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Recent snafu on Mars entailing the NASA autonomous helicopter named Ingenuity provides some important eye-opening lessons for the advent of AI self-driving cars.

Ingenuity's sixth flight was planned as one of its most daring excursions to date, programmed to travel over 700 feet in total and take aerial photos of Mars.

28 MAY 2021 During its sixth flight on the red planet, the Ingenuity helicopter experienced a little mishap - but, thanks to planning and built-in failsafes, it survived to fly another day.   This is actually great news, because it demonstrates the multiple ways in which the vehicle is robust to errors - as well as giving engineers here at home an opportunity to patch them. The event took place on 22 May 2021 - the 91st Martian day of the Perseverance mission. The sky was clear and bright, pe...

The helicopter managed to land about 16 feet from its intended touchdown site.

The helicopter managed to land about 16 feet from its intended touchdown site.

By Bill Galluccio May 28, 2021 The helicopter on NASAs Mars rover Perseverance had a scare during its sixth test flight. The Ingenuity helicopter ran into problems shortly after taking off when a navigation error caused it to lose control while it was 33 feet off the ground. Officials at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the issue occurred when a photo taken from an onboard camera failed to register in the crafts navigation system. That caused a chain reaction, as all subsequent images loa...

The MarsIngenuity Helicopter completed its sixth flight last Saturday – though with a slight hiccup.  In a blog post Thursday, NASAsSouthern California-basedJet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) detailed the events surrounding the in-flight "anomaly."  Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Pilot Håvard Grip explained that the goal of the mission was to "expand the flight envelope and demonstrate aerial-imaging capabilities by taking stereo images of a region of interest to the west." To do so, the rot...

Ingenuity made its sixth flight on the Red Planet on May 22, NASA confirmed It traveled up 33ft before moving 492ft southwest at about nine miles per hour It travelled 49ft south while capturing images of a region of interest in the west  NASA says this second leg is where the system encountered stability issues This was caused by one missing image from the navcam that the onboard AI uses to determine where the helicopter is, how high it is and how fast it is going 

The helicopter managed to land about 16 feet from its intended touchdown site.