Hovering In The Air

This is a final year project I supervised. The objective is to identify the dynamics of the hovercraft. Technical speaking, hovercraft is considered to be nondrifless, 2nd order nonholonomic (underactuated) system. (What a mouthful !!!). In layman's term, its dynamics is very difficult to quantify mathematically. This vehicle is employed as a prototyping platform for advanced guidance and controls algorithms.