Development of the model hovercraft

Abstract

This article presents the hardware requirements and the functionality of the hovercraft vehicle designed by the A-Team for the 9th "Hungarians on Mars" student competition. The article focuses on the electronic and hardware development of the vehicle as well as the design of the hovercraft controller. The article provides a detailed description of the structure of the hovercraft, and We introduce the basic mechanical model for the hovercraft. When we show the mechanical structure we collect the actuators and we would like to introduce the electric hardware which able to control these actuators. The main controller of the hovercraft is the FPGA embedded SoC (System on Chip) development board. This board provides the control signal to the electric hardware and it can move this vehicle. Finally, we introduce the own-built hovercraft created for the 9th "Hungarians on Mars".