The bionic orientation mechanism in the skylight polarization pattern

Beijing Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 616-620

  Yan, Lei ^a   Guan, Guixia ^a,b,c   Chen, Jiabin ^c   Wu, Taixia ^a   Shao, Xuan ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Equipment Office of 73042 Troops   (China)

Author keywords

Direction angle; Navigation coordinate; Polarized light; Solar meridian

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349100236     PISSN: 04798023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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