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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – A patent application by the inventors Bryner, Edward A. (Pittsburgh, PA, US); Bushyeager, Weston (Pittsburgh, PA, US); Pinero, Alberto (Pittsburgh, PA, US); Roy, Mayank (Pittsburgh, PA, US), filed o n May 29, 2024, was made available online on September 26, 2024, according to ne ws reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “The present disclosure relates to robotic inspe ction and treatment of industrial surfaces. These may be performed by a robotic total system (RTS) (or “robotic total station”). In the geospatial and land surv eying industries, which are example industries in which RTS systems may be deplo yed, RTS systems are provided with a laser range finder tracking head along with what is known as an RTS prism. So long as the laser tracking head has line of s ight with a single trihedral corner (TC) reflector, the TC reflector is oriented correctly, and it is within range, it can accurately plot a location in 3D spac e based on the location of the TC reflector. RTS prisms may be constructed with a single TC reflector or with several TC reflectors oriented to reflect all ligh t from a singular point in free space. In an RTS system, the laser tracking head has a fixed (X, Y, Z) position. Additionally, the laser tracking head acts as t he origin of a laser beam. The RTS prism, unlike the laser head, is free to move about 3-dimensional (“3D”) space while the distance and angle between the two a re measured.
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