基于栅格法的井工矿多激光雷达障碍物检测

Obstacle detection in underground mines using multiple LiDARs based on grid method

  • 摘要: 针对井工矿障碍物检测中因高程结构点云过滤困难和地面分割精度不足导致的误识别与漏识别问题,提出了一种基于栅格法的井工矿多激光雷达障碍物检测方法。首先,采用条件滤波进行点云的裁剪和去噪,将条件滤波后的多激光雷达点云数据进行融合,再进行体素降采样,完成点云预处理。其次,将预处理后的点云投影到二维栅格,依据栅格与车体的距离划分远近距离栅格,并分别计算各栅格的巷道地面高度和顶部高度特征,更新车体附近栅格和每行栅格特征,基于点云分布和前后行栅格的连续性,采用由近到远、逐行更新的策略进行全局栅格特征更新,实现对巷道地面和顶部特征的精准计算。最后,基于栅格特征进行地面分割,从非地面点云中过滤掉高程结构点云,再对剩余点云进行欧氏聚类,从中检测出障碍物。井下测试结果表明:该方法可有效过滤上下坡及点云稀疏工况中的高程结构点云;对信号箱、锥形桶、低矮支架和车辆等低矮目标检测的准确率分别为92.3%,90.9%,96.5%和100%;在不同工况巷道中,有效减少了误识别和漏识别,具有较高的障碍物检测准确率。

     

    Abstract: To address the issues of false and missed detections in obstacle detection within underground mines caused by difficulties in filtering elevated structural point clouds and insufficient ground segmentation accuracy, a multi-LiDAR obstacle detection method based on grid method for underground mines was proposed. Firstly, conditional filtering was employed to crop and denoise the point clouds. The point cloud data from multiple LiDARs, after conditional filtering, were fused and subsequently downsampled through voxelization to accomplish point cloud preprocessing. Secondly, the preprocessed point clouds were projected onto a two-dimensional grid, which was divided into near and far regions based on the distance to the vehicle. The tunnel ground and ceiling heights for each grid were then calculated separately, and the features of nearby grids and row-wise grids were updated. Based on the point cloud distribution and inter-row grid continuity, a strategy of updating the global grid characteristics was implemented from near to far and row by row, enabling precise estimation of tunnel ground and ceiling characteristics. Finally, ground segmentation was performed based on the grid features, elevated structural point clouds were filtered out from the non-ground point clouds, and Euclidean clustering was applied to the remaining point clouds to detect obstacles. Field test results demonstrated that the proposed method could effectively filter out elevated structural point clouds in uphill/downhill and sparse point cloud conditions. Detection accuracies for low-profile targets, including signal boxes, traffic cones, low supports, and vehicles reached 92.3%, 90.9%, 96.5%, and 100%, respectively. Across various tunnel conditions, the approach significantly reduces false and missed detections, achieving high obstacle detection accuracy.

     

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