New Alignment System for Tunneling Machines To Be Tested
Monitoring the device requires a laptop and a lot of know-how.
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Because of an obscured field of vision, different tactics and algorithms were developed for micro-tunneling and drainage tunneling.
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Three prism sensors are necessary to fill out the equation that triangulates the location of the entire length of the TBM.
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Lu says the surveyors claim they don’t feel threatened by the alignment-and-surveying tool. “They told us we’re lending a big hand to help alleviate their resource constraints," Lu says. "They need this real-time data online for tunnel-alignment survey.”
