AI RESEARCH

Physics Aware Neural Networks: Denoising for Magnetic Navigation

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2602.13690v2 Announce Type: replace Magnetic-anomaly navigation, leveraging small-scale variations in the Earth's magnetic field, is a promising alternative when GPS is unavailable or compromised. Airborne systems face a key challenge in extracting geomagnetic field data: the aircraft itself induces magnetic noise. Although the classical Tolles-Lawson model addresses this, it inadequately handles stochastically corrupted magnetic data required for navigation. To handle stochastic noise, we propose using two physics-based constraints: divergence-free vector fields and E(3)-equivariance.