Study on the Estimation of Ore Loading Quantity of Truck Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Lin BI; Yalong LI; Zhaohong GUO

doi:10.11872/j.issn.1005-2518.2019.01.112

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11872/j.issn.1005-2518.2019.01.112

Study on the Estimation of Ore Loading Quantity of Truck Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Lin BI ,
Yalong LI ,
Zhaohong GUO ^,^*

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1. School of Resources and Safety Engineering，Central South University，Changsha 410083，Hunan，China

Received date: 2017-09-15

Revised date: 2018-03-16

Online published: 2019-03-19

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In the daily production and management of mines， the load measurement of trucks is an important work.The ore loading quantity of truck is usually counted by manual power， but the subjectivity of artificial statistics may affect the performance evaluation of truck drivers.Some mines used laser scanning technique or loadometer to measure the volume of ore accurately， but the equipment is expensive.The method of binocular stereo vision is used to measure the volume of the stacked material in China.By taking the photo of the stacked material at two angles in the same scene， the position of the feature points in the scene is matched， and the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature point are calculated， so as to calculate the volume of stacked material.The factors affecting the accuracy of measurement include the accuracy of camera calibration， the accuracy of stereo matching， and the error introduced by the discretization method of calculation of stacked material，etc.When the truck is loading ore， there will be a situation in which the truck body wall obscures the lower part of the ore pile，and the background of the picture is relatively complicated.In order to save cost and improve the accuracy of measurement， the research based on deep convolutional neural network was conducted to estimate the ore loading quantity in this paper.It is inconvenient to get the pictures in natural scene， so use the three-dimensional physics engine naming Chrono to simulate a trunk of ore falling into the truck， generating images of truck with different ore quantity and different ore distribution areas.The truck model was made by 3DMAX software and imported into Chrono， and the ore heap was a cube randomly generated within a certain size range.A total of 2 800 sample data were obtained for the entire experiment.The parameters were adjusted based on the network structure used to test the cifar-10 data set in Caffe.The specific training parameters are set as follows， the maximum iteration number MaxIter is 4 000， the learning rate α is 0.001， the momentum factor μ is 0.9， the regular term coefficient WeightDecay is 0.004 and the optimization algorithm adopts Nestedov.Then a deep convolutional neural network was constructed.The generated samples were divided into training sets and test sets according to the ratio of 3 $∶$ 1， and the label values of the samples were normalized.Then the Euclidean distance between predicted value and real value of the last layer of neuron was used as the cost function to fit the generated sample data.Finally， the convolution kernel and feature map was visualized to analyze the process of convolution neural network realizing the estimation of ore quantity.The image showed that the features extracted by each convolution kernel are different， and the convolution kernel extracting the ore information effectively ensures the reliability of the model for ore quantity estimation.It was proved that deep convolution neural network constructed in this paper has good accuracy in the experimental test set. The prediction error is less than 4 $%$ for most of the test sample and the prediction error is less than10 $%$ for almost all test sample， which is completely acceptable in practical applications.So it not only indicates that the network model is good enough to fit the experimental data set， but also proves the feasibility of using deep learning to estimate the ore loading quantity in actual scene and deep learning method has a good application prospect.

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Lin BI , Yalong LI , Zhaohong GUO . Study on the Estimation of Ore Loading Quantity of Truck Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network[J]. Gold Science and Technology, 2019 , 27(1) : 112 -120 . DOI: 10.11872/j.issn.1005-2518.2019.01.112

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