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ASCEND – India’s Autonomous Mars Surveyor Drone | IRoC-U 2026

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Created January 11, 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.

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Only robots must survive. ISRO challenges students to build an autonomous explorer like

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ASCEND. ASCEND can explore, detect targets, and recharge without human help.

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The base station is coordinate zero, the drones Mars lander. All navigation happens

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relative to this point, just like on Mars When power turns

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on, the base station wakes the drone automatically. The drone receives

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seed images of geological features it must find. The drone launches on its own,

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using cameras and AI instead of GPS. It creates a local Mars map

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