A Coal Flow Point Cloud Sampling and Segmentation Algorithm for Belt Conveyors Based on Improved Graph Laplacian Operator

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Abstract Binocular vision-based point cloud reconstruction is pivotal for real-time detection of coal flow on belt conveyors. It plays a critical role in ensuring the safe and energy-efficient operation of such conveyors. However, during binocular vision detection, the coal flow point cloud exhibits highly complex morphology, and coal lump edges remain notoriously challenging to segment. These issues significantly degrade the accuracy and real-time performance of point cloud reconstruction. To address this issue, a coal flow point cloud sampling and segmentation method for belt conveyors based on an improved graph Laplacian operator is proposed. Specifically, the captured coal flow point cloud is processed using a locally adaptive sampling method integrated with an information entropy optimization function. Meanwhile, a Laplace-PointNN model is constructed to extract features from the coal flow point cloud and establish a feature library. These steps enable precise segmentation of point clouds at the edges of coal lumps, thereby facilitating the completion of coal flow point cloud reconstruction. Experimental results show that the proposed method has an average relative error of 3.48%, and an 84.5% increase in detection speed with an average running time of 0.58 seconds. The results demonstrate that the algorithm can realize real-time detection of coal flow on belt conveyors, ensuring their safe and energy-efficient operation.
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It plays a critical role in ensuring the safe and energy-efficient operation of such conveyors. However, during binocular vision detection, the coal flow point cloud exhibits highly complex morphology, and coal lump edges remain notoriously challenging to segment. These issues significantly degrade the accuracy and real-time performance of point cloud reconstruction. To address this issue, a coal flow point cloud sampling and segmentation method for belt conveyors based on an improved graph Laplacian operator is proposed. Specifically, the captured coal flow point cloud is processed using a locally adaptive sampling method integrated with an information entropy optimization function. Meanwhile, a Laplace-PointNN model is constructed to extract features from the coal flow point cloud and establish a feature library. These steps enable precise segmentation of point clouds at the edges of coal lumps, thereby facilitating the completion of coal flow point cloud reconstruction. Experimental results show that the proposed method has an average relative error of 3.48%, and an 84.5% increase in detection speed with an average running time of 0.58 seconds. The results demonstrate that the algorithm can realize real-time detection of coal flow on belt conveyors, ensuring their safe and energy-efficient operation. Belt conveyor Point cloud sampling Point cloud segmentation Laplacian operator Non-parametric network Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Under Review Version 1 posted Reviewers agreed at journal 13 Oct, 2025 Reviewers invited by journal 11 Oct, 2025 Editor assigned by journal 30 Sep, 2025 Submission checks completed at journal 30 Sep, 2025 First submitted to journal 28 Sep, 2025 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. 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