ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments

This paper proposes a digital twin platform for Mars environment based on NVIDIA Isaac Sim to create a unique random environment with multi-scale fine-grained terrain features through programmed terrain generation and asset management. The SiaT-Hough module was added to the ORB-SLAM2 system for Mars...

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Main Authors: Wei Liu, Gang Wan, Jia Liu, Dianwei Cong
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11071669/
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description This paper proposes a digital twin platform for Mars environment based on NVIDIA Isaac Sim to create a unique random environment with multi-scale fine-grained terrain features through programmed terrain generation and asset management. The SiaT-Hough module was added to the ORB-SLAM2 system for Mars rock segmentation and 3D modeling, as well as rock counting. We propose a lightweight Siamese Transformer (SiaT) network combined with Hough transform for small sample semantic segmentation tasks, especially for rock counting in Mars exploration scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that the SiaT-Hough model achieves an average segmentation accuracy of 87.8<sc>6</sc>% and a processing speed of 57.34 FPS on the Mars simulation dataset, striking an optimal balance between accuracy and real-time performance. In addition, we also carried out 3D reconstruction positioning accuracy evaluation and point cloud quality evaluation, and the positioning absolute track error on the two public data sets was less than 0.1m, 0.0639m and 0.0106m, respectively. The Pearson linear correlation coefficient of mean point cloud mass in Mars rendering dataset reaches 0.852, and the mean relative error of rock count is 8.63%, which proves the feasibility of the improved ORB-SLAM2 system for rock count in Mars environment.
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spelling doaj-art-7badae1c554d4e24b04fba04fb47ebc42025-08-20T03:13:55ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-011312782412783610.1109/ACCESS.2025.358591811071669ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian EnvironmentsWei Liu0Gang Wan1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5166-9439Jia Liu2Dianwei Cong3Department of Surveying and Mapping and Space Environment, Space Engineering University, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Surveying and Mapping and Space Environment, Space Engineering University, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Surveying and Mapping and Space Environment, Space Engineering University, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Surveying and Mapping and Space Environment, Space Engineering University, Beijing, ChinaThis paper proposes a digital twin platform for Mars environment based on NVIDIA Isaac Sim to create a unique random environment with multi-scale fine-grained terrain features through programmed terrain generation and asset management. The SiaT-Hough module was added to the ORB-SLAM2 system for Mars rock segmentation and 3D modeling, as well as rock counting. We propose a lightweight Siamese Transformer (SiaT) network combined with Hough transform for small sample semantic segmentation tasks, especially for rock counting in Mars exploration scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that the SiaT-Hough model achieves an average segmentation accuracy of 87.8<sc>6</sc>% and a processing speed of 57.34 FPS on the Mars simulation dataset, striking an optimal balance between accuracy and real-time performance. In addition, we also carried out 3D reconstruction positioning accuracy evaluation and point cloud quality evaluation, and the positioning absolute track error on the two public data sets was less than 0.1m, 0.0639m and 0.0106m, respectively. The Pearson linear correlation coefficient of mean point cloud mass in Mars rendering dataset reaches 0.852, and the mean relative error of rock count is 8.63%, which proves the feasibility of the improved ORB-SLAM2 system for rock count in Mars environment.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11071669/Mars explorationdigital twinORB-SLAM2semantic segmentation
spellingShingle Wei Liu
Gang Wan
Jia Liu
Dianwei Cong
ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments
IEEE Access
Mars exploration
digital twin
ORB-SLAM2
semantic segmentation
title ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments
title_full ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments
title_fullStr ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments
title_full_unstemmed ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments
title_short ORB-SLAM2 System Enhanced With SiaT-Hough Module on Mars Digital Twin Platform: For Rock Counting and 3D Reconstruction in Martian Environments
title_sort orb slam2 system enhanced with siat hough module on mars digital twin platform for rock counting and 3d reconstruction in martian environments
topic Mars exploration
digital twin
ORB-SLAM2
semantic segmentation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11071669/
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