Autonomous Hovercraft

This hovercraft was created for my ENGR290 "Engineering Team Project Design" course. Due to COVID-19, we were not able to implement this design in real hardware, but instead created it in the CoppeliaSim (V-REP) physics simulator. The challenge was to create a hovercraft that was able to traverse a course autonomously as quickly as possible, using either proximity sensors or vision sensors, while using the least amount of parts possible. The hovercraft was mathematically designed using our knowledge of kinematics and fluid mechanics learned throughout the course. An Arduino Uno was used as the controller, and the code for parsing the sensor data and the autonomous traversal algorithm was written in C++.