SkyPole: a geolocation algorithm based on polarized vision without using astronomical ephemerides
Résumé
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are widely used due to their easy access to outdoor GNSS signals
and their spatial precision. However, such systems are sensitive to jamming and spoofing. Simple and robust
navigation strategies can be found in animals deprived by essence of any GNSS system. Studies have shown that
animals like bees or ants utilize the sky’s polarization pattern for navigation. We recently proposed a method
inspired by migratory birds, which calibrate their magnetic compass through the celestial rotation of night stars
or the daytime polarization pattern. By considering the temporal properties of the sky’s polarization pattern as
a relevant navigation information, we developed a bio-inspired method to find the geographical north bearing
and the observer’s latitude, requiring only skylight polarization observations during the day. To reduce the noise
susceptibility of our method, we added a pre-processing step using a least square method based on skylight polarization models, and a segmentation process based on a convolutional autoencoder neural network, trained
with simulated data.
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