A high-tech robot has joined the front line of the Sunbury Road Upgrade to continue Major Road Projects Victoria’s surveying technology revolution.
The new state-of-the-art robot ‘Lionel’ was unveiled this month to assist surveyors with line-marking.
Program director Dipal Sorathia said the newest edition to the team is helping to get the job done faster and safer.
“We’re equipping our surveyors with the latest innovations available so that they can complete their important work in the most safe and efficient way possible,” he said.
“On the Sunbury Road Upgrade, the robot has been completing surveying activities in around an eighth of the time that it would normally take to do the job on foot.”
The Tyker robot plotter is designed to assist surveyors to complete work without the strain of bending over to mark points and lines on the road next to live traffic.
Lionel uses real-time kinematic positioning to deliver extremely precise, reliable measurements, and means surveyors can move Lionel from a safer location, off from the road or even in a vehicle.
Over winter Lionel was put through its paces to paint lines near the Bulla-Diggers Rest Loemans Road roundabout.
This work was previously done by hand and took up to two hours to complete one kilometer of line marking.
Lionel was able to complete the job in 15 minutes, helping to reduce the amount of time a road needs to be closed for line-marking.
Lionel is the second robot to join Major Road Projects Victoria, after TinySurveyor Terra joined the Craigieburn Road Upgrade in July.
