3D machine control at RSRG

In the BIM implementation project, RSRG set itself ambitious goals in the different fields of action. Many of these involve lengthy and intensive development work.

On the long road to their goals, the developers of the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group repeatedly achieve intermediate results, which are already of direct use in their daily work and should therefore naturally reach their colleagues on the construction sites as quickly as possible.

One of these results is the preparation of machine data for the 3D machine control of excavators, bulldozers or milling machines. Processes for modelling virtual construction projects or targeted creation of e.g. excavation or pre-ballast levels, derived from track geometries, are already increasingly automated in the RSRG team. Transforming these levels into machine data for 3D control is just another possible use of the information already generated. 

A web interface was set up to standardise the entire process, from the notification of project requirements and the generation of machine data to the provision for the machines and its use, and to automate it at a later stage. In the future, the foreman, for example, should register their requirements and be guided through the necessary information and data files in the input menu. These inputs are transferred together with the files into a process in which the desired machine data is generated and made available at the right place at the right time.

All machine and stakeout data required for a project can be managed and called up on a central construction site platform. This means that every system, whether 3D machine control of an excavator or rover rod for a stakeout, can use the processed data and return the data it has recorded to the system for construction documentation. Since all information is managed and processed via this central hub, specified/actual comparisons can also be made directly and displayed graphically in the system.