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[Submitted on 14 Oct 2026] Title:Navigation by Skylight Polarization via Rayleigh Model Optimization on a Road Vehicle View a PDF of the paper titled Navigation by Skylight Polarization via Rayleigh Model Optimization on a Road Vehicle, by Ben Potter and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Reliable absolute heading estimation is critical for road-vehicle navigation, particularly when magnetic, inertial, or GNSS-based references are degraded. This paper presents a skylight polarization navigation method that estimates vehicle heading by globally optimizing a Rayleigh sky model against measurements from a division-of-focal-plane polarimetric camera. The proposed framework combines a pinhole camera model, a single-scattering Rayleigh polarization model, and a solar position algorithm to synthesize the expected full image angle of polarization distribution for candidate vehicle states. A degree of polarization weighted root mean square error objective function compares measured and simulated polarization patterns, allowing the estimator to use all available sky information while attenuating low confidence pixels caused by clouds, buildings, foliage, and other depolarizing occlusions. Experimental evaluation is performed using three urban road vehicle trajectories collected with a roof mounted polarimetric camera and a high precision dual-antenna GNSS/INS reference system. Results show sub-degree RMS yaw error across all trajectories, ranging from $0.718^{\circ}$ to $0.889^{\circ}$. Compared with representative feature-based and model-based polarization navigation methods, the proposed approach reduces RMS heading error by up to 87% and demonstrates improved robustness to partial sky occlusion. Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY) ACM classes: I.2.9 Cite as: arXiv:2610.20797 [cs.RO] (or arXiv:2610.20797v1 [cs.RO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.20797 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ben Potter [view email] [v1] Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:41:52 UTC (7,661 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Navigation by Skylight Polarization via Rayleigh Model Optimization on a Road Vehicle, by Ben Potter and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.RO new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.SY eess eess.SY References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)