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Mission / Mars

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

NASA / JPL · 2020–2024 · also Ingenuity, Mars Helicopter

Technology demonstrator that made the first powered, controlled flights on another planet, completing 72 flights between 2021 and 2024.

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Papers: 75
Named in: 12 in title · 63 in abstract · 37 in keywords

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Surface Mobility & Terramechanics58
Perception & State Estimation25
Motion Planning & Navigation10
Manipulation & Grasping7
Design, Mechanisms & Hardware6
Guidance, Dynamics & Control4

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IEEE Aerospace13
AIAA SciTech4
IROS4
AIAA SPACE / ASCEND3
NASA Technical Report3
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Perseverance (Mars 2020)39
Curiosity (MSL)7
Mars Sample Return5
Dragonfly2
Artemis1
InSight1

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4 papers naming Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Specified and Analyzed with the Real-time Mode-aware Dataflow Model

Guillaume Roumage, Selma Azaiez, Cyril Faure, Stéphane LouisePreprint 2025 1 citedJan 13, 2025

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Guidance, Dynamics & Control Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Jan 13, 2025

Motivations and Preliminary Design for Mid-Air Deployment of a Science Rotorcraft on Mars

Jeff Delaune, Jacob Izraelevitz, Larry A. Young, William Rapin +17 moreAIAA SPACE / ASCEND 2020 8 citedOct 13, 2020

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Guidance, Dynamics & Control Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Oct 13, 2020

Design and Model Predictive Control of Mars Coaxial Quadrotor

Akash Patel, Avijit Banerjee, Bjorn Lindqvist, Christoforos Kanellakis +1 moreIEEE Aerospace 2021 18 citedSep 14, 2021

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Guidance, Dynamics & Control Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Sep 14, 2021

Quadrupeds for Planetary Exploration: Field Testing Control Algorithms on an Active Volcano

Shubham Vyas, Franek Stark, Rohit Kumar, Hannah Isermann +5 moreASTRA 2025 1 citedOct 21, 2025

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Guidance, Dynamics & Control Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Oct 21, 2025