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Image: Civ RoboticsCivDot
Autonomous GNSS rover that spray-marks site layout points on rough terrain
- 9
- Deployments
- 5
- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
CivDot is a four-wheel-drive rover that drives to coordinates from an uploaded CSV file and sprays a paint mark at each point, using RTK corrections from a Trimble, Topcon, Leica or NTRIP base. It covers site-level horizontal layout on open outdoor ground; vertical layout, interior layout and control-point work stay with the survey crew.
Site-Level Horizontal Layout
CivDot drives to each coordinate in an uploaded CSV file and sprays a paint mark at the position. One operator supervises the run from up to 100 feet away.
Who has run it
9 deployments · 5 companies
Will it work on your site
- Surface
- Rough outdoor ground on slopes up to 30 degrees; 10 in (25 cm) ground clearance and several tire options
- Site preparation
- CSV or DXF file upload to CivPlan; GNSS base station or NTRIP connection established
- Power
- Swappable battery: 10 hours of operation with one swap, 4-hour charge
- Environment
- Outdoor only (GNSS-dependent); vendor states IP65 ratingIP65 rating not independently verified
- Autonomy
- Drives itself between coordinates and sprays each mark; one operator supervises from up to 100 ft away
- Control
- CivPlan mission planning software
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- BIM/CAD
- No BIM required; accepts CSV (points) and DXF (linework)
- Navigation
- GNSS RTK (multi-brand compatible); halts when RTK fix is lost
- Operator profile
- Minimal training; no surveying experience needed
- Throughput
- vendor: up to 3,000 points per day, up to 8x faster than manual methods; manual crews mark 200 to 450 points per dayManual baseline is 200 to 450 points/day per two-person crew
- Positional accuracy
- vendor: 1/10 ft (30 mm); dual RTK for heading plus an IMU for tilt correction
As the maker states it.
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