambiguous relationship between intensity-time delay of the optical pulse and signalshape-time delay of the electrical signal, wherefore the photodetector, the first gain stage and the analog-to-digital converter are adapted to each other such that the analog-to-digital converter remains unclipped in a linear operating range even when the first gain stage shows a non-linear time-invariant response or a well-defined time-invariant saturation response to the input current of the photodetector.

Abstract: A method of associating data from a plurality of databases is disclosed. The method comprises accessing a first database comprising a first dataset and a second database comprising a second dataset. The method further comprises identifying a first set of expressions and a second set of expressions corresponding to the first dataset and the second dataset, respectively. The method further comprises determining a first set of clusters and a second set of clusters corresponding to the first database and the second database, respectively. Furthermore, the method comprises creating a relational database based on a set of relationships and a mapping function determined based on the first set of clusters and the second set of clusters.

Abstract: A computer system for controlling access to digital data and algorithms, including a multitude of local systems provided at a plurality of remote locations. At least a first subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data acquisition device adapted to generate and provide raw digital data. At least a second subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data processing unit having a memory with a memory capacity and a processor with a computing capacity to process raw digital data to generate processed digital data to be presented to one or more of a plurality of users of the system. The system also includes a filter system, wherein at least one filter is assigned at each local system, each filter having a filter setting for restricting and prohibiting data transfer between the assigned local system and other local systems.

Abstract: An inclination sensor for determining an angle of inclination relative to the gravitational vector includes comprising a fluid container and a first pressure sensor pair configured to measure a hydrostatic pressure in the connecting fluid. Temperature sensors are assigned to the sensors. A processor is configured to determine: a relative height (h) in the direction of gravity between the pressure sensors, an angle of inclination with respect to the gravitational vector based on the determined relative height (h) and the fixed locations of the pressure sensors, and relative height in the direction of gravity and the angle of inclination, also based on the measured temperatures.

Abstract: A measuring device can have a scanning functionality for optical surveying of an environment, wherein the measuring device has a sensor comprising an assembly of microcells as a receiving surface and direction-dependent active sections of the receiver are defined depending on the transmission direction of the transmitted radiation, in order to adapt the active receiver surface to a varying imaging position of the received radiation.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including selecting one or more sequences of machining types for a feature of one or more features, where the selection of the one or more sequences of machining types is based on the feature and a database of prior selections of machining types; selecting one or more tools for the selected one or more sequences of machining types, where the selection of the one or more tools is based on the feature, the selected one or more sequences of machining types, and a database of prior selections of one or more tools; and selecting one or more machining parameters for the selected one or more tools, where the selected machining parameters are based on the feature, the selected one or more sequences of machining types, the selected one or more tools, and a database of prior selections of one or more machining parameters.

Abstract: An opto-electronic dual-comb interferometric distance measuring method and device wherein a signal comb is chromatically divided into a target signal comb and a non-target signal comb at a emission position, preferably by an optical interleaver in a measurement probe of the device. Only the target signal comb serves as a free beam emitted to the target. The non-target signal comb serves for generation of additional or compensation internal phase differences. Thus, the distance to the target is based on first, target related phase differences and on the second, internal compensation phase differences.

Abstract: A coordinate measuring system for determining 3D coordinates of an object, comprising a coordinate measuring device comprising an arrangement of sensors configured to generate measurement data from which 3D coordinates of measurement points on the object are derivable, and a computing device configured to determine, based on the measurement data, 3D coordinates of the measurement points, and for storing nominal data of the object in a data storage, the nominal data comprising nominal dimension data of the object for a pre-defined temperature, wherein the nominal data comprises one or more expansion coefficients of the object, the coordinate measuring system comprises at least one temperature sensor that is configured to determine actual temperature values of the object, the at least one temperature sensor is configured to generate temperature data; and the computing device is configured to determine tempered coordinates of the object.

Abstract: An opto-electronic distance measuring module and a surveying device comprising the opto-electronic distance measuring module. The opto-electronic distance measuring module comprises a laser diode or a low power fiber laser as emission unit of a distance measuring beam, wherein a finite emission code sequence with N chips is emitted and cross-correlated with a reference signal for generating a compressed pulse. In order to provide sufficient pulse compression and accurate timing of the compressed pulse, the reference signal is configured to have a number of chips larger than N and is formed by reference signal components which take up a bipolar shape of expected receiver output signal components which can be assigned to respective light pulses of the emission code sequence.

Abstract: Methods and systems enhance the ability of a CAD system operator to add a new element to a CAD drawing, and/or edit a CAD drawing when moving a pre-existing element of the CAD drawing, by automatically generating and displaying over the CAD drawing a set of glyphs, where each glyph visually indicates to the CAD operator a point in the CAD drawing at which a new element, or a previously-drawn element being moved, will satisfy a minimum desired clearance distance from another element of the CAD drawing.

Abstract: An intuitive interface that allows a non-technical person to search a computer database without having to understand the underlining database software or its structure by assembling a graphical database query.

Abstract: A metrology system comprising a target object, a metrology instrument and a control unit configured for controlling an alignment of the targeting unit and for deriving an orientation of the target object. The metrology instrument comprises a zoom objective, an illumination unit and a time-of-flight sensor comprising an array of pixels and capable of providing range data for each pixel of the array as point cloud data, the time-of-flight sensor provides the distance measuring device. The control unit comprises an object determination functionality which provides receiving the point cloud data provided by the time-of-flight sensor, deriving a digital representation of the target object by processing the point cloud data, comparing the digital representation of the target object with a reference pattern of the target object, and determining the orientation of the target object based on the comparison of the digital representation of the target object with the reference pattern.

Abstract: A surveying system for measuring the position of a measuring point, the surveying system including a survey pole with a pointer tip for contacting the measuring point, and position giving means for making available the coordinative determination of a referenced position, the position giving means being placed on the body with a defined spatial relationship relative to the tip, a control and evaluation unit for deriving the position of the measuring point at least based on the determined referenced position and on the defined spatial relationship of the position giving means relative to the tip, and an inertial measurement unit comprising IMU sensors, a motion tracker configured to derive motions and/or motion patterns of the survey pole, wherein, if a derived motion or motion pattern corresponds to a defined motion pattern, the surveying system is configured to automatically perform an action associated with the defined motion pattern.