Geometric Feature Extraction of Point Cloud of Chemical Reactor Based on Dynamic Graph Convolution Neural Network

Zhizhong Xing; Shuanfeng Zhao; Wei Guo; Xiaojun Guo

doi:10.1021/acsomega.1c02213

Geometric Feature Extraction of Point Cloud of Chemical Reactor Based on Dynamic Graph Convolution Neural Network

ACS Omega. 2021 Aug 12;6(33):21410-21424. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c02213. eCollection 2021 Aug 24.

Authors

Zhizhong Xing¹, Shuanfeng Zhao¹, Wei Guo¹, Xiaojun Guo²

Affiliations

¹ College of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710054, China.
² School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510641, China.

Abstract

Geometric features are an important factor for the classification of drugs and other transport objects in chemical reactors. The moving speed of drugs and other transport objects in chemical reactors is fast, and it is difficult to obtain their features by imaging and other methods. In order to avoid the mistaken and missed distribution of drugs and other objects, a method of extracting geometric features of the drug's point cloud in a chemical reactor based on a dynamic graph convolution neural network (DGCNN) is proposed. In this study, we first use MATLAB R2019a to add a random number of noise points in each point cloud file and label the point cloud. Second, k-nearest neighbor (KNN) is used to construct the adjacency relationship of all nodes, and the effect of DGCNN under different k values and the confusion matrix under the optimal k value are analyzed. Finally, we compare the effect of DGCNN with PointNet and PointNet++. The experimental results show that when k is 20, the accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score of DGCNN are higher than those of other k values, while the training time is much shorter than that of k = 25, 30, and 35; in addition, the effect of DGCNN in extracting geometric features of the point cloud is better than that of PointNet and PointNet++. The results show that it is feasible to use DGCNN to analyze the geometric characteristics of drug point clouds in a chemical reactor. This study fills the gap of the end-to-end extraction method for a point cloud's corresponding geometric features without a data set. In addition, this study promotes the institutionalization, standardization, and intelligent design of safe production and management of drugs and other objects in the chemical reactor, and it has positive significance for the production cost and resource utilization of the whole pharmaceutical process. At the same time, it provides a new method for the intelligent processing of point cloud data.