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Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence

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Methods for the Segmentation of Reticular Structures Using 3D LiDAR Data: A Comparative Evaluation

Jul 28, 2025

This study addresses the challenge of autonomous navigation for climbing robots on metallic truss infrastructure (e.g., bridges, towers), focusing on semantic segmentation of traversable surfaces in 3D LiDAR point clouds. We propose an analytical algorithm based on eigenvalue decomposition of local planar patches in point clouds and conduct a systematic benchmark against leading deep learning models—PointNet, PointNet++, MinkUNet34C, and PointTransformerV3. Results show that the analytical method achieves near-state-of-the-art accuracy with minimal parameters and high computational efficiency; PointTransformerV3 attains the best performance with 97% mIoU. Crucially, this work is the first to characterize the accuracy–efficiency trade-off between analytical and learning-based approaches on complex, mesh-like truss structures, demonstrating their complementary strengths. The findings establish a deployable pathway toward real-time, robust navigation for robots operating in unstructured metallic truss environments.

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Methods for the Segmentation of Reticular Structures Using 3D LiDAR Data: A Comparative Evaluation

Jul 28, 2025

This study addresses the challenge of autonomous navigation for climbing robots on metallic truss infrastructure (e.g., bridges, towers), focusing on semantic segmentation of traversable surfaces in 3D LiDAR point clouds. We propose an analytical algorithm based on eigenvalue decomposition of local planar patches in point clouds and conduct a systematic benchmark against leading deep learning models—PointNet, PointNet++, MinkUNet34C, and PointTransformerV3. Results show that the analytical method achieves near-state-of-the-art accuracy with minimal parameters and high computational efficiency; PointTransformerV3 attains the best performance with 97% mIoU. Crucially, this work is the first to characterize the accuracy–efficiency trade-off between analytical and learning-based approaches on complex, mesh-like truss structures, demonstrating their complementary strengths. The findings establish a deployable pathway toward real-time, robust navigation for robots operating in unstructured metallic truss environments.

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