Abstract

The brains of some insects can encode and decode polarization information and obtain heading angle information. Referring to the encoding ability of insects, exponential function encoding is designed to improve the stability of the polarized light compass artificial neural network. However, in the decoding process, only neurons with the largest activation degree are used for decoding (maximum value decoding), so the heading information contained in other neurons is not used. Therefore, average value decoding (AVD) and weighted AVD are proposed to use the heading information contained in multiple neurons to determine the heading. In addition, concerning the phenomenon of threshold activation of insect neurons, threshold value decoding (TVD) and weighted TVD are proposed, which can effectively eliminate the interference of neurons with low activation. Moreover, this paper proposes to improve the heading determination accuracy of the artificial neural network through pre-training. The simulation and experimental results show that the new, to the best of our knowledge, decoding methods and pre-training can effectively improve the heading determination accuracy of the artificial neural network.

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