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Introduction to Mechatronic Systems
Published in Bogdan M. Wilamowski, J. David Irwin, Control and Mechatronics, 2018
Mechatronics is an integrated technology that synthesizes several evolving engineering disciplines and technologies, including precision mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, control algorithms, and systems thinking in the design of products and manufacturing processes. 3C (computer, communications, and consumer electronics) products, automobiles, and household appliances are all examples of mechatronic systems. Mechatronics deals with the methods of designing and manufacturing intelligent electromechanical products. It covers a wide range of application areas including most of the electronic devices used in, e.g., consumer products, instrumentation, automobile industry, machine tool industry, computer industry, aerospace industry, medical industry, robot industry, and so on.
Introduction to Modeling
Published in Clarence W. de Silva, Modeling of Dynamic Systems with Engineering Applications, 2017
A typical mechatronic system consists of a mechanical skeleton, actuators, sensors, controllers, signal conditioning/modification devices, computer/digital hardware and software, interface devices, and power sources. Different types of sensing, information acquisition and transfer are involved among all these various types of components. For example, a servomotor, which is a motor with the capability of sensory feedback for accurate generation of complex motions, consists of mechanical, electrical, and electronic components. The main mechanical components are the rotor, stator, and the bearings. The electrical components include the circuitry for the field windings and rotor windings (not in the case of permanent-magnet rotors), and circuitry for power transmission and commutation (if needed). Electronic components include those needed for sensing (e.g., optical encoder for displacement and speed sensing and tachometer for speed sensing). The overall design of a servomotor can be improved by taking a mechatronic approach.
Technology Needs for Mechatronic Systems
Published in C.W. de Silva, Mechatronic Systems, 2007
In this chapter, the multidisciplinary field of mechatronics was introduced, the technology needs for such systems were indicated, and some important issues in the design and development of a mechatronic product or system were highlighted. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary engineering field that involves a synergistic integration of several areas such as mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, control engineering, and computer engineering. Technologies of sensing, actuation, signal conditioning, interfacing, communication, and control are particularly important for mechatronic systems. Intelligent mechatronic systems (IMS) require further technologies for representation and processing of knowledge and intelligence, and particularly those technologies that impart “intelligent” characteristics to the system. The design and development of a mechatronic system will require an integrated approach to deal with the subsystems and subprocesses of a multidomain (mixed) system—specifically, an electromechanical system. The subsystems of a mechatronic system should not be designed or developed independently without addressing the system integration, subsystem interactions and matching, and the intended operation of the overall system. Such an integrated and concurrent approach will make a mechatronic design more optimal than a conventional design.
Textronics: a review of their technological aspects and applications
Published in The Journal of The Textile Institute, 2023
Mechatronics is the synergistic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacture of products and processes; in other words it is the design of intelligent machines (Acar, 1995b). Mechatronic technical textile machines are often similar to those already in use in other fields. A mechatronics engineer is trained to design the mechanical components of a product, design the electrical components (actuators, sensors, amplifiers and the control logic and algorithms) and design the computer hardware and software implementation to control the product in real-time, Figure 10 (Cetinkunt, 2015). Textile mechatronics is an interdisciplinary branch of textile engineering which focuses on the integration of mechanical of textiles with electronic, and electrical engineering systems, and includes a combination of Mechatronics robotics of textiles, electronics, computer science Mechatronics of textiles (Elnashar, 2022).
Reliability Prediction Methods for Electronic Devices: A State-of-the-art Review
Published in IETE Technical Review, 2022
Vinay Kumar, Lalit Kumar Singh, Anil Kumar Tripathi
In this review, we have made efforts to study and describe the fundamental issues related to reliability prediction of modern electronic components and equiments. The review has mentioned in brief the attempts which have been undertaken for developing standard methods for reliability prediction of electronic devices. Broadly, these methods are divides into empirical and PoF-based reliability prediction methods. Due to higher computation power of the system, nowadays data driven and state space modelling techniques are used frequently in to simulate the developed models. In addition, one of the issues is the creation of unifying or combining models that integrate the best features from other approaches into a new hybrid approach. It is evident from the survey conducted that the methodology available, whether empirical or physics-of-failure or a novel hybrid, must be well managed. It is predicted that future models and methods will emerge from on-going research. Due to the advancement of technology day by day, mechatronics components are used for various critical systems. The mechatronics component is comprised of mechanical, electronic, and software items. The future approaches and models are expected to develop for the mechatronics system, which includes mechanical part reliability data (MRPD), electronic part reliability data (ERPD), and software part reliability data (SRPD).
Sensing, smart and sustainable product development (S3 product) reference framework
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2019
Jhonattan Miranda, Roberto Pérez-Rodríguez, Vicente Borja, Paul K. Wright, Arturo Molina
Mechatronic products are increasingly needed in our lives and in the manufacturing sector. Thus, most of the product innovation in the marketplace corresponds to mechatronic systems. Mechatronic systems offer numerous advantages over traditional products: improved quality, lower costs, enhanced capabilities and capacities and so on. Mechatronics is defined as the synergetic combination of the mechanical, electrical/electronic and software domains to produce enhanced products, processes or systems. In other words, mechatronics is an interdisciplinary engineering field concerned with the design and development of systems with certain intelligent or autonomous functions (Varadan, Vinoy, and Gopalakrishnan 2006; Carryer, Ohline, and Kenny 2011). The technical committee on mechatronic systems of the IFAC describes mechatronics as ‘a synergistic approach to utilise advanced control, sensing and actuation methodologies in a variety of applications across many fields such as robotics and automation, motion control, automotive systems, biomedical systems, micro and nanoscale systems and information storage systems’ (Moheimani 2016).