LunaNav: Lunar Robotic Exploration

LunaNav extends IPNL’s multi-sensor positioning expertise into a new domain: lunar robotic exploration. The Moon has no GNSS, no atmosphere, and a fundamentally different visibility regime than Earth’s urban canyons — but the underlying problem of robust positioning from a sparse, locally available sensor set carries directly over.

Why it matters. This is the lab’s first foray into planetary robotics. It connects the long-running research on GNSS-denied indoor positioning, factor-graph estimation, and multi-sensor fusion to a frontier application domain that is gaining national-program attention.

Funding. PolyU Research Centre for Unmanned Autonomous Systems (RCUAS), HK$500k (PI).