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Navigation Using CMOS Polarization Sensor

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The navigational strategies of insects using skylight polarization are interesting for applications in autonomous agent navigation because they rely on very little information for navigation. The skylight polarization pattern for navigation varies in a systematic fashion both in plane (e-vector) and degree of polarization, depending only on the direction of the observation point relative to the angular position of the sun. This is found to be very efficient and reliable for real time navigation.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Dept, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, 110016, New Delhi, India

    Mukul Sarkar

  2. Harvest Imaging , Kleine Schoolstraat 9, 3960, Bree, Belgium

    Albert Theuwissen

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Sarkar, M., Theuwissen, A. (2013). Navigation Using CMOS Polarization Sensor. In: A Biologically Inspired CMOS Image Sensor. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 461. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34901-0_6

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