Welcome to the GTMARS project. In 2000, the American Helicopter Society requested a proposal for the design of a rotorcraft for the exploration of the planet Mars. The RFP called for 3 entries; Airframe design, Propulsion and Flight Controls. The reports below describe the 3 entries to this International Graduate Design Competition. The Flight Control and Propulsion designs won 1st place whereas the Air Vehcile design took 2nd place.
- Air Vehicle Design (pdf 6mb) (word 16mb)
- Brian Thompson, Masayoshi Senga, Christian Grinsell
- Propulsion (pdf 13mb) (word 28mb)
- Roberto Salinas, Shayne Kondor
- Flight Control and Computer Architecutre (pdf 4mb) (ppt 4mb)
- Suresh Kannan, Aaron Kahn, Ilkay Yavrucuk
The faculty advisor was Prof. Schrage who may be contacted at this address
Prof. Daniel P. Schrage.
270 Ferst Drive
School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
404.894.6257
