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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by fjdncncndb on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:37AM (#27312705)
I would imagine you could reuse code from a flying drone on Earth.
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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by ghhhhhk8899jj on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:54AM (#27313137)
There's no reason to assume that code would contain fewer bugs.
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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by gscott on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:17AM (#27312947)
Next time they need to send up gps sats to orbit Mars...
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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by serf on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:28AM (#27313012)
visual odometry is a fairly common feature for earth-creations (even toy drones) operating in GPS-denied environments.

We have plenty of faux-mars environments to practice these techniques on. NASA even has their own.

many of the toy indoor-use drones use such techniques for attitude/altitude-hold features when under a roof.

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