Dropter - a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of StarTiger. Its purpose is to smooth descent of mobile devices moving to safe areas of the rocky surface of Mars. H5>
StarTiger is a program ESA, when in one well-equipped research center is going to highly qualified team of experts from different fields, they put complex technical problems and provides a time limit for its decision. Last Team StarTiger was posted at the research center Airbus Defence & Space in Bremen (Germany), which included engineers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Portuguese aviation company Spin.Works and Poznan University of Technology. Select the project in the period of 8 months, the scientists were given the task - create resets the drone visual navigation, the ability to detect and avoid interference. Drone should detect the most suitable for the landing place, determine the height and lower the rover on cables.