Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing

Polarization navigation is an emerging navigation technology, that exhibits significant advantages, including strong anti-interference capability and non-cumulative errors over time, making it highly promising for applications in aerospace, autonomous driving, and robotics. To address the requiremen...

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Main Authors: Yuan Li, Zhuo Liu, Xiaohui Dong, Fangchen Dong
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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description Polarization navigation is an emerging navigation technology, that exhibits significant advantages, including strong anti-interference capability and non-cumulative errors over time, making it highly promising for applications in aerospace, autonomous driving, and robotics. To address the requirements of high integration and low power consumption for tri-directional polarization navigation sensors, this study proposes a system-on-chip (SoC) design solution. The system employs the ZYNQ MPSoC (Xilinx Inc., San Jose, CA, USA) as its core, leveraging hardware acceleration on the Programmable Logic (PL) side for three-angle polarization image data acquisition, image preprocessing, and edge detection. Simultaneously, the Processing System (PS) side orchestrates task coordination, performs polarization angle resolution, and extracts the solar meridian via Hough transform. Experimental results demonstrate that the system achieves an average heading angle output time interval of 9.43 milliseconds (ms) with a mean error of 0.50°, fulfilling the real-time processing demands of mobile devices.
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spelling doaj-art-c2381e9ee03d4b0a88a1a0ea0e6446f72025-08-20T02:58:44ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202025-04-01259274410.3390/s25092744Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous ComputingYuan Li0Zhuo Liu1Xiaohui Dong2Fangchen Dong3School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, ChinaSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, ChinaSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, ChinaSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, ChinaPolarization navigation is an emerging navigation technology, that exhibits significant advantages, including strong anti-interference capability and non-cumulative errors over time, making it highly promising for applications in aerospace, autonomous driving, and robotics. To address the requirements of high integration and low power consumption for tri-directional polarization navigation sensors, this study proposes a system-on-chip (SoC) design solution. The system employs the ZYNQ MPSoC (Xilinx Inc., San Jose, CA, USA) as its core, leveraging hardware acceleration on the Programmable Logic (PL) side for three-angle polarization image data acquisition, image preprocessing, and edge detection. Simultaneously, the Processing System (PS) side orchestrates task coordination, performs polarization angle resolution, and extracts the solar meridian via Hough transform. Experimental results demonstrate that the system achieves an average heading angle output time interval of 9.43 milliseconds (ms) with a mean error of 0.50°, fulfilling the real-time processing demands of mobile devices.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/9/2744polarized lightpolarized navigation sensorZYNQheading angle solution
spellingShingle Yuan Li
Zhuo Liu
Xiaohui Dong
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Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing
Sensors
polarized light
polarized navigation sensor
ZYNQ
heading angle solution
title Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing
title_full Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing
title_fullStr Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing
title_full_unstemmed Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing
title_short Real-Time Bio-Inspired Polarization Heading Resolution System Based on ZYNQ Heterogeneous Computing
title_sort real time bio inspired polarization heading resolution system based on zynq heterogeneous computing
topic polarized light
polarized navigation sensor
ZYNQ
heading angle solution
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/9/2744
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