1. HYPACK HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

2. HYPACK® HARDWARE: Combined
HYPACK HARDWARE, HYSWEEP HARDWARE & SIDE SCAN HARDWARE are now combined in a single HYPACK HARDWARE!

3. HYPACK Configuration Page
Right-click on ‘Hardware’ to add another mobile.
For multibeam, check “Include”. That creates a ‘HYSWEEP Survey’ listing. Then click on the listing to add your multibeam, MRU and gyro systems.
If you have a multibeam device, check the “HYSWEEP Survey - Include” box. If you have a Sidescan, check the “Sidescan Survey - Include” box. If you have both, check the “HYSWEEP Survey - Include” and configure both of them under Multibeam.

4. Vessel Page: Mobile Tab
You can now rename the primary vessel!
Specify the Tracking Point for each mobile. This is the point used to determine the distance off-line, distance to-go, etc.

5. Vessel Page: Survey Devices Tab
This is where you go to specify the devices used on each mobile.

6. Vessel Page: Vessel Shape Tab
You can visually inspect the location of your sensors and pick your default 2-D boat shape for HYPACK SURVEY.

7. Devices: Survey Devices Tab
Click on a vessel to add devices.
Click on an installed device to access the functions and options

8. Devices: Connect Tab Click to get the Device Connection window.
You can examine the serial port stream from here:
You can test the device from here.

9. Devices: Device Offsets Tab
Specify the position for each device, relative to your boat origin. Remember, Z is positive downwards!

10. Mobiles How many independent positions we are tracking…1 1 2
Survey Boat with Towfish
2 Mobiles
Simple Survey Boat
1 Mobile 1 1 2 3 2
Dual Arm Hopper Dredge
3 Mobiles
Cutter Suction Dredge
2 (or 3) Mobiles

11. One Mobile: GPS & SB Echosounder
Transducer
Primary Mobile = ‘R/V Smokey’
1st Device = GPS
2nd Device = Odom MKIII
A ‘mobile’ is an object that will be independently tracked by SURVEY.
All ‘devices’ on a mobile can be positioned by applying their offsets to the mobile position and heading.
A basic configuration with a GPS and an Echosounder needs 1 mobile.

12. One Mobile: GPS, SB Sounder & MRU
Primary Mobile = ‘Boat’
1st Device = GPS
2nd Device = Odom MKIII
3rd Device = DMS-05 MRU
GPS
MRU
Transducer
Add an MRU to your hardware.
There is still only one ‘Mobile’.
All devices can be positioned by knowing the position and heading of their mobile and by applying their offset information.
If you had a multibeam system, the MRU would be installed under the Multibeam equipment listing.

13. Example Hardware Configurations
Survey vessel with magnetometer installed on towfish with manual layback.
Survey vessel with R2Sonic multibeam installed on the vessel.
Survey vessel with Edgetech sidescan installed on a towfish.
The multibeam and/or sidescan are placed on the main vessel or the towfish mobile depending on the setting in the HYPACK Configuration tab.

14. Device Functions and Options
Optional functionality can be selected for certain devices:
Record raw messages
Record device specific messages:
GPS: Records time synch differences
Echosounders: Records acoustic ping for each ping.
Use of Matrix Update: The device will be used to update the Matrix file in HYPACK SURVEY.
For each device, you must specify the function(s) of the device.
Device drivers will only list the functions which are possible for a device.
These settings are located in the Devices: Survey Devices tab.

15. Single Beam Echosounder Placement:
CO-LOCATE GPS ANTENNA WITH SINGLE BEAM TRANSDUCER Y X
GPS
Transducer
To eliminate any errors due to inaccurate heading, try to locate the GPS antenna directly above your single-beam echosounder transducer.

16. RS-232 Serial Tools
In HYPACK HARDWARE, click ‘Options – ComQuery’ to see what serial ports are recognized by Windows.
In HYPACK HARDWARE, click ‘Options –WCOM32’ to test serial communications and port settings.
You can log data received in WCOM32 to a text file and it to us if you have problems with a driver.
WCOM32 AVI

17. Serial Port Stuff Adding Serial Ports: Good Options:
Use a PCMCIA or PC Express Serial Card
Use a RS-232 to Network Conversion Box (MUX)
Use a Quatech QSU2-100 Serial to USB 2.0 Converter
Very, Very, Bad Option:
Use a Serial to USB 1.0 Converter
RS 232: Short Distance (<30m)
RS 422: Longer Distance (>100m)
You can connect an RS422 device to an RS-232 port.
TX- to RX and SG to SG
When configuring a COM port, you must define:
COMn Port number
Baud Rate How many bits per second (more or less)
Data Bits How many bits in one ‘word’
Stop Bits Bits tacked on to the end of each word
Parity Used to detect transmission errors
Flow control is generally not needed and not desired.

18. Network Stuff
UDP requires an IP address and separate read/write port numbers
TCP requires an IP address and a port number.
It may be necessary to re-set the IP Address for your computer to an address similar to your network device.

19. Analog Devices Require a specific A/D card.
Contact our Support Staff for details
Set ‘Connect’ to ‘None’.
Analog drivers are set up to read specific A/D cards.
Calibration settings will be specified in the device’s Setup window.

20. Setup and Test Buttons Setup:
Now located on the Device: Survey Devices tab.
Used to configure device-dependent settings.
Each device could be different
Some devices have no Setup.
Test
Now located on the Device: Connect tab.
Tests communications with the device using the Survey device driver.
Don’t test when the port is open in SURVEY or WCOM32!

21. GPS Configuration Recommended NMEA messages: $GPGGA: 1 to 10Hz Normal
20 Hz for RTK Heave
WGS-84 Lat/Long, Differential Status, # of Sats, Ellipsoid Height, HDOP.
$GPZDA: 1 Hz Only!
Used in Time Synchronization
$GPVTG: 1 Hz
Speed and Course Over Ground
$GPHDT: 1 Hz SB or 10Hz MB
Vessel heading from directional antennae
$GPGSV: 1 Hz
Satellite positions and health
$GPGST: 1 Hz
Standard Error Information
HDOP (Green), # of Sats (Blue), Status: (Red)
Error Ellipse (Requires $GPGST sentence)
RTK Math Window
Sky Plot (Requires $GPGSV sentence)

22. GPS: Setup Window - General
Synchronization:
Are you using a 1PPS box?
Graph synch values:
Definitely recommended!
RTK TIDE
Minimum status:
Fixed RTK recommended.
Filter RTK Tide:
Recommended on dredges.
Not recommended on survey vessels.

23. GPS: Setup Window -Alarms
Maximum HDOP Value
Recommended: 4.0
Minimum number of Satellites:
Recommended: 5
Maximum synch error (ms)
Recommended: 100
Maximum baseline error:
Used when computing bearing between two GPS.
Recommended:
DGPS: 2m
RTK: 0.5m
Suspend Logging: Only stops the logging of positions. Other sensors are still being logged.

24. GPS: Setup Window – GPS Status Codes
Most GPS units made after 2005 use the NMEA 3.0 standard (or later compatible standard).
Set the Codes Standard to ‘None’ to manually set the Code values.

25. GPS: Setup Window – Advanced
Used sentences:
Don’t process unneeded NMEA sentences.
User Modified NMEA Messages:
RTA (Odom): Used when Odom’s RTA unit is provided time-tagged info.
POS (CeeScope): Used when position data is delived by Ceescope.
Use at your own risk:
We’re serious……
NTRIP functionality is provided by the NTRIP.DLL.

26. ECHOSOUNDER SET UP

27. Echosounder: Vertical Offset
R/V DBT
R/V DBS
1 m
1 m
6 m
Sounder outputs 6.0m to computer
Sounder outputs 7.0m to computer
6 m
Outputting Depth Below Transducer (DBT):
Vertical Offset is set to the Static Draft (1.0m in example).
Outputting Depth Below Surface (DBS):
Vertical Offset is set to 0.0
Correct for the Static Draft (depth of transducer below the static waterline) either in the echosounder (bar check) or in HARDWARE (Vertical Offset). DON’T DO IT BOTH PLACES!

28. Echosounder Configuration: Offsets
Enter the offsets of the echosounder transducer, relative to the boat origin.
Vertical Offset:
If your echosounder outputs the Depth Below Surface, then enter a Vertical Offset = 0.0
If your echosounder outputs the Depth Below Transducer, then enter Vertical Offset = Static Draft.
Z = positive downward!
Latency:
For almost all single beam sounders, enter Latency = 0.00.
Enter the combined latency between the GPS and Echosounder determined in the SINGLE BEAM LATENCY program as the latency for the GPS device.

29. Echosounder Configuration
Functions:
Available functions may differ, depending on the echosounder. As a minimum, you want to select ‘Depth’.
Certain echosounders can provide the acoustic data for each ping, allowing the hydrographer to review the data during processing and manually re-digitize the depth data, if necessary. (Requires ‘Record Device Specific Messages.)
Options:
‘Use for matrix update’: Paints a matrix with the color-coded depth data.
‘Paper Annotation’: Enables the output of annotation to the echosounder at event marks.
‘Record device specific messages’: Enables the storage of acoustic data for certain sounders.

30. MRUs in HYPACK

31. Is it being used along with a multibeam sonar?
I have an MRU.
Good for you!
Is it being used along with a multibeam sonar?
Configure it in HYSWEEP® HARDWARE.
Yes! No
How is the MRU integrated?
Do you also want to use the HPR values in HYPACK® SURVEY?
You are done! No
Through the echosounder device driver.
Through its own device driver
Yes!
Make sure the ‘Heave’ function for the echosounder is enabled in HYPACK® HARDWARE
Add the device driver for the MRU in HYPACK® HARDWARE.
Add the HYSWEEP.DLL in HYPACK® HARDWARE
You are done!
You are done!
You are done!

32. Connecting your MRU Computer Computer You can do it this way …..
HPR Data
MRU
Echosounder
MRU
Echosounder
Raw soundings
HPR Data
Heave-corrected soundings
Computer
Computer
You can do it this way …..
We prefer you do it this way.
This is recommended only if your echosounder can output the raw depth and heave measurement as separate entities.
Select the specific device driver for your MRU and configure it!
If you echosounder can output uncorrected depths and MRU data, then we have no objection!

33. Where to put the MRU?
GPS
GPS
MRU
XDucer
MRU
XDucer
Try to mount your MRU at the center of mass of your vessel. If you can’t do this, then mount it as close as possible to the center and carefully measure the offsets.

34. Configuration: GPS and Sounder

35. Adding an MRU

36. Adding another ‘mobile’

37. Configuring a Mobile Open up HYPACK HARDWARE.
Right Click on ‘HYPACK Configuration’ to Add a New Mobile
Fixed on another mobile (e.g. crane cab)
GenOffset.DLL
Towfish.DLL
Trackman.DLL
Inclinometer.DLL…
Moves relative to another mobile (towfish)
Give your mobile a name (optional).
Assign a device driver to position the mobile
Moves independently
GPS.DLL…
Add the other devices assigned to the mobile.
Magnet.DLL…

38. Adding a Towfish Mobile

39. A Mobile in SURVEY