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TopconHiPer+ Operator’s Manual
Preface
Thank you for purchasing this Topcon product. The materials
available in this Manual (the “Manual”) have been prepared by
Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. (“TPS”) for owners of Topcon
products. It is designed to assist owners with the use of the
HiPer+ and its use is subject to these terms and conditions (the
“Terms and Conditions”).
NOTICE
Please read these Terms and Conditions
carefully.
Terms and Conditions
PROFESSIONAL USE – This product is designed to be used by
a professional. The user is required to be a professional surveyor
or have a good knowledge of surveying, in order to understand
the user and safety instructions, before operating, inspecting or
adjusting. Always wear required safety attire (safety shoes, hard
hat, etc.) when operating.
COPYRIGHT – All information contained in this Manual is the
intellectual property of, and copyrighted material of TPS. All
rights are reserved. You may not use, access, copy, store, display,
create derivative works of, sell, modify, publish, distribute, or
allow any third party access to, any graphics, content,
information or data in this Manual without TPS’ express written
consent and may only use such information for the care and
operation of your HiPer+. The information and data in this
Manual are a valuable asset of TPS and are developed by the
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expenditure of considerable work, time and money, and ar e the
result of original selection, coordination and arrangement by
TPS.
TRADEMARKS – Legacy-E™, LegAnt™, HiPer+™, T opcon®
and Topcon Positioning Systems™ are trademarks of TPS.
Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Bluetooth™ is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is
used by Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. under license. Other
product and company names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANT Y
– EXCEPT FOR ANY
WARRANTIES IN APPENDIX D OR A WARRANTY CARD
ACCOMPANYING THE PRODUCT, THIS MANUAL AND
THE HIPER+ ARE PROVIDED “AS-IS.” THERE ARE NO
OTHER WARRANTIES. TPS DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR
ANY PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE. TPS AND ITS
DISTRIBUTORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR
TECHNICAL OR EDITORIAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS
CONTAINED HEREIN; NOR FOR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE
FURNISHING, PERFORMANCE OR USE OF THIS
MATERIAL OR THE HIPER+. SUCH DISCLAIMED
DAMAGES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LOSS
OF TIME, LOSS OR DESTRUCTION OF DATA, LOSS OF
PROFIT, SAVINGS OR REVENUE, OR LOSS OF THE
PRODUCT’S USE. IN ADDITION TPS IS NOT
RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OR COSTS
INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH OBTAINING
SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SOFTWARE, CLAIMS BY
OTHERS, INCONVENIENCE, OR ANY OTHER COSTS. IN
ANY EVENT, TPS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR
DAMAGES OR OTHERWISE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER
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PERSON OR ENTITY IN EXCESS OF THE PURCHASE
PRICE FOR THE HIPER+.
LICENSE AGREEMENT – Use of any computer programs or
software supplied by TPS or downloaded from a TPS website
(the “Software”) in connection with the HiPer+ constitutes
acceptance of these Terms and Conditions in this Manual and an
agreement to abide by these Terms and Conditions. The user is
granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use
such Software under the terms stated herein and in any case only
with a single HiPer+ or single computer. You may not assign or
transfer the Software or this license without the express written
consent of TPS. This license is effective until terminated. You
may terminate the license at any time by destroying the Software
and Manual. TPS may terminate the license if you fail to comply
with any of the Terms or Conditions. You agree to destroy the
Software and manual upon termination of your use of the HiPer+.
All ownership, copyright and other intellectual property rights in
and to the Software belong to TPS. If these license terms are not
acceptable, return any unused software and manual.
CONFIDENTIALITY – This Manual, its contents and the
Software (collectively, the “Confidential Information”) are the
confidential and proprietary information of TPS. You agree to
treat TPS’ Confidential Information with a degree of care no less
stringent that the degree of care you would use in safeguarding
your own most valuable trade secrets. Nothing in this paragraph
shall restrict you from disclosing Confidential Information to your
employees as may be necessary or appropriate to operate or care
for the HiPer+. Such employees must also keep the Confidentiality
Information confidential. In the ev ent you become le gally
compelled to disclose any of the Confidential Information, you
shall give TPS immediate notice so that it may seek a protective
order or other appropriate remedy.
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WEBSITE; O THER STA TEMEN TS – No statement contained
at the TPS website (or any other website) or in any other
advertisements or TPS literature or made by an employee or
independent contractor of TPS modifies these Terms and
Conditions (including the Software license, warranty and
limitation of liability).
SAFETY – Improper use of the HiPer+ can lead to injury to
persons or property and/or malfunction of the product. The
HiPer+ should only be repaired by authorized TPS warranty
service centers. Users should re view and heed the safety
warnings in Appendix C.
MISCELLANEOUS – The above Terms and Conditions may be
amended, modified, superseded, or canceled, at any time by TPS.
The above Terms and Conditions will be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California,
without reference to conflict of laws.
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Regulatory Information
The following sections provide information on this product’s
compliance with government regulations.
FCC Class B Compliance
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rules.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and
2. This device must accept any interference received,
including interference that may cause undesired
operation.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the
limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the
FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference in residential
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installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate
radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in
accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no
guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular
installation.
If this equipment does cause interference to radio or
television equipment reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to
try to correct the interference by on or more of the following
measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Move the equipment away from the receiver.
• Plug the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different
from that to which the receiver is powered.
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television
technician for additional suggestions.
CAUTION
Any changes or modifications to the
equipment not expressly approved by the
party responsible for compliance could void
your authority to operate such equipment.
Canadian Emissions Labeling Requirements
This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the
Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.
Cet appareil numérique de la classe B respecte toutes les
exigences du Réglement sur le matériel brouilleur du Canada.
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Manual Conventions
This manual uses the following conventions:
ExampleDescription
File->ExitClick the File menu and click Exit.
EnterPress or click the button or key labeled Enter.
ORAlternate procedure for this step.
ANDFollow this step, but include this information,
enable this function, or change this property.
TIP
Supplementary information that can help you
configure, maintain, or set up a system.
NOTICE
Supplementary information that can have an
affect on system operation, system
performance, measurements, or personal
safety.
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CAUTION
Notification that an action has the potential
to adversely affect system operation,
system performance, data integrity, or
personal health.
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WARNING
Notification that an action will result in
system damage, loss of data, loss of
warranty, or personal injury.
DANGER
UNDERNOCIRCUMSTANCESSHOULDTHISACTION
BEPERFORMED.
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Introduction
This chapter describes:
• The HiPer+ (Figure 1-1)
• GPS/GLONASS and your receiver
• Common HiPer+ functions
• Standard package contents and configurations
• HiPer+ components
• The Option Authorized File (OAF)
Chapter 1
Figure 1-1. HiPer+ Receiver
Overview
Topcon Positioning System’s HiPer+ is a dual-frequency, GPS+
receiver built to be the most advanced and compact receiver for
the surveying market. The HiPer+ is a multi-function, multipurpose receiver intended for precision markets. Precision
markets means markets for equipment, subsystems, components
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and software for surveying, construction, commercial mapping,
civil engineering, precision agriculture and land-based
construction and agriculture machine control, photogrammetry
mapping, hydrographic and any use reasonably related to the
foregoing.
The HiPer+ can receive and process both L1 and L2 signals,
improving the accuracy of your survey points and positions. The
GPS+ component of HiPer+ receivers means you can access both
the GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites of the United
States, and the GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System)
satellites of the Russian Federation, increasing the number of
satellites your receiver can detect, thus impro ving the accuracy of
your survey points, increasing productivity, and reducing cost.
The dual-frequency and GPS+ features of the HiPer+ combine to
provide the only real time kinematic (RTK) system accurate for
short and long baselines. Several other features, including
multipath mitigation and co-op tracking, provide under-canopy
and low signal strength reception. The HiPer+ receiver provides
the functionality, accuracy, availability, and integrity needed for
fast and easy data collection.
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Principles of Operation
Surveying with the right GPS receiver can pro vide users accurate
and precise positioning, a requirement for any surveying project.
This section gives an overview of GPS and receiver functions to
help you understand and apply GPS principles, allowing you to
get the most out of your receiver.
GPS Overview
The Global Positioning System (GPS), run by the United
States Department of Defense (DoD), is a network of up to
28 satellites (at time of printing) orbiting the earth every 12
hours. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLON ASS),
is the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense counterpart to
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GPS. At any one time, with a standard 15 degree angle, up to
10 or 12 GPS satellites are visible from any point on earth.
When a receiver can also track GLONASS satellites, between
10 and 16 satellites are visible.
The GPS and GLONASS network has three components:
• Space – GPS and GLONASS satellites orbiting
approximately 12,000 nautical miles above Earth and are
equipped with a clock and radio. These satellites
broadcast digital information (ephemerides, almanacs,
time frequency corrections, etc.).
• User – The community and military that use GPS/
GLONASS receivers and the corresponding satellites to
calculate positions.
• Control – Ground stations located around the Earth that
upload data, including clock corrections and new
ephemerides (satellite positions as a function of time), to
ensure the satellites transmit data properly.
GPS receivers use ephemeris and almanac data to calculate
accurate positions, and the positions of your survey points.
Calculating Positions
Once the receiver locks on to a satellite, it starts
recording measurements and receiving the v arious digital
information (ephemeris, almanac, and so on) the
satellites broadcast. To calculate a position, receivers use
the following basic formula:
Velocity x Time = Distance
Where Velocity is the speed at which radio waves travel
(i.e., the speed of light) and Time is the difference
between the signal transmission time and signal
reception time.
To calculate absolute 3-D positions—latitude, longitude,
altitude—the receiver must lock on to four satellites. In a
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mixed, GPS and GLONASS scenario, receiver’s must
lock onto at least five satellites to obtain an absolute
position.
To provide fault tolerance using only GPS or only
GLONASS, the receiver must lock onto a fifth satellite.
Six satellites will provide fault tolerance in mixed
scenarios. Usually, the number of GPS and GLONASS
satellites in view does not exceed twenty (20).
Once locked on to a satellite, the receiver collects
ephemerides and almanacs, saving this information to its
NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM).
• GPS and GLONASS satellites broadcast ephemeris
data cyclically, with a period of 30 seconds.
• GPS satellites broadcast almanac data cyclically with
a period of 12.5 minutes; GLONASS satellites
broadcast almanac data cyclically with a period of
2.5 minutes.
GPS Positioning
Calculating an accurate position requires the following
three elements:
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• Accuracy – The accuracy of a position depends upon
the number, signal integrity, and placement (also
known as Dilution of Precision, or DOP) of satellites.
–Differential GPS (DGPS) strongly mitigates
atmospheric and orbital errors, and counteracts antispoofing signals the US Department of Defense
transmits with GPS signals.
–The more satellites in view, the stronger the signal,
the lower the DOP number, providing more accurate
positioning.
• Availability – The availability of satellites af fects the
calculation of valid positions. The more visible
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satellites available, the more valid and accurate the
position. Natural and man-made objects can block,
interrupt, and weaken signals, lowering the number
of available satellites.
• Integrity – Fault tolerance allows a position to have
greater integrity, increasing accuracy . Several factors
combine to provide fault tolerance, including:
–Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring
(RAIM) detects faulty GPS and GLONASS satellites
and removes them from the position calculation.
–Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) creates
and transmits DGPS correction messages.
–Five or more visible satellites for only GPS or only
GLONASS; six or more satellites for mixed
scenarios.
–Current ephemerides and almanacs.
–Several algorithms to detect and correct faulty
information.
Conclusion
Surveyors can use Topcon GPS+ receivers to collect data
from a network of satellites and control stations to
triangulate precise points anywhere on Earth.
This overview simply outlines the basics of GPS and
GLONASS positioning. For more detailed information,
visit the TPS website (www.topconps.com/gpstutorial/).
Receiver Overview
When power is turned on and the receiver self-test completes,
the receiver’ s 40 channels initialize and be gin tracking visible
GPS and GLONASS satellites. Each of the receiver’s
channels can be used to track C/A-L1, P-L1, or
P-L2 signals. The number of channels available allows the
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receiver to track simultaneously all visible GPS and
GLONASS satellites at any time and location. The
combination GPS and GLONASS (GPS+) antenna receives
the different signals for processing.
An internal GPS+ antenna equipped with an optional low
noise amplifier (LNA) and the receiver’s radio frequency
(RF) device are connected with a coaxial cable. The wideband signal received is down-converted, filtered, digitized,
and assigned to different channels. The receiver processor
controls the process of signal tracking.
Once the signal is locked in the channel, it is demodulated
and necessary signal parameters (carrier and code phases) are
measured. Also, broadcast navigation data are retrieved from
the navigation frame.
After the receiver locks on to four or more satellites, it is
possible to solve the so-called “absolute positioning
problem” and compute the receiver’ s coordinates and time (in
WGS-84). All this information is stored in the receiver’s
memory, which can be downloaded later onto a computer and
processed using a post-processing software package. When
the receiver is run in RTK mode, raw data measurements can
also be recorded into the receiver’s internal memory. This
allows the operator to double check real-time results obtained
in the field.
The HiPer+ comes in a typical real-time kinematic (RTK)
package with a Legacy-E as the Base Station and the HiPer+ as
the Rover (also, refer to the re-packaging instruction card). The
contents of this package include:
•HiPer+
• Legacy-E GPS receiver
• LegAnt-2 flat ground plane antenna
• UHF Base radio kit
• LitePole
• Tripod, tribrach, and adapter
• Pinnacle or Topcon Tools software
• Cables and cords
• Literature
Cables
Standard package cables include:
• Receiver-to-computer RS232 serial cable
• Receiver-to-SAE power cable
• SAE-to-SAE cable extension
• Alligator clips-to-SAE cable
• Power/charger cable
• Power supply W/48” SAFECO connector
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Software
Standard HiPer+ software includes:
• PC-CDU – controller software that can run on a
Windows-based computer . Please refer to the PC-CDU User’s Manual for detailed information on this software.
• GPS radio configuration software – third party software,
such as PDLCONF from Pacific Crest.
Software and software information are also available on the
Topcon website (www.topcongps.com/software/index.html
or http://www.topcongps.com/software/3rdparty.html).
The following software will also be useful for operating,
caring for and using your HiPer+ receiver, and may be
required for some applications.
• FLoader – Topcon’s firmware loader; available on the
Topcon website.
• PDLCONF from Pacific Crest – radio configuration
program included with Base station package; firmware
upgrades available from the Pacific Crest website
(www.paccrst.com/download/upgrade.htm).
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• BTCONF – Topcon’s Bluetooth module configuration
program; available on the Topcon website.
• TopSURV – Topcon’s field data collection software;
among many other functions, can be used to configure
the radio/modem.
• Survey Pro GPS – optional third-party software for data
collection and display; contact your TPS dealer.
• Carlson SurvCE – optional third-party software for data
collection; contact your TPS dealer.
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