ASCEND – India’s Autonomous Mars Surveyor Drone | IRoC-U 2026
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Learn how the ASCEND drone tackles the ISRO IRoC-U autonomous drone challenge using visual SLAM and AI vision to map Mars without GPS.
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On Mars, there is no GPS, no pilot, or technician.
Only robots must survive. ISRO challenges students to build an autonomous explorer like
ASCEND. ASCEND can explore, detect targets, and recharge without human help.
The base station is coordinate zero, the drones Mars lander. All navigation happens
relative to this point, just like on Mars When power turns
on, the base station wakes the drone automatically. The drone receives
seed images of geological features it must find. The drone launches on its own,
using cameras and AI instead of GPS. It creates a local Mars map
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