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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Memory-Augmented 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Network for Intelligent Mining Shovels.

Yunhao Cui, Zhihui Zhang, Yi An, Zhidan Zhong, Fang Yang, Junhua Wang, Kui He

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Yunhao CuiSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6538-6739
Zhihui ZhangSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.
Yi AnSchool of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2667-122X
Zhidan ZhongSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2360-7908
Fang YangSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6023-5600
Junhua WangSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.ORCID 0009-0008-7113-0036
Kui HeSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0199-5869

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the Joint Fund of Science and Technology Research and Development Plan of Henan Prov-ince under Grants 222102220044the Joint Fund of Science and Technology Research and Development Plan of Henan Prov-ince under Grants 232103810038the Key Research Projects of Higher Education Institutions of Henan Province under Grant 20A460012the Key Research Projects of Higher Education Institutions of Henan Province under Grant 24A460009the Key Technology Research on Heavy Duty Mobile Robot (AGV) for Intelligent Mineral Processing Line 222102220044the Major Science and Technology Project of Henan Province under Grant 231111222900the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62173055the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grant 2023-MS-093the Science and Technology Major Project of Shanxi Province under Grant 20191101014The Tribology Science Fund of State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment SKLTKF22B12
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Abstract

The semantic segmentation of the 3D operating environment represents the key to intelligent mining shovels' autonomous digging and loading operation. However, the complexity of the operating environment of intelligent mining shovels presents challenges, including the variety of scene targets and the uneven number of samples. This results in low accuracy of 3D semantic segmentation and reduces the autonomous operation accuracy of the intelligent mine shovels. To solve these issues, this paper proposes a 3D point cloud semantic segmentation network based on memory enhancement and lightweight attention mechanisms. This model addresses the challenges of an uneven number of sampled scene targets, insufficient extraction of key features to reduce the semantic segmentation accuracy, and an insufficient lightweight level of the model to reduce deployment capability. Firstly, we investigate the memory enhancement learning mechanism, establishing a memory module for key semantic features of the targets. Furthermore, we address the issue of forgetting non-dominant target point cloud features caused by the unbalanced number of samples and enhance the semantic segmentation accuracy. Subsequently, the channel attention mechanism is studied. An attention module based on the statistical characteristics of the channel is established. The adequacy of the expression of the key features is improved by adjusting the weights of the features. This is done in order to improve the accuracy of semantic segmentation further. Finally, the lightweight mechanism is studied by adopting the deep separable convolution instead of conventional convolution to reduce the number of model parameters. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of semantic segmentation in the 3D scene and reduce the model's complexity. Semantic segmentation accuracy is improved by 7.15% on average compared with the experimental control methods, which contributes to the improvement of autonomous operation accuracy and safety of intelligent mining shovels.

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3D point cloud semantic segmentationintelligent mining shovelslightweight attention mechanismmemory enhancement

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